Pakistan selectors include Shaheen Afridi for series against Australia

Pakistani selectors connected Friday (January 23, 2026) included accelerated bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi successful the nationalist T20 squad for the location bid against Australia.

The squad announced has nary changes from the 1 that played earlier this period against Sri Lanka with the objection of Afridi's instrumentality from a genu wounded and Babar Azam coming backmost aft his mostly unsuccessful stint successful the Big Bash League.

Afridi had injured his genu portion fielding during the Big Bash League successful Australia and returned location for attraction astatine the precocious show centre successful Lahore.

Australia are acceptable to get successful the state connected January 28 and volition play lone their 2nd bid successful the format connected Pakistan ungraded aft a solitary T20I successful April 2022.

The Pakistani selectors are yet to denote their last World Cup squad amid increasing rumours of a imaginable pullout by the Pakistan committee successful enactment of the Bangladesh cricket board's stance of not sending their squad to India owed to "security concerns".

Pakistan squad: Salman Ali Agha (captain), Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Khawaja Mohammad Nafay (wk), Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Salman Mirza, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Naseem Shah, Sahibzada Farhan (wk), Saim Ayub, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shadab Khan, Usman Khan (wk) and Usman Tariq.

Series schedule: (All matches astatine Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore)

1st T20I – January 29

2nd T20I – January 31

3rd T20I – February 1.