2026 Men's T20 World Cup squads

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The 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is the tenth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, a biennial world cup for cricket in Twenty20 International (T20I) format, organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It will be co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka from 7 February to 8 March 2026. [1] [2] A total of twenty teams will compete in 55 matches across five venues in India and three in Sri Lanka. [3] Each team was allowed to have a squad of 15 players and was required submit the provisional squad to the ICC by 8 January 2026. The teams are allowed to make changes to their squads until 31 January 2026. [4]

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Sri Lanka announced their preliminary squad on 19 December 2025. [5] On 20 December 2025, India was the first team to announce its squad for the tournament. [6]

The players are listed in the order of shirt numbers with the withdrawn players placed at the bottom of the table followed by standby players. Given ages are as of 1 June 2024. Withdrawn/dropped players are struck through, and standby players are indicated by a dagger symbol (†). Domestic teams are the recent T20 league teams that the players belonged to before the T20 World Cup and are only listed for the countries with available data.

Group A

Flag of India.svg India

No.PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling style
2 Arshdeep Singh 5 February 1999 (aged 27)Left-handedLeft-arm medium fast
4 Abhishek Sharma 4 September 2000 (aged 25)Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
5 Washington Sundar 5 October 1999 (aged 26)Left-handedRight-arm off break
9 Sanju Samson (wk)11 November 1994 (aged 31)Right-handedRight-arm off break
20 Axar Patel (vc)20 January 1994 (aged 32)Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
22 Harshit Rana 22 December 2001 (aged 24)Right-handedRight-arm fast
23 Kuldeep Yadav 14 December 1994 (aged 31)Left-handed Left arm chinaman
25 Shivam Dube 26 June 1993 (aged 32)Left-handedRight-arm medium
29 Varun Chakravarthy 29 August 1991 (aged 34)Right-handedRight-arm leg break
32 Ishan Kishan (wk)18 July 1998 (aged 27)Left-handedRight-arm leg break
33 Hardik Pandya 11 October 1993 (aged 32)Right-handedRight-arm medium fast
35 Rinku Singh 12 October 1997 (aged 28)Left-handedRight-arm off break
63 Suryakumar Yadav (c)14 September 1990 (aged 35)Right-handedRight-arm off break
72 Tilak Varma 8 November 2002 (aged 23)Left-handedRight-arm off break
93 Jasprit Bumrah 6 December 1993 (aged 32)Right-handedRight-arm fast

Group B

Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia

No.PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling style BBL team
8 Mitchell Marsh (c)20 October 1991 (age 34)Right-handedRight-arm medium Perth Scorchers

Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka

No.PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling style LPL
7 Dasun Shanaka (c)9 September 1991 (aged 34)Right-handedRight-arm medium Kandy Falcons

Group C

Flag of Italy.svg Italy

No.PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling style
# Wayne Madsen [9] (c)2 January 1984 (aged 42)Right-handedRight-arm spin

Group D

References

  1. ↑ "USA to stage T20 World Cup: 2024–2031 ICC Men's tournament hosts confirmed". International Cricket Council. 16 November 2021. Archived from the original on 5 December 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
  2. ↑ "ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026 schedule announced". International Cricket Council . Retrieved 25 November 2025.
  3. ↑ "ICC shortlists venues for 2026 T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka". ESPNcricinfo. 6 November 2025. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  4. ↑ "What is the deadline to announce squad for T20 World Cup 2026?". Inside Sport. 19 December 2025. Retrieved 19 December 2025.
  5. ↑ "Sri Lanka name new captain in T20 World Cup preliminary squad". International Cricket Council . Retrieved 19 December 2025.
  6. ↑ "Gill left out of India's T20 World Cup squad; Rinku, Kishan make comebacks". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 20 December 2025.
  7. ↑ "India's squad for ICC Men's T20 WC announced". BCCI . Retrieved 20 December 2025.
  8. ↑ "SL replace Asalanka with Shanaka as captain ahead of T20 World Cup". ESPN. Retrieved 19 December 2025.
  9. ↑ "Italy axe captain Joe Burns for Men's T20 World Cup 2026". Cricbuzz . Retrieved 20 December 2025.
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