{"id":22198,"date":"2026-06-10T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22198"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:49:30","slug":"asian-games-2026-sahibzada-farhan-named-pakistan-t20-captain-as-15-member-squad-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22198","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2026: Sahibzada Farhan Named Pakistan T20 Captain as 15-Member Squad Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced a 15-member squad for the 2026 Asian Games, with Sahibzada Farhan appointed as captain of the national T20 side.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the PCB, Abdul Samad has been named vice-captain for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s T20 competition at the 2026 Asian Games will begin on September 24 in Aichi, Japan, while the cricket medal matches are scheduled for October 3.<\/p>\n<p>The PCB stated that 30-year-old Sahibzada Farhan will lead the side after impressing in domestic and international cricket. Farhan has represented Pakistan in 46 T20 internationals, scoring 1,305 runs, including two centuries and 10 half-centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The squad also features Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Moaz Sadaqat and Saad Masood, who are in line to make their T20 international debuts for Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the board, 14 of the 15 selected players will also take part in the white-ball training camp scheduled to begin in Lahore on June 15.<\/p>\n<h3>Pakistan Squad for Asian Games 2026<\/h3>\n<p>Sahibzada Farhan (Captain), Abdul Samad (Vice Captain) Abrar Ahmed, Ahmed Daniyal, Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Arafat Minhas, Haider Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Maaz Sadaqat, Muhammad Salman Mirza, Saad Masood, Saim Ayub, Sufiyan Muqeem, Usman Khan<\/p>\n<p>The Asian Games cricket competition is expected to provide an opportunity for several emerging players to gain international exposure while representing Pakistan on a major multi-sport stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced a 15-member squad for the 2026 Asian Games, with Sahibzada Farhan appointed as captain of the national T20 side. According to the PCB, Abdul Samad has been named vice-captain for the tournament. The men&#8217;s T20 competition at the 2026 Asian Games will begin on September 24 in Aichi, Japan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,38],"tags":[5675,5307,12344,12340,12341,12338,12334,12345,4750,5245,12339,5676,59,12342,3440,325,697,7261,12336,12335,254,12343,6048,4737,5143,2206,6150,12337,12346],"class_list":["post-22198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-sports","tag-abdul-samad","tag-abrar-ahmed","tag-aichi","tag-akif-javed","tag-ali-raza","tag-arafat-minhas","tag-asian-games-2026","tag-asian-games-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-tournament","tag-haider-ali","tag-hasan-nawaz","tag-japan","tag-moaz-sadaqat","tag-pakistan-cricket","tag-pakistan-cricket-board","tag-pakistan-cricket-team","tag-pakistan-sports","tag-pakistan-squad","tag-pakistan-t20-team","tag-pcb","tag-saad-masood","tag-sahibzada-farhan","tag-saim-ayub","tag-t20-cricket","tag-t20-international","tag-team-pakistan","tag-usman-khan","tag-white-ball-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22201,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22198\/revisions\/22201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}