The Pakistan Cricket Board on May 24, declared their 15-member squad for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024, which will kick-start from June 1 in the USA and Caribbean.
Their first match will be on June 6 with United States, then on June 9 the much awaited match against India will take place, and on June 11 against Canada and the last group-stage match will be on June 16 against Ireland.
Pakistan is the last team to announce the squad for the T20 World Cup 2024. Shaheen Shah Afridi had took over as Pakistan’s T20I captain but Chairman PCB Mohsin Naqvi has appointed Babar Azam as ODI and T20I captain of the Pakistan men’s cricket team.
The Pak squad will be led by Babar Azam. In the 15 players, we will have debut entries like Abrar Ahmed, Azam Khan, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Saim Ayub and Usman Khan entering T20 World Cup, while some familiar faces from 2016 and 2021 tournaments Mohammad Amir and Imad Wasim will appear again. The other eight players participated in the 2022 event in Australia.
Other members include, Mohammad Rizwan, Fakhar Zaman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Abbas Afridi, Haris Rauf.
Players who missed out
Pacers Zaman Khan and Mohammad Waseem Jr. who have been in and out of the Pakistani squad and often put up good performances have been left out. In addition, middle order batter Agha Salman and opener Abdullah Shafique, who was one of the few positives from their ODI World Cup 2023, have also been left out.
Pakistan has won the 2009 event under Younis Khan and twice reached the finals under Shoaib Malik (2007) and Babar Azam (2022).
With the addition of new players and an experience of some old players, Pakistan will be all set to embark on the journey of T20 World Cup 2024.
Tabinda Mir is a writer from Kashmir. She is an English Honours graduate and her interests primarily dwell in poetry and sports writing. She likes to cover Cricket as an avid fan. Apart from sports, her other publications include articles, poems and a letter to summer in the book titled, “Under The Summer Skies”.
Also, her leisure time activities include reading novels, poetry, non literary works, philosophies and writing poetry, short stories, articles on diverse themes.
