The 2025 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia-EAP Regional Final was a cricket tournament that formed part of the qualification process for the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup. It was held in Oman from 8 to 17 October 2025.
The top three sides Nepal, Oman and United Arab Emirates joined Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the 2026 T20 World Cup who had already pre-qualified. India and Sri Lanka directly qualified for the T20 World Cup as co-hosts, while Afghanistan, Australia and Bangladesh qualified as by finishing among the top eight teams from the previous edition and New Zealand and Pakistan qualified through the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings.
Teams and qualification In this cycle, a total of 14 teams participated in the Asian sub-regional phase and 8 teams were participating in the EAP sub-regional phase. The Asian sub-regional phase was divided into two events of seven teams and the EAP sub-regional phase was divided into two events of four teams.
The top two sides of each Asia sub-regional qualifier along with the winners of EAP sub-regional qualifiers advanced to a combined regional final, where they will join Nepal, Oman and Papua New Guinea who received a bye after participating in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
Method ofqualification Date Venue(s) No. of teams Team 2024 T20 World Cup 29 June 2024 EAP Qualifier A 17–24 August 2024 30 August – EAP Qualifier B 28 September – Total 9
Squads Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming (c) Abdul Samad Abhishek Anand Charles Hinze Benjamin Ito-Davis Wataru Miyauchi (wk) Esam Rahman Sabaorish Ravichandran Reo Sakurano-Thomas Alexander Shirai-Patmore (wk) Shoma Sugaya-Slater Declan Suzuki-McComb Ibrahim Takahashi Makoto Taniyama Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake Mohammed Aslam (c) Clinto Anto Meet Bhavsar (wk) Anudeep Chenthamara Muhammad Aqif Farooq Shiraz Khan Nimish Lathief Usman Patel (wk) Yasin Patel Naveenraj Rajendran Ravija Sandaruwan Mohamed Shafeeq Bilal Tahir Muhammad Umar Ali Zaheer Syed Aziz (c) Ainool Hafizs Muhammad Amir Arif Ullah Ahmad Faiz Khizar Hayat Muhammad Haziq Aiman Aslam Khan Sharvin Muniandy Pavandeep Singh Virandeep Singh Muhamad Syahadat Vijay Unni Muhammad Wafiq Aqeel Wahid Rohit Paudel (c) Dipendra Singh Airee (vc) Mohammad Aadil Alam Lokesh Bam Kushal Bhurtel Gulshan Jha Sundeep Jora Sandeep Lamichhane Sompal Kami Karan KC Kushal Malla Lalit Rajbanshi Aarif Sheikh Aasif Sheikh (wk) Nandan Yadav Jatinder Singh (c) Vinayak Shukla (vc) Shakeel Ahmed Aryan Bisht Shah Faisal Hasnain Ul Wahab Zikria Islam Aamir Kaleem Nadeem Khan Sufyan Mehmood Hammad Mirza Mohammed Nadeem Jiten Ramanandi Hassnain Shah Samay Shrivastava Assad Vala (c) Malcolm Aporo Sese Bau John Kariko Ainui Loi Michael Charlie Kabua Morea Alei Nao Patrick Nou Damien Ravu Boio Ray Doko Rupa Lega Siaka Gaudi Toka Hila Vare (wk) Mirza Mohammed Baig (c) Owais Ahmed Zubair Ali Saqlain Arshad Muhammad Asim Amir Farooq Shahzaib Jamil (wk) Ikramullah Khan Daniel Louis Imal Liyanage (wk) Shariq Munir Muhammad Murad Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Arif Nasir Uddin Muhammad Tanveer Caleb Jasmat (c) Daniel Burgess Douglas Finau Samuel French (wk) Kurtis Hynam-Nyberg Benjamin Mailata Noah Mead Solomon Nash Samson Sola Sean Solia Fereti Suluoto (wk) Ross Taylor Saumani Tiai Ili Tugaga Darius Visser Muhammad Waseem (c) Haider Ali Zahid Ali Muhammad Arfan Basil Hameed Rahul Chopra (wk) Muhammad Farooq Jonathan Figy Harshit Kaushik Mayank Kumar Dhruv Parashar Muhammad Rohid Alishan Sharafu Aryansh Sharma (wk) Junaid Siddique Simranjeet Singh
Preparations Samoa in Malaysia
Samoa toured Malaysia to play two 20-over matches against Malaysia A in September.
Kuwait in Oman
1st T20I
2nd T20I
Warm-up matches
Group stage The group division and the fixtures of the Asia–EAP Regional Final were announced by the International Cricket Council on 10 July 2025.
Group A Points table
Fixtures
Group B Points table
Fixtures
Group C Points table
Fixtures
Super 6 Points table
Fixtures
Notes
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo (Oman v Kuwait) Series home at ESPNcricinfo (Regional Final)