With the Pakistan Super League revolving just around the corner, the PSL 8 draft took place on December 15th (today) in Karachi, seeing all six franchises winding up their squads. Among 61 slots available to fulfil from a pool of around 1000 players, including 491 local and 571 international cricketers, all six franchises have made wise choices to finalize the star-studded squads.
Earlier, five of the six teams retained eight players, whereas, Zalmi retained seven of their players. Starting from platinum round one, as decided earlier, defending champions Lahore Qalandars had the first pick, followed by Quetta Gladiators, Multan Sultans, Karachi Kings, Islamabad United, and Peshawar Zalmi having the next picks sequentially.
Here are the category-vice complete squads for all six teams:
Islamabad United:
Platinum: Shadab Khan, Alex Hales, Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Diamond: Asif Ali, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Fazalhaq Farooqi
Gold: Hasan Ali, Azam Khan, Faheem Ashraf
Silver: Paul Stirling, Colin Munro, Abrar Ahmed, Sohaib Maqsood, Rumman Raees
Emerging: Zeeshan Zameer, Hassan Nawaz
Supplementary: Mubasir Khan, Moeen Ali
Karachi Kings:
Platinum: Haider Ali, Matthew Wade, Imran Tahir
Diamond: Shoaib Malik, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Amir, James Vince, James Fuller
Gold: Andrew Tye
Silver: Sharjeel Khan, Mir Hamza, Aamer Yamin, Tayyab Tahir, Mohammad Akhlaq
Emerging: Qasim Akram, Imran Khan Niazi
Supplementary: Tabraiz Shamsi, Muhammad Umar
Lahore Qalandars:
Platinum: Shaheen Shah Afridi, Rashid Khan, Fakhar Zaman
Diamond: Haris Rauf, David Wiese, Hussain Talat
Gold: Abdullah Shafiq, Liam Dawson, Sikandar Raza
Silver: Kamran Ghulam, Harry Brook, Dilbar Hussain, Mirza Tahir, Ahmed Daniyal
Emerging: Zaman Khan, Shahwaiz Irfan
Supplementary: Jalat Khan, Jordan Cox
Multan Sultans:
Platinum: Mohammad Rizwan, David Miller, Josh Little
Diamond: Shan Masood, Khushdil Shah, Rilee Rossouw
Gold: Shahnawaz Dahani, Tim David, Akeal Hossein
Silver: Usama Mir, Usman Khan, Sameen Gul, Anwar Ali, Mohammad Sarwar Afridi
Emerging: Ihsanullah, Abbas Afridi
Supplementary: Arafat Minhas, Adil Rashid
Peshawar Zalmi:
Platinum: Babar Azam, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Rovman Powell
Diamond: Wahab Riaz, Sherfane Rutherford, Mujeeb ur Rehman
Gold: Mohammad Haris, Danish Aziz, Arshad Iqbal
Silver: Salman Irshad, Aamir Jamal, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Saim Ayub, Usman Qadir
Emerging: Sufyan Muqeem, Haseebullah Khan
Supplementary: James Neesham
Quetta Gladiators:
Platinum: Mohammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah, Wanindu Hasaranga
Diamond: Jason Roy, Iftikhar Ahmed, Odean Smith
Gold: Mohammad Hasnain, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Ahsan Ali
Silver: Umar Akmal, Naveen ul Haq, Will Smeed, Umaid Asif, Mohammad Zahid
Emerging: Abdul Waheed Bangalzai, Aimal Khan
Supplementary: Omair Bin Yousuf, Martin Guptill
