Sahibzada Farhan will lead the Pakistan team in the Asian Games 2026, set to take place in Aichi-Nagoya in Japan from 19 September to 4 October.
The 10-team Men’s T20I event will be played at Korogi Athletic Park in Aichi Prefecture.
The men’s cricket event will commence on 24 September, while the medal matches will be played on 3 October.
The 30-year-old has featured in 46 T20Is for Pakistan, scoring 1,305 runs, including two centuries and 10 half-centuries. Abdul Samad, who has played five T20Is for Pakistan has been named vice-captain of the side.
Among the 15-member squad, Akif Javed, Ali Raza, MaazSadaqat and Saad Masood are the four players yet to represent Pakistan in the T20I format.
Additionally, 14 of the 15 players selected for the Asian Games squad are part of the NCA White-Ball Camp, which is set to commence in Lahore from Monday, 15 June.
Pakistan squad: Sahibzada Farhan (captain), Abdul Samad (vice-captain), Abrar Ahmed, Ahmed Daniyal, Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Arafat Minhas, Haider Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Maaz Sadaqat, Mohammad Salman Mirza, Saad Masood, Saim Ayub, SufyanMoqim and Usman Khan (wicket-keeper)
Support staff: Mike Hesson (head coach), Ashley Noffke(bowling coach), Shane McDermott (fielding coach), Muhammad Tahir (physiotherapist), Imran Ullah (trainer), Usman Hashmi (analyst-cum-team operations coordinator)
Women's team to tour SL
Pakistan women’s team will tour Sri Lanka for a six-match white-ball series scheduled to take place in Hambantota later next month. All six matches of the series will be played at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium.
The three ODIs, scheduled to take place on 23, 25 and 28 July are part of the ICC Women’s Championship 2025-29. Pakistan are currently occupying second place in the Women’s Championship standings, having won four of their six matches so far and earned eight points. New Zealand currently lead the Championship table with 13 points, having played three more matches than Pakistan.
On the tour, Pakistan will also feature in three T20Is, which will be staged on 31 July, 2 August and 4 August. Both Pakistan and Sri Lanka women’s teams are currently in the UK to take part in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, which begins on 12 June.
Head-to-head, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have faced each other in 21 T20Is. Pakistan have won 11 matches, while Sri Lanka have emerged victorious on nine occasions, with one match ending in no result. Similarly, in the ODI format, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have played 34 matches against each other. Pakistan have won 11 matches and lost 22, while one match ended in no result.
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