Asian Games 2026: Full list of squads for men’s cricket

Shreyas Iyer will lead the team while most first-team players, including Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Jasprit Bumrah, and Tilak Varma will take the field in Aichi-Nagoya.  | Photo Credit: PTI

The Indian men’s cricket team will begin its Asian Games 2026 campaign in the second quarterfinal against Afghanistan on September 28.

India is the defending champion, having won gold in the 2022 edition after the final against Afghanistan was washed out.

India will enter the competition on the back of a nervy two-run win over Japan in the one-off T20I.

As for the squad, Shreyas Iyer will lead the team while most first-team players, including Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Jasprit Bumrah, and Tilak Varma will take the field in Aichi-Nagoya.

Fifteen-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has also been included in the squad, and it remains to be seen whether he will get a chance to play in one of the games.

Elswhere, Pakistan will take on Hong Kong in the second quarterfinal on September 28, with a potential faceoff against India in the final on the cards.

Sri Lanka will face Nepal in the third quarterfinal on September 29, while Bangladesh will face Malaysia in the fourth quarterfinal, also on September 29.

SQUAD LIST

India

Shreyas Iyer (c), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma, Vipraj Nigam, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi

Pakistan

Sahibzada Farhan (c), Abdul Samad (vc), Abrar Ahmed, Ahmed Daniyal, Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Arafat Minhas, Haider Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Maaz Sadaqat, Mohammad Salman Mirza, Saad Masood, Saim Ayub, Sufyan Moqim, Usman Khan

Sri Lanka

Sahan Arachchige (c), Ashen Bandara, Lasith Croospulle, Sohan de Livera, Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Binura Fernando, Nuwanidu Fernando, Tharindu Ratnayake, Dushan Hemantha, Sineth Jayawardena, Chamika Karunaratne, Garuka Sanketh, Wanuja Sahan, Nuwan Thushara, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth

Bangladesh

Litton Das (c), Tanzid Hasan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Mohammed Saif Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Tawhid Hridoy, Musaddek Hossain Saikat, Yasir Ali Chowdhury, Rishad Hossain, Shak Mahedi Hasan, Nasum Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Aliss Al Islam

Afghanistan

Darwish Rasooli (c), Abdullah Ahmadzai, Mohammad Akram, Ismat Alam, Faridoon Dawoodzai, Hassan Eisakhil, Mohammad Ishaq, Karim Janat, Faisal Khan, Nangyal Kharoti, Imran Mir, Arab Gul Momand, Farmanullah Safi, Khalid Taniwal, Najibullah Zadran

Nepal

Dipendra Singh Airee (c), Rohit Kumar Paudel, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Sandeep Lamichhane, Aarif Sheikh, Aasif Sheikh, Kushal Bhurtel, Lalit Rajbanshi, Gulsan Kumar Jha, Nandan Yadav, Lokesh Bam, Sundeep Jora, Sher Malla, Kushal Malla

Hong Kong

Yasim Murtaza (c), Babar Hayat, Anas Khan, Anshuman Rath, Ayush Shukla, Ehsan Khan, Hafeez Khan, Hussain Rajab, Mohammad Ghazanfar, Mohammad Hassan Khan, Mohammad Waheed, Nizakat Khan, Rana Nasrulla, Shahid Wasif, Shiv Mathur

Malaysia

Syed Aziz Syed Mubarak (c), Virandeep Singh, Muhammad Haziq Aiman Mohd Hafiz, Pavandeep Singh, Vijay Unni, Sharvin Muniyandy, Muhamad Syahadat Ramli, Muhammad Akram Adb Malek, Muhammad Amir Azim Abd Shukor, Aslam Khan Malik, Muhammad Azri Azha Amaluz Zaman, Amirkhan Malik, Muhammad Wafiq Irfan Zarbani, Ainool Hafizs Md Yatim, Rahim Khan Malik

Published on Sep 27, 2026

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