The much-anticipated Pakistan Super League (PSL) 9 Players Draft gets underway in Lahore as all the six franchises of the marquee league will complete their squads.
Teams can pick up to three each from the Platinum, Diamond and Gold categories, five from Silver, two from Emerging and two from Supplementary, forming a squad of 18.
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734894782642540728
Ahead of the draft during the trade and retention window, each team could keep eight players.
As per the convention, each of the six teams will be allowed to use the Right to Match (RTM) Card once which will allow them to recruit back a player. The team using the card will be paying the RTM price to the other team.
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734905190560440583
A total of 485 international players from 22 nations have enlisted for the draft. In the Platinum category, there are 46 players, while 76 players have registered in the Diamond category.
The draft's foreign players list is enhanced by the inclusion of England’s Dawid Malan and South Africa’s Reeza Hendricks, both among the top 10 in the ICC Men’s T20I player rankings for batters.
Sri Lanka spinner Maheesh Theekshana, Afghanistan pair Fazalhaq Farooqi and Mujeeb Ur Rahman, and West Indies left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein, all ranked in the top 10 T20I bowlers, are available for the draft. Additionally, the world's number 2 T20I all-rounder, Mohammad Nabi, is part of the draft.
PLATINUM CATEGORY
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Round 1
Multan Sultans: David Willey (Eng)
Karachi Kings: Kieron Pollard (WI)
Quetta Gladiators: Sherfane Rutherford (WI)
Peshawar Zalmi: Noor Ahmad (Afg)
Quetta Gladiators: Muhammad Amir (Pak)
Lahore Qalandars: Fakhar Zaman (Pak)
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734911801530241136
Round 2
Lahore Qalandars: Rassie van der Dussen (SA)
Islamabad United: Jordan Cox (Eng)
Karachi Kings: Daniel Sams (Aus)
Karachi Kings: Muhammad Nawaz (Pak)
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734914735009657222
DIAMOND CATEGORY
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734211437814276374
Multan Sultans: Dawid Malan (Eng)
Peshawar Zalmi: Asif Ali (Pak)
Islamabad United: Tymal Mills (Eng)
Karachi Kings: Tim Seifert (NZ)
Lahore Qalandars: Sahibzada Farhan (Pak)
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734919378187984919
GOLD CATEGORY
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734181240075677946
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Peshawar Zalmi: Naveenulhaq Murid (Afg)
Multan Sultans: Reeza Hendricks (SA)
Multan Sultans: Reece Topley (Eng)
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734922104682791289
SILVER CATEGORY
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734196332829852036
Round 1
Quetta Gladiators: Saud Shakeel (Pak)
Multan Sultans: Tayyab Tahir (Pak)
Lahore Qalandars: M Imran Jr (Pak)
Multan Sultans: Shahnawaz Dhani (Pak)
Karachi Kings: Mohammad Amir Khan (Pak)
Peshawar Zalmi: Salman Irshad (Pak)
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734928659310338321
Round 2
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Peshawar Zalmi: Arif Yaqoob (Pak)
Islamabad United: Matthew Forde (WI)
Islamabad United: Salman Ali Agha (Pak)
Lahore Qalandars: Ahsan Hafeez Bhatti (Pak)
Quetta Gladiators: Sajjad Ali Jnr (Pak)
Multan Sultans: Mohammad Ali (Pak)
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734932192608842081
Round 3
Quetta Gladiators: Usman Qadir (Pak)
Lahore Qalandars: Dan Lawrence (Eng)
Multan Sultans: Usman Khan (UAE)
Peshawar Zalmi: Umair Afridi (Pak)
Islamabad United: Qasim Akram (Pak)
Karachi Kings: Anwar Ali (Pak)
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734936827008573443
Round 4
Karachi Kings: Arafat Minhas (Pak)
Peshawar Zalmi: Daniel Mousley (Eng)
Islamabad United: Shahab Khan (Pak)
Quetta Gladiators: Omair Bin Yousuf (Pak)
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734939163542069437
EMERGING CATEGORY
Round 1
Islamabad United: Hunain Shah (Pak)
Peshawar Zalmi: Mohammad Zeeshan (Pak)
Multan Sultans: Yasir Khan (Pak)
Lahore Qalandars: Jahandad Khan (Pak)
Quetta Gladiators: Adil Naz (Pak)
Karachi Kings: Sirajuddin (Pak)
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734948229865676907
Round 2
Quetta Gladiators: Khawaja Muhammad Nafay (Pak)
Lahore Qalandars: Faridoun Mahmood (Pak)
Islamabad United: Ubaid Shah (Pak)
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SUPPLEMENTARY CATEGORY
Round 1
Lahore Qalandars: Shai Hope (WI)
Multan Sultans: Chris Jordan (Eng)
Quetta Gladiators: Akeal Hosein (WI)
Islamabad United: Shamyl Hussain (Pak)
Peshawar Zalmi: Lungi Ngidi (SA)
Karachi Kings: Saad Baig (Pak)
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734955969141240299
Round 2
Peshawar Zalmi: Mehran Mumtaz (Pak)
Lahore Qalandars: Kamran Ghulam (Pak)
Multan Sultans: Aftab Ibrahim (Pak)
Islamabad United: Tom Curran (Eng)
Karachi Kings: Jamie Overton (Eng)
Quetta Gladiators: Sohail Khan (Pak)
https://twitter.com/thePSLt20/status/1734958797028835822
Retentions
https://twitter.com/lahoreqalandars/status/1732776047622672813
Each franchise was allotted a maximum of eight retentions. Barring Multan Sultans – who retained seven players – all franchises made full use of their retentions.
Lahore Qalandars
Shaheen Shah Afridi (Platinum), Haris Rauf (Brand Ambassador) and David Wiese (both Diamond), Sikandar Raza, Abdullah Shafique and Zaman Khan (all Gold), Mirza Tahir Baig (Successful relegation request) and Rashid Khan (both Silver).
Islamabad United
https://twitter.com/IsbUnited/status/1732771014327861456
Shadab Khan and Naseem Shah (both Platinum), Imad Wasim (Mentor) and Azam Khan (both Diamond), Faheem Ashraf (Brand Ambassador), Alex Hales and Colin Munro (all Gold), Rumman Raees (Successful relegation request in Silver).
Multan Sultans
https://twitter.com/MultanSultans/status/1732813222263267769
Mohammad Rizwan and Iftikhar Ahmed (both Platinum), Khushdil Shah and Usama Mir (both Diamond), Abbas Afridi (Gold), Ihsanullah (Brand Ambassador, Silver), Faisal Akram (Emerging).
Karachi Kings
https://twitter.com/KarachiKingsARY/status/1732773745838723492
James Vince and Hasan Ali (Diamond), Shan Masood (Brand Ambassador), Shoaib Malik (Mentor) and Tabraiz Shamsi (all Gold), Mir Hamza (Successful relegation request) and Muhammad Akhlaq (both Silver), Muhammad Irfan Khan (Emerging).
Quetta Gladiators
https://twitter.com/TeamQuetta/status/1732771947187216764
Rilee Rossouw (Platinum), Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Jason Roy and Wanindu Hasaranga (all Diamond), Sarfaraz Ahmed (Brand Ambassador) Abrar Ahmed and Mohammad Hasnain (all Gold), Will Smeed (Silver).
Peshawar Zalmi
https://twitter.com/TeamQuetta/status/1732771947187216764
Babar Azam and Rovman Powell (both Platinum), Saim Ayub and Tom Kohler-Cadmore (all Diamond), Mohammad Haris (Brand Ambassador) and Aamir Jamal (both Gold), Khurram Shahzad (Silver), Haseebullah (Emerging).