Pakistan cricket group captain Salman Ali Agha addresses on the pre-final press convention on the DICS, Dubai on September 27, 2025. — APP
Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha mentioned on Monday that the facet would keep on with its aggressive taking part in fashion till the upcoming ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026 in India and Sri Lanka in February-March 2026.
After a string of below-par performances within the shortest format, stemming from their dismal T20 World Cup 2024 marketing campaign, the Inexperienced Shirts altered their technique to meet up with the fast-paced nature of modern-day cricket, which noticed Agha’s appointment as Pakistan captain, adopted by the ouster of senior gamers like Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan.
The brand new technique yielded combined outcomes for Pakistan, as they received 17 out of 29 matches beneath Agha’s captaincy.
Pakistan’s most up-to-date look within the format got here on the ACC Males’s T20 Asia Cup 2025, the place they misplaced to arch-rivals India thrice, together with the ultimate. The continental event’s heartbreak pressured Pakistan to make tweaks to their pool of gamers, bringing within the skilled duo of Babar and Naseem Shah.
The return of the skilled gamers, who had been thought of to have gone out of favour, gave rise to the speculations of a shift in Pakistan’s ‘strategy’ for the T20Is, however Agha, whereas addressing the pre-series press convention right here on the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, dismissed them categorically.
The Pakistan captain confused that the group will keep on with their current technique, which is to play in response to the situations and in keeping with the par rating of every venue.
“As I said earlier, our strategy is to analyse the stats of each ground we play at and [when we bat] we try to breach the par score. It’s still the same strategy and it will continue until the T20 World Cup,” Agha advised reporters on the eve of their three-match residence T20I sequence in opposition to South Africa.
“So, we just have to look at the par score of a venue and try to score around 15 runs more than that so that our bowling attack can benefit from it. Similarly, when we bowl first, we try to bowl the opposition out below the par score to support our batting unit,” he defined.
It’s pertinent to say that Pakistan will bolster their preparations for subsequent yr’s T20 World Cup with a three-match residence sequence in opposition to South Africa, scheduled to get underway right here on Tuesday.
The remaining two fixtures of the sequence, nonetheless, can be performed on the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on October 31 and November 1, respectively.
Pakistan squad for South Africa T20Is
Salman Ali Agha (c), Abdul Samad, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Nawaz, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Mohammad Salman Mirza, Naseem Shah, Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Usman Khan (wk) and Usman Tariq.
