About Our Ads Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement The new edition of Hong Kong Sixes begins on Friday, October 30 and will run till November 1 at the Mission Road Ground in Mong Kok.
Twelve teams have been split into four groups of three, and the draw has put India and Pakistan together in Group C alongside the UAE.
Pakistan arrive as defending champions, having beaten Kuwait by 43 runs in last year's final for a record sixth title, with Abbas Afridi leading again after hitting 52 off 11 balls in that decider.
India have handed the captaincy to Bhuvneshwar Kumar and have won the competition only once, back in 2005.
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Each nation names seven players for a format that puts six on the field, and every member of the fielding side other than the wicketkeeper has to bowl an over.
Gulbadin Naib (c), Karim Janat, Nangeyalia Kharoti, Imran Mir, Sediqullah Pacha, Abdul Rahman, Farmanullah Safi
Chris Green (c), Max Bryant, Nick Hobson, Matthew Kelly, Kane Richardson, Alex Ross, Jack Wood
Abu Hider (c), Ahrar Amin, Samiun Basir, Mrittunjoy Chowdhury, Sabbir Rahman, Chowdhury Rizwan, Habibur Rahman Sohan
John Simpson (c, wk), Martin Andersson, Ed Barnard, Jack Carson, Nathan Gilchrist, Fynn Hudson-Prentice, Dan Mousley
Yasim Murtaza (c), Babar Hayat, Aizaz Khan, Ehsan Khan, Nizakat Khan, Nasrulla Rana, Anshuman Rath
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (c), Krunal Pandya, Shashank Singh, Rahul Tewatia, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, T Natarajan
Aamir Kaleem (c), Zohaib Amanat, Usman Ali Afridi, Akbar Ali, Sami Hassan (wk), Shafiq Jan, Muzahir Raza
Abbas Afridi (c), Ahmed Daniyal, Irfan Khan Niazi, Saad Masood, Khawaja Nafay (wk), Abdul Samad, Mohammad Shehzad
Jasper Davidson, Jack Jarvis, Mackenzie Jones, Michael Leask, Finlay McCreath, Lyle Robertson, Safyaan Sharif
Jorich van Schalkwyk (c), Abdullah Bayoumy, Ayabulela Gqamane, Alindile Mhletywa, Heath Richards, Blake Simpson, Steve Stolk
Sangeeth Cooray (c), Ravindu Fernando, Vishen Halambage, Sachitha Jayathilake, Muditha Lakshan, Movin Subasingha, Chamindu Wijesinghe
Khalid Shah (c), Zahid Ali, Mohammed Faraazuddin, Muhammad Farooq, Maroof Merchant, Ansh Tandon, Zuhaib Zubair
Bhuvneshwar takes over from Dinesh Karthik, who led India last year, and brings a squad drawn entirely from the IPL circuit.
Five of Pakistan's seven were part of the side that won in 2025, among them Abdul Samad, who made 42 off 13 balls in the final.
The 2026 edition of the tournament consists of 12 teams split into four groups of three with each team playing the other two teams in their group.
The teams will be distributed among three different finals based on their position in the group stages. The group winners will go to the Cup semi-finals while the second-placed teams will be competing in the Plate semi-finals and the third-placed teams will join the Bowl competition.
The knock-out games start on October 31 with the finals, with classification matches taking place on November 1. Each of the teams will play throughout the tournament with final classifications from 1st to 12th decided through different tournaments.
The tournament will have 25 matches over three days including the women's exhibition match.
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