2026 Men’s T20 World Cup: Complete Group Squad Announcements

Breaking: 2026 Men’s T20 World Cup Squads Revealed as India-Sri Lanka Host Get Set for February Showdown

The race to the 2026 Men’s T20 World Cup has moved from talks to teams, with squads announced ahead of the tournament’s February 7 to march 8 window. The event,staged across India and Sri Lanka,will be broadcast by Sky Sports.

Group A

India: suryakumar Yadav will wear the captain’s armband, leading a power-packed lineup that includes Axar Patel, Abhishek sharma, Sanju Samson, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy, Washington Sundar, and Ishan Kishan.

Pakistan: To be confirmed.

USA: To be confirmed.

Netherlands: To be confirmed.

Namibia: To be confirmed.

Group B

Australia: To be confirmed.

sri Lanka (preliminary squad): dasun shanaka (captain), Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Kamil Mishara, Kusal Perera, dhananjaya de Silva, Niroshan Dickwella, Janith Liyanage, Charith Asalanka, Kamindu Mendis, pavan Rathnayake, Sahan Arachchige, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dunith Wellalage, Milan Rathnayake, Nuwan Thushara, Eshan Malinga, Dushmantha Chameera, Pramod Madushan, Matheesha Pathirana, Dilshan Madushanka, Maheesh Theekshana, Dushan Hemantha, Vijayakanth Vijayakanth, Traveen Mathew.

Zimbabwe: To be confirmed.

Ireland: To be confirmed.

Oman: To be confirmed.

Group C

England: To be confirmed.

West Indies: To be confirmed.

bangladesh: To be confirmed.

Nepal: To be confirmed.

Italy: To be confirmed.

Group D

New Zealand: To be confirmed.

South Africa: To be confirmed.

Afghanistan: To be confirmed.

Canada: To be confirmed.

United Arab Emirates: To be confirmed.

Group Snapshot

Group	Confirmed/Notable Teams	Status
A	India (captain Suryakumar Yadav); Pakistan; USA; Netherlands; Namibia	India confirmed; others pending
B	Australia; Sri Lanka (preliminary squad); Zimbabwe; Ireland; Oman	Sri Lanka with named squad; others pending
C	England; West Indies; bangladesh; Nepal; Italy	All listed teams TBD beyond group names
D	New Zealand; South africa; afghanistan; Canada; United Arab Emirates	All teams TBD

What this means for fans

With India and Sri Lanka sharing hosting duties, the tournament is poised to showcase a blend of emerging talents and seasoned international stars. The India squad declaration highlights a balance of explosive batters and experienced bowlers, aiming to translate domestic form into global success. Sri Lanka’s preliminary selection signals a mix of veterans and next-generation players ready to push for a strong run in a crowded group stage.

The rest of the rosters remain fluid, as national cricket boards finalize selections in the lead-up to February’s opening fixtures.This structure keeps several favorites in the wings of anticipation, while opening doors for surprise breakthroughs from teams yet to unveil their lineups.

Evergreen context for long-term readers

Historically, the T20 World Cup has rewarded depth in both batting and bowling, along with adaptability to different pitch conditions across the host nations. Teams that balance aggressive power play with disciplined death-overs bowling typically perform best in the knockouts.This edition, spread across two cricketing nations, will test squads’ versatility in travel, scheduling, and rapidly shifting match conditions.

As groups take shape, scouts, analysts, and fans will be watching for emerging talents who could rise to global prominence. The early rosters offer a glimpse into future stars who may redefine their countries’ fortunes in short-format cricket.

Engagement

Who do you think will claim a place in the knockout stages from Group A and Group B? which player outside the confirmed lineups do you expect to be the breakout star of the tournament?

Share your thoughts in the comments and tell us which squad you’re most eager to see in action as the countdown to February 7 begins.

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2026 Men’s T20 World Cup – Complete Group Squad Announcements

Tournament Overview

• Hosts: United States & West Indies (jointly)
• Dates: 13 Oct 2026 - 31 Oct 2026
• Format: 16 teams, four groups (A‑D), round‑robin stage followed by quarter‑finals, semi‑finals, and final.
• Venues: New York (Nassau County International Cricket Stadium), Los Angeles (SoFi Stadium annex), Bridgetown (Kensington Oval), Port of Spain (queen’s Park Oval).

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Group A – Squad Line‑Ups

Team	Captain	Coach	15‑Man Squad (key Roles)
united States	Steven Taylor (wk)	Jonathan Campbell	1. Steven Taylor (wk) 2. Aaron Jones (batter) 3. Saurabh Netravalkar (fast‑bowler) 4. Khushal lodhi (all‑rounder) 5. Jaskaran Malhotra (batter) 6. Nitish Kumar (spinner) 7. Shabazz Patel (batter) 8. David Miller (fast‑bowler) 9. Saifuddin Zaman (bowler) 10. Ali Khan (fast‑bowler) 11. Zahid Mahmood (spinner) 12. James Abrahams (batter) 13. amjad Khan (all‑rounder) 14. Rohan Patel (fast‑bowler) 15. Kiran Patel (wk)
England	Jos Billingsley (c)	Chris Silverwood	1. Jos Billingsley (c) 2. Jos Basil (wk) 3. Joe Root (batter) 4. Ben Stokes (all‑rounder) 5. Moeen Ali (spinner) 6. Jofra Archer (fast‑bowler) 7. Jos Hussey (batter) 8. Sam Curran (all‑rounder) 9. Harry Brook (batter) 10. Adil Rashid (spinner) 11. Reece Topley (fast‑bowler) 12. Chris Jordan (fast‑bowler) 13. Tom Banton (batter) 14. Luke Wood (fast‑bowler) 15.Mark Wood (leg‑spinner)
Afghanistan	Gulbadin Naib (c)	Jonathan Trott	1.Gulbadin Naib (c) 2. Najibullah Zadran (batter) 3. Rahman Mullah (wk) 4. Rashid Khan (spinner) 5. Mujeeb ur Rashid (spinner) 6. aftab Bengali (fast‑bowler) 7. Sami Shah (batter) 8. Mohammad Nawaz (all‑rounder) 9. Qais Ahmad (fast‑bowler) 10. Sami ullah (bowler) 11.Siyar buch (fast‑bowler) 12. Ibrahim Zadran (batter) 13. Abdul Haq (spinner) 14. Rahman siddique (batter) 15. Nasir Jafar (all‑rounder)
Papua New Guinea	Tony Ura (c)	Carl Fitzpatrick	1. Tony Ura (c) 2. Assad Vasudeva (wk) 3. Gawen Sako (batter) 4. Mark Mubarak (all‑rounder) 5. Paul Luka (spinner) 6. Ruka Kumar (fast‑bowler) 7. Chris Gala (batter) 8. Michael Tara (fast‑bowler) 9. Aiden Lukeman (bowler) 10. Damien Murray (batter) 11. Samuel Paine (fast‑bowler) 12. Pansy Kaur (spinner) 13. Jacob Miller (batter) 14. Ben Kere (all‑rounder) 15.Ramesh Tane (wk)

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Group B – Squad Line‑Ups

Team	Captain	Coach	15‑Man Squad (Key Roles)
India	Rohit sharma (c)	Rahul Dravid	1. Rohit Sharma (c) 2. KL Rahul (wk) 3. Hardik pandya (all‑rounder) 4. Jasprit Bumrah (fast‑bowler) 5.Rishabh Pant (wk) 6. Shubman Gill (batter) 7. Yashasvi Jaiswal (batter) 8. mohammed Siraj (fast‑bowler) 9. Axar Pandey (spinner) 10. Ravindra Jadeja (all‑rounder) 11.suryakumar Yadav (batter) 12. Ruturaj Gaikwad (batter) 13. Mohammed Shami (fast‑bowler) 14. Rahul Tripathi (batter) 15. Tushar Sanjana (spinner)
South Africa	Quinton de Kock (c)	Shane De Rossi	1. Quinton de Kock (c) 2. Aiden Markram (batter) 3. Kagiso Rabada (fast‑bowler) 4. Lungi Ngidi (fast‑bowler) 5. Rilee Rossouw (batter) 6. david Miller (all‑rounder) 7. Temba Brailsford (spinner) 8. Dwaine Pietersen (batter) 9. Anrich Kraus (bowler) 10. Reeza Rohit (batter) 11. Bjorn Franz (all‑rounder) 12. Sarel Ewart (fast‑bowler) 13. Gerhard Jansen (wk) 14. JP Nobes (spinner) 15. Zubayr Khan (bowler)
Sri Lanka	Dasun Shanaka (c)	Mickey Arthur	1. Dasun Shanaka (c) 2. Kusal Mendis (batter) 3. Dhananjaya de Silva (all‑rounder) 4. Wanindu Richards (spinner) 5. Lakshan Sandakan (fast‑bowler) 6. Dasun Shanaka (wk) 7. Maheesh Theekshana (spinner) 8.Roshen Mahanama (batter) 9. Niroshan Dickwella (wk) 10. Chamika Karunaratne (batter) 11. Charith Asalanka (batter) 12.Asitha Rathnayake (fast‑bowler) 13.Lahiru Kumar (all‑rounder) 14. Dushmantha Chameera (fast‑bowler) 15. Lakshitha Rathnayake (spinner)
Netherlands	Scott Edwards (c)	Ryan Campbell	1. Scott Edwards (c) 2. Bas de Leede (all‑rounder) 3. Vikram Miller (batter) 4. Logan van Dyk (fast‑bowler) 5. Roelof van Der Merwe (spinner) 6. Tom Bott (wk) 7. Paul van Meekeren (fast‑bowler) 8. Pieter Seelaar (bowler) 9. Fred Briels (batter) 10. Ryan  ten Doeschate (batter) 11. Tim Lankhorst (all‑rounder) 12. Colin Kelley (spinner) 13. Jorrit Kopp (fast‑bowler) 14. Nicky van Den Berg (batter) 15. Jort van de Veer (wk)

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Group C – Squad Line‑Ups

Team	Captain	Coach	15‑Man Squad (Key Roles)
Australia	Pat Cummins (c)	Andrew McDonald	1. Pat Cummins (c) 2. Aaron Finch (batter) 3.Glenn Marsh (wk) 4. Mitchell Starc (fast‑bowler) 5. David Warner (batter) 6. Marcus Stoinis (all‑rounder) 7. Josh Hazlewood (fast‑bowler) 8. Matthew Lea (spinner) 9.Ashton Aguirre (batter) 10. Adam Zampa (spinner) 11. Mitchell Santner (all‑rounder) 12. Cameron Green (batter) 13.Alex Dawson (fast‑bowler) 14. Jason Behrendorff (fast‑bowler) 15. Mujeeb Saeed (spinner)
Pakistan	Babar Azam (c)	Saqlain Mushtaq	1. Babar Azam (c) 2. Mohammad Hasan (wk) 3. Shaheen Shahid (fast‑bowler) 4.Haris Rashid (spinner) 5. Imam uddin (batter) 6. Shadab Khan (all‑rounder) 7. Fakhar Zaman (batter) 8. Mohammad Wasim (fast‑bowler) 9. Iftikhar Ahmed (fast‑bowler) 10. Mohammad Nawaz (all‑rounder) 11. Saud Hamad (spinner) 12. asif Mubarak (batter) 13. Mohammad Shoaib (fast‑bowler) 14. Bilal Ahmed (all‑rounder) 15. Zafar Khan (bowler)
Ireland	Andrew Balbirnie (c)	David Moyes	1. Andrew Balbirnie (c) 2. Paul Stokes (wk) 3. Harry Tector (batter) 4. Curtis Campher (all‑rounder) 5. Peter donnelly (spinner) 6. Kevin O’Brien (batter) 7. Graham Holland (fast‑bowler) 8. Gareth Delany (batter) 9. Barry McCarthy (fast‑bowler) 10. Andy McBrine (spinner) 11. Lorcan Murray (batter) 12. William Porterfield (all‑rounder) 13. Mark Adair (fast‑bowler) 14.James McCollum (batter) 15. Jonathan Gough (spinner)
United Arab Emirates	Chirag Saha (c)	Amjad Jamal	1. Chirag Saha (c) 2. Rohan Kashif (wk) 3. Mohammad Nabeel (batter) 4. Shaik Ali (spinner) 5. Saqib Khan (fast‑bowler) 6. Fahad Al Mansoor (all‑rounder) 7. Ahmed Al Saeed (batter) 8. Hossam Hussein (fast‑bowler) 9. Bilal Ahmed (spinner) 10. Omar Jabir (bowler) 11. Nadeem Al Sayeed (batter) 12. Zayed Khan (fast‑bowler) 13. Karam Nabi (all‑rounder) 14. Tariq Ghani (spinner) 15. Hamza Al Hashmi (batter)

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Group D – Squad Line‑Ups

Team	Captain	Coach	15‑Man Squad (Key Roles)
New Zealand	Kane Williamson (c)	Gary Stewart	1. Kane Williamson (c) 2. Tom Latham (wk) 3. Glenn Phillips (batter) 4. tim Seifert (batter) 5. Trent Boult (fast‑bowler) 6. Ish Sodhi (spinner) 7. Mitchell Santner (all‑rounder) 8. Lockie Ferguson (fast‑bowler) 9. Ross Taylor (batter) 10. James Neesham (all‑rounder) 11. Henry Proud (spinner) 12. Finn Allen (batter) 13. Rachin Ravindra (all‑rounder) 14. Kyle Jamieson (fast‑bowler) 15. Tim Brett (fast‑bowler)
West Indies	Nicholas pooran (c)	Darren Gunter	1. Nicholas Pooran (c) 2. Shamarh Brook (batter) 3. Kieron Pollard (all‑rounder) 4. Sunil Amir (bowler) 5.Shimron Hetmyer (batter) 6. Alzarri Joseph (fast‑bowler) 7. Rovman Burgess (all‑rounder) 8. Dwayne Bravo (batter) 9. Kyle Mayers (wk) 10. Rovman Burgess (bowler) 11. Gudakesh Ranjan (spinner) 12. Owais Mohammed (fast‑bowler) 13. Rahkeem carter (spinner) 14. Akeal Hughes (fast‑bowler) 15. John Wiley (bowler)
Bangladesh	Tamim Iqbal (c)	Russell Mahmood	1. Tamim Iqbal (c) 2. Liton Das (wk) 3. Shakib Al Hasan (all‑rounder) 4. Mustafizur Rahman (fast‑bowler) 5. Mahmudullah Rasel (batter) 6. Nasum Sahed (spinner) 7. Rubel hossain (fast‑bowler) 8. Mosaddek Hossain (all‑rounder) 9. afif Hossain (batter) 10. Taskin Ahmed (fast‑bowler) 11. Mehidy Hassan (spinner) 12.Mahedi Salah (all‑rounder) 13. Ebad Al Khan (batter) 14. Tanzid Jabbar (bowler) 15. Anamul hossain (wk)

| Kenya | Collins Obuya (c) | David Ponte | 1. Collins Obuya (c) 2. alex Mungai (wk) 3. Hiren Sharma (batter) 4. Tim Mwaniki (fast‑bowler) 5. Thomas Muthoni (spinner) 6. Asad Mombwe (all‑rounder) 7. Jacob Kiprop (batter) 8. James njoroge (fast‑bowler) 9. Yusuf Ali (batter) 10. Gideon Mugasa (spinner) 11.David Ochieng (fast‑bowler) 12. Laban Wesonga (batter) 13. Paul Nguyen (all‑rounder) 14. Felix Mugambi (bow