Sahibzada Farhan will lead Pakistan at men’s cricket at the 2026 Asian Games.
Sahibzada Farhan to lead Pakistan at the Asian Games
The Pakistan Cricket Board named their squad for men’s cricket at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, to be played between September 13 and October 4 at the Korogi Athletic Park in the Aichi Prefecture.
Farhan will lead the squad that also includes four men who are yet to play in T20Is – Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Maaz Sadaqat, and Saad Masood. Of the 15 members, 14 are part of the NCA White-Ball Camp that will commence in Lahore from June 15.
From 46 T20Is, Farhan has 1,305 runs at a strike rate of 137. In 2026, he famously set a new record for most runs in a single edition of the T20 World Cup (383 runs, at 160). In all T20, his nine hundreds are the joint fifth-most of all time.
Men’s cricket at the 2026 Asian Games will feature 10 teams – hosts Japan, five Full Members (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan), and four qualified teams (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal, and Oman).
Pakistan won the gold medal at men’s cricket in both Guangzhou 2010 and Incheon 2014 before finishing fourth in Hangzhou 2022.
Pakistan squad for Asian Games 2026 – men’s cricket
Sahibzada Farhan (c), Abdul Samad (vc), Usman Khan (wk), Abrar Ahmed, Ahmed Daniyal, Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Arafat Minhas, Haider Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Maaz Sadaqat, Mohammad Salman Mirza, Saad Masood, Saim Ayub, Sufyan Muqeem.
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)
