{"id":114863,"date":"2026-06-10T09:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=114863"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:40:29","slug":"sahibzada-farhan-to-be-pakistan-t20-team-captain-15-member-squad-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/sahibzada-farhan-to-be-pakistan-t20-team-captain-15-member-squad-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2026: Sahibzada Farhan to be Pakistan T20 team captain, 15-member squad announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The leadership of the Pakistan T20 team for the Asian Games 2026 has been handed over to Sahibzada Farhan.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) says that a 15-member squad has been announced for the Asian Games, Sahibzada Farhan will lead the team.<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s T20 International competitions in the<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/south-asian-games-to-be-held-in-pakistan-in-jan-2026\/\"> Asian Games 2026<\/a> will begin in Aichi, Japan from September 24, and the cricket medal competitions in the Asian Games will be held on October 3.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-114866 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/435680_4518355_updates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/435680_4518355_updates.jpg 557w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/435680_4518355_updates-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/435680_4518355_updates.avif 557w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/435680_4518355_updates-239x300.avif 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The PCB says that Abdul Samad will serve as vice-captain along with the 30-year-old Sahibzada Farhan.<\/p>\n<p>Sahibzada Farhan has scored 1305 runs in 46 T20 International matches for Pakistan, including 2 centuries and 10 half-centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Moaz Sadaqat and Saad Masood are looking forward to playing T20 International for Pakistan for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Asian Games 2026: Sahibzada Farhan will be the captain of Pakistan T20 team, 15-member squad announced<br \/>\nPhoto: PCB<br \/>\n14 out of the 15 players of the Asian Games squad will also be part of the white ball camp starting in Lahore from June 15.<\/p>\n<p>National team squad<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s squad includes captain Sahibzada Farhan, vice-captain Abdul Samad, Abrar Ahmed, Ahmed Daniyal, Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Arafat Minhas, Haider Ali and Hassan Nawaz.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this, Moaz Sadaqat, Muhammad Salman Mirza, Saad Masood, Saim Ayub, Sufyan Muqeem and Usman Khan are also part of the squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The leadership of the Pakistan T20 team for the Asian Games 2026 has been handed over to Sahibzada Farhan. In this regard, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) says that a 15-member squad has been announced for the Asian Games, Sahibzada Farhan will lead the team. The men&#8217;s T20 International competitions in the Asian Games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":86493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,6],"tags":[42857,31381],"class_list":["post-114863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-sports","tag-pakistan-t20-team-captain","tag-sahibzada-farhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114868,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114863\/revisions\/114868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}