Squad player · Islamabad United · PSL 11 squad (2026), updated for the road to PSL 12
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The Islamabad United dressing room for PSL 11 mixed senior internationals with emerging names, and Mohammad Faiq was one of the players who wrapped up the campaign in second place with 1 points on the board. United reached the playoffs yet again, keeping up the most consistent qualification record in the league.
Every PSL champion's story includes a squad player who became a starter by May. The tournament is too long, and the calendar too crowded, for eleven names to carry a franchise through it.
What stands out on the training ground is consistency of method, the product of a development path through Pakistan's age-group and domestic system, the same pipeline the PCB's new pathway tournaments are built to widen: match awareness — reading a chase, a pitch, a bowler's plan — tends to run ahead of raw numbers.
How Shadab Khan builds an innings decides where this player lands in the order of things: spin is trusted through the middle overs even on true surfaces.
| Full name | Mohammad Faiq |
|---|---|
| Franchise (PSL 11, 2026) | Islamabad United |
| Squad status | PENDING — retention or release confirmed at the squad deadline |
| Playing role | Squad player |
| Listing basis | PSL 11 (2026) squad as published by Wisden on 25 March 2026. PSL 12 squads refresh after retentions, direct signings and the 23 January 2027 auction. |
| PSL batting best | PENDING — awaiting a traced official figure |
| PSL fielding — catches | PENDING — awaiting a traced official figure |
| Keeps wicket | No |
| Verified X / Twitter handle | Not publicly listed — no verified handle found in reliable sources; handles are never guessed |
| Nationality | Pakistan |
| PSL 11 captain | No |
| Date of birth / age | PENDING — not in sources checked 26 Oct 2026 — not publicly listed in sources checked |
| Wickets and best figures (PSL) | PENDING — not in sources checked 26 Oct 2026 — league charts are on the records pages |
How to read the PENDING lines: a statistic appears here only when it traces back to the PCB, the league site, ESPNcricinfo, Wisden or a cross-checked record list. Anything else stays marked PENDING — a gap beats a guess.
Home fixtures bring their own texture: Islamabad United play out of Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, and regulars there know how conditions shift between a fresh pitch in week one and a worn one by the playoffs.
The season's shape — ten league matches, a four-team playoff squeeze — means slow starts are punished harder than ever; Islamabad United's early fixtures, with sides like Lahore Qalandars and Multan Sultans in the rotation, will set the tone. Form in the National T20 pathway events also matters now, with the PCB using them as a talent-identification route into the auction.
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Mohammad Faiq was in the Islamabad United squad for PSL 11 (2026). PSL 12 places are decided by retentions, direct signings and the auction on 23 January 2027.
The listed role for Mohammad Faiq is squad player. Role details are checked against published squad lists; anything not confirmed in a reliable source is marked PENDING on this page rather than guessed.
No. Mohammad Faiq does not keep wicket for Islamabad United in the PSL squad listing used for this guide.
It turns on retentions (a maximum of seven per team), the direct-signing window and the January 2027 auction. The page updates when Islamabad United publish their PSL 12 list.