{"id":98370,"date":"2026-01-25T11:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=98370"},"modified":"2026-01-25T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T07:09:25","slug":"pakistan-announces-squad-for-icc-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-announces-squad-for-icc-t20-world-cup-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan announces squad for ICC T20 World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Pakistan&#8217;s squad for the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistans-complete-fixtures-for-icc-t20-world-cup-2026\/\">ICC T20 World Cup<\/a> has been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Salman Ali Agha has been appointed captain of the 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The announced squad includes Faheem Ashraf, Khawaja Muhammad Nafi, Muhammad Salman Mirza, Sahibzada Farhan, Usman Tariq, Abrar Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this, Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Muhammad Nawaz, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Usman Khan, Saim Ayub, Shadab Khan and Naseem Shah are also part of the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan will start its World Cup campaign against the Netherlands on February 7, the T20 World Cup matches will be held from February 7 to March 8.<\/p>\n<p>Before the T20 World Cup, Pakistan will play a three-match T20 series against Australia, which will be a preparation for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the Australian team will arrive in Pakistan on January 28 and the matches will be held at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on January 29, 31 and February 1.<\/p>\n<h3>Squad ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup<\/h3>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98374\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3.jpg 512w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3.avif 512w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3-240x300.avif 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Pakistan&#8217;s squad for the ICC T20 World Cup has been announced. Salman Ali Agha has been appointed captain of the 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup. The announced squad includes Faheem Ashraf, Khawaja Muhammad Nafi, Muhammad Salman Mirza, Sahibzada Farhan, Usman Tariq, Abrar Ahmed. Apart from this, Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Muhammad Nawaz, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":98371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1459],"class_list":["post-98370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-icc-t20-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98370","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98379,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98370\/revisions\/98379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}