On Monday, October 5, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced Pakistan’s white-ball squads for their forthcoming series. While the T20I team takes on Sri Lanka in a three-match series, the ODI side will be a part of the tri-series against Sri Lanka and England.
While Pakistan’s three-match T20I series begins on Friday, October 9, in Rawalpindi, the ODI tri-series will commence on Sunday, October 18 and feature a double round-robin format with the top two sides racing to the final.
In an interesting turn of events, PCB named top-order batter Sahibzada Farhan as their new T20I captain, with the 30-year-old taking over from Salman Ali Agha for the upcoming three-match series against Sri Lanka.
Notably, Salman Ali Agha is set to remain part of the ODI setup, where Shaheen Shah Afridi retains the captaincy for the tri-series. Further, Babar Azam has been included in the ODI squad.
Farhan, who top-scored at the ICC T20 World Cup 2026, led Pakistan to a silver medal at the just-concluded Asian Games 2026 after losing the final to Team India in Aichi-Nagoya. In the T20 World Cup 2026 campaign, Farhan scored 383 runs at a strike rate of 160 to emerge as the leading run-scorer.
Pakistan’s T20I squad vs Sri Lanka:
Sahibzada Farhan (c), Abdul Samad, Abrar Ahmed, Arafat Minhas, Fakhar Zaman, Hasan Nawaz, Khawaja Nafay (wk), Maaz Sadaqat, Mohammad Salman Mirza, Muhammad Imran Randhawa, Naseem Shah, Razaullah, Saim Ayub, Shadab Khan, Sufiyan Moqim.
Pakistan’s ODI squad for the tri-series vs Sri Lanka and England:
Shaheen Shah Afridi (c), Abrar Ahmed, Arafat Minhas, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Hasan Nawaz, Muhammad Ghazi Ghori (wk), Naseem Shah, Razaullah, Saad Baig (wk), Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Shadab Khan, Sufiyan Moqim.
