Sahibzada Farhan will lead the Pakistan Males’s Staff within the Asian Video games 2026. Picture: AFP
LONDON:
Sahibzada Farhan will lead the Pakistan group within the Asian Video games 2026, set to happen in Aichi-Nagoya in Japan from 19 September to 4 October.
The ten-team Males’s T20I occasion can be performed at Korogi Athletic Park in Aichi Prefecture.
The lads’s cricket occasion will start on 24 September, whereas the medal matches can be performed on 3 October.
The 30-year-old has featured in 46 T20Is for Pakistan, scoring 1,305 runs, together with two centuries and 10 half-centuries. Abdul Samad, who has performed 5 T20Is for Pakistan has been named vice-captain of the facet.
Among the many 15-member squad, Akif Javed, Ali Raza, MaazSadaqat and Saad Masood are the 4 gamers but to symbolize Pakistan within the T20I format.
Moreover, 14 of the 15 gamers chosen for the Asian Video games squad are a part of the NCA White-Ball Camp, which is ready to start 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)
Help employees: Mike Hesson (head coach), Ashley Noffke(bowling coach), Shane McDermott (fielding coach), Muhammad Tahir (physiotherapist), Imran Ullah (coach), Usman Hashmi (analyst-cum-team operations coordinator)
Ladies’s group to tour SL
Pakistan girls’s group will tour Sri Lanka for a six-match white-ball sequence scheduled to happen in Hambantota later subsequent month. All six matches of the sequence can be performed on the Mahinda Rajapaksa Worldwide Cricket Stadium.
The three ODIs, scheduled to happen on 23, 25 and 28 July are a part of the ICC Ladies’s Championship 2025-29. Pakistan are at present occupying second place within the Ladies’s Championship standings, having gained 4 of their six matches up to now and earned eight factors. New Zealand at present lead the Championship desk with 13 factors, having performed three extra matches than Pakistan.
On the tour, Pakistan can even characteristic in three T20Is, which can be staged on 31 July, 2 August and 4 August. Each Pakistan and Sri Lanka girls’s groups are at present within the UK to participate within the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup, which begins on 12 June.
Head-to-head, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have confronted one another in 21 T20Is. Pakistan have gained 11 matches, whereas Sri Lanka have emerged victorious on 9 events, with one match ending in no consequence. Equally, within the ODI format, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have performed 34 matches in opposition to one another. Pakistan have gained 11 matches and misplaced 22, whereas one match led to no consequence.
