The 2026 T20 World Cup will start from 7 February and the final match will be played on 8 March. A total of 20 teams will participate in this World Cup tournament and one by one all the countries are declaring their squads. From India to England, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have also announced their teams.

India is hosting the World Cup, but Pakistan’s matches will be played in Sri Lanka. Till now a total of 10 teams have declared their squads and the same number of teams are left. See here which players have got a chance to play in the World Cup and who have not. The last date for declaring the World Cup squad is January 8, while teams will be allowed to make some changes in their respective teams till January 31.

Squads of all teams for T20 World Cup:

India

Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dubey, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Rinku Singh.

England

Harry Brook (captain), Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Tom Banton, Jacob Bethel, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Liam Dawson, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Jamie Overton, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Josh Tong, Luke Wood.

bangladesh

Liton Das (captain), Tanjeed Hasan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Saif Hasan, Tauheed Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Kazi Nurul Hasan Sohan, Shak Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Nasum Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Tanzeem Hasan Saqib, Taskin Ahmed, Shaif Uddin, Shoriful Islam

South Africa

Aiden Markram (captain), Quinton de Kock, Tony de Jorzi, Dewald Brewis, David Miller, Donovan Ferreira, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Kwena Mfaka, Lungi Ngidi, Jason Smith, George Linde, Corbin Bosch, Anrich Nortje.

afghanistan

Rashid Khan (captain), Noor Ahmed, Abdullah Ahmedzai, Sediqullah Atal, Fazalhaq Farooqui, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Naveen Ul Haq, Mohammad Ishaq, Shahidullah Kamal, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Umarzai, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Darwish Rasooli, Ibrahim Zadran.

reserve: AM Ghazanfar, Ijaz Ahmadzai and Zia Ur Rehman Sharifi

namibia

Gerhard Erasmus (captain), Zane Green, Bernard Scholtz, Ruben Trumpelman, JJ Smit, Jan Frylink, Lauren Steenkamp, ​​Malan Kruger, Nicole Lofty-Eaton, Jack Brassell, Ben Shikongo, Jesse Balt, Dylan Leichter, WP Myburgh, Max Hengo

Australia (provisional squad)

Mitchell Marsh (captain), Xavier Bartlett, Cooper Connolly, Pat Cummins, Tim David, Cameron Green, Nathan Ellis, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh English, Matthew Kuhneman, Glenn Maxwell, Matthew Short, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa.

Sri Lanka (Preliminary Squad)

Dasun Shanaka (captain), Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Kamil Mishara, Kusal Perera, Dhananjay de Silva, Niroshan Dickwella, Zenith Liyanage, Charith Asalanka, Kamindu Mendis, Pawan Ratnayake, Sahan Arachige, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dunith Vellaage, Milan Ratnayake, Nuwan Thushara, Ishan Malinga, Dushmantha Chameera, Pramod Madushan, Mathisha Pathirana, Dilshan Madushanka, Mahesh Teekshana, Dushan Hemantha, Vijaykant Vyaskant, Trevin Mathew

zimbabwe

Sikandar Raza (captain), Brian Bennett, Ryan Burl, Graeme Cremer, Bradley Evans, Clive Madende, Tinotenda Maphosa, Tadivanashe Marumani, Wellington Masakadza, Tony Munyonga, Tashinga Musekiwa, Blessing Muzarabani, Dion Myers, Richard Ngarawa, Brendan Taylor.

oman

Jatinder Singh (captain), Vinayak Shukla, Mohammad Nadeem, Shakeel Ahmed, Hammad Mirza, Wasim Ali, Karan Sonawale, Shah Faesal, Nadeem Khan, Sufyan Mahmood, Jai Odedara, Shafiq Jan, Ashish Odedara, Jiten Ramanandi, Hasnain Ali Shah

South Africa has announced a 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup 2026. Aiden Markram will be the captain, but two dangerous batsmen in the form of Ryan Rickleton and Tristan Stubbs have not got a place in the squad. Kagiso Rabada, who missed the series against India due to injury, has returned to the South African team for the World Cup.

There are some players in South Africa’s squad who will be playing their first T20 World Cup. Kwena Mafaka, Corbin Bosch, Dewald Brewis, George Linde and Jason Smith will be participating in the World Cup for the first time.

Jason Smith’s name in the squad is surprising, because he has experience of only 5 international matches so far. However, in the playoff match of CSAT20 Challenge, he created a sensation in the cricket world by playing a stormy inning of 68 runs in 19 balls. Let us tell you that till now India, Sri Lanka, Australia, Oman and Afghanistan have also announced their respective World Cup squads.

In the 2026 T20 World Cup, South Africa has been placed in Group D along with Afghanistan, New Zealand, Canada and UAE. South Africa will start its World Cup campaign with a match against Canada on 9 February. The T20 World Cup will start from 7 February and the final will be played on 8 March. India and Sri Lanka will be hosting this tournament together.

South Africa’s squad for T20 World Cup: Aiden Markram (captain), Corbin Bosch, Dewald Brewis, Quinton de Kock, Tony De Jorzi, Donovan Ferreira, Marco Jansen, George Linde, Keshav Maharaj, Kwena Mafaka, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada, Jason Smith

SQUAD ANNOUNCEMENT

The South African Men’s selection panel has announced the 15-player squad for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, to be held in India and Sri Lanka from 07 February – 08 March.

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Squads for the 2026 T20 World Cup are slowly starting to emerge. Till now India has declared its 15-member squad, while Sri Lanka has declared its preliminary squad, in which changes are still possible. The World Cup will be played from 7 February to 8 March next year. Meanwhile, England’s legendary spin bowler Monty Panesar has predicted the teams going to the last-4 of the T20 World Cup. Along with this, he has also made a big revelation about the next T20 captain of India.

Panesar’s prediction on semi-final teams

Monty Panesar predicted in a media interview, “This time India, Australia, South Africa and England will reach the semi-finals. England beats big teams, this is their strength. I don’t think New Zealand is a stronger team right now. South Africa and India are very strong, Australia and England are also good teams.”

Panesar made another shocking prediction and said that Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav will win the Player of the Series award. Suryakumar who has been struggling with poor form this year. Captain Suryakumar has scored only 218 runs in the last 19 T20 innings at a poor average of 13.62.

If India does not win the T20 World Cup, who will be the captain?

Suryakumar Yadav’s captaincy record in T20 has been excellent. So far, under his captaincy, India has played 38 matches, in which it has won 28 matches and lost only 6 matches. While 2 matches were tied and two matches were drawn.

Panesar said that if India does not become T20 World Champion under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, then Akshar Patel can become the new captain. According to Panesar, Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir likes all-rounder players, hence he has predicted that Akshar Patel will be made the captain, who can bowl as well as batting strongly.

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