India, Aug. 17 -- The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Sunday announced Pakistan's 17-man squad for the upcoming UAE T20 tri-series and the subsequent Asia Cup, also to be played in the UAE. Salman Ali Agha has been retained as captain of the squad, which does not feature either Babar Azam or Mohammad Rizwan.

Babar last played a T20I game in December 2024. He later participated in the 2025 PSL season, scoring 56*, 53*, and 94 in his last seven appearances for Peshawar Zalmi. The former captain was more recently part of the PDI series in the West Indies, where he scored 47, 0 and 9 in the three matches. Rizwan, too, was not picked for Pakistan's recent T20I series in Bangladesh and the West Indies, but did play in the ODIs in the Caribbean...