PSL season five, Lahore Qalandars added Chris Lane to the squad, Quetta Gladiator picked Jason Roy, Islamabad picked Dale Steyn.
In the first round of the draft in the fifth edition of Pakistan Super League (PSL), Quetta Gladiator selected Jason Roy in the platinum category, in the first round of the platinum category, Lahore Qalandars selected Australia’s Chris Lane, in the platinum category Multan Sultan selected England’s Moeen Ali in the third pick of the first round, Islamabad United selected South African bowler Dale Steyn in the fourth pick of the first round of the platinum category, Karachi Kings in the fifth pick of the first round of the platinum category. selected England’s Alex Hales.
Earlier, each franchise had decided to retain 8 players from the previous squad until the retention and transfer window closed on December 1, now each team has to form a squad of minimum 16 and maximum 18 players These will include 3 Platinum, 3 Diamond, 3 Gold, 5 Silver, 2 Emerging and 2 Supplementary (Optional) players.
Each franchise has to pick 3 foreign players in the first 9 rounds, 11 local and 5 foreign players must be included in the 16 member squad, however, the players in the final squad can be arranged in 2 orders either 12 local and 6 foreign players or Then 13 local and 5 foreign players will join.
Each franchise may appoint one player as ambassador and one as mentor, demoted one level in their category on retention. According to the pick order for the first round, the defending champions Quetta Gladiators are first, Lahore Qalandars second, Multan Sultans third, 2-time champions Islamabad United fourth, Peshawar Zalmi fifth and Karachi Kings sixth.
It should be remembered that till December 1, Multan Sultans have Mohammad Irfan (Platinum), Shahid Afridi (Diamond, Player Mentor), James Vance (Gold, Brand Ambassador), Junaid Khan (Gold), Shan Masood (Silver), Ali Shafiq (Silver). And retaining Muhammad Ilyas (Emerging), Shoaib Malik, Nouman Ali, Muhammad Abbas, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Umar Siddique, Muhammad Junaid, Shakeel Ansar, Hammad Azam, Laurie Evans, Dan Kirsten, Tom Morris, Chris Green, Johnson Charles, Nicholas Puran, Joe Danley and Qais Ahmed were released.
Steve Smith and Andre Russell are unavailable. Quetta Gladiators have added Sarfraz Ahmed (Platinum), Mohammad Nawaz (Platinum), Shane Watson (Diamond, Player Mentor), Ahmed Shehzad (Diamond), Umar Akmal (Gold, Brand Ambassador), Mohammad Hasnain. (Gold), Naseem Shah (Silver) and Ehsan Ali (Silver) retained, Sohail Tanveer, Anwar Ali, Saud Shakeel, Muhammad Asghar, Danish Aziz, Ghulam Mudassar, Muhammad Azam Khan, Jalat Khan, Muhammad Irfan Jr., Dion Bravo. , Fawad Ahmed, Riley Russo, Devin Smith, Harry Gurney and Max Weller were released.
Karachi Kings retained Babar Azam (Platinum), Muhammad Amir (Platinum), Imad Wasim (Diamond, Brand Ambassador), Iftikhar Ahmed (Diamond), Aamir Yameen (Gold), Osama Mir (Silver) and Umar Khan (Emerging) while retaining Usman. Shinwari, Mohammad Rizwan, Owais Zia, Sohail Khan, Ali Imran, Abrar Ahmed, Jahid Ali, Colin Munro, Colin Ingram, Sikandar Raza, Ravi Bopara, Aaron Summers, Ben Dunk and Liam Livingstone were released.
Islamabad United appointed Shadab Khan (Platinum), Faheem Ashraf (Diamond, Brand Ambassador), Asif Ali (Diamond), Lok Ronki (Gold, Mentor), Hussain Talat (Gold), Imad Butt (Silver), Rizwan Hussain ( Silver) and Musa Khan (Silver), retaining Muhammad Sami, Raman Raees, Waqas Maqsood, Zafar Gohar, Sahibzada Farhan, Nasir Nawaz, EN Bell, Samit Patel, Philip Salt, Cameron Delport, Wayne Parnell, Alex Hales, Chadwick. Walton and Zahir Khan were released.
Lahore Qalandars signed Fakhar Zaman (Platinum), Muhammad Hafeez (Platinum), David Wiese (Diamond), Shaheen Shah Afridi (Diamond, Brand Ambassador), Usman Shinwari (Diamond, transfer from Karachi Kings), Sohail Akhtar (Gold), Haris Rauf. (Gold) and Salman Butt (Silver) retaining Yasir Shah, Rahat Ali, Agha Salman, Hasan Khan, Haris Sohail, Muhammad Imran, Umeer Masood, Gohar Ali, Aizaz Cheema, Saad Ali, Carlos Braithwaite, Sandeep Lamichaine. , Anton Devitch, Brandon Taylor, Hardus Valjoen, Gunawardtne and Ricky Wessels were released.
AB de Villiers, Corey Anderson and Ryan Tan are unavailable. Peshawar Zalmi has replaced Wahab Riaz (Platinum), Hasan Ali (Platinum), Kieron Pollard (Platinum), Kamran Akmal (Diamond, Brand Ambassador), Darren Sammy (Gold, Player Mentor). ), retained Imam-ul-Haq (Gold) and Umar Amin (Silver), Misbah-ul-Haq unavailable while Sohaib Maqsood, Jamal Anwar, Umeed Asif, Khalid Usman, Samin Gul, Nabi Gul, Ibtisam Sheikh, Samiullah, Kieron Pollard, Liam Dawson, Lendell Simmons, Wayne Madsen, Tymal Mills, Andre Fletcher, David Mullan, Chris Jordan and Waqar Salamkhel were released.
It should be remembered that the fifth edition of Pakistan Super League will be played in four cities of the country in February and March next year.
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