2018 Pakistan Super League players draft

The 2018 Pakistan Super League player draft was the player draft for third season of the Pakistan Super League, held on 12 November 2017 in Lahore.[1][2] Each franchise was allowed to pick 16 players from total 501 players; including Pakistani and foreign cricketers who took part in the draft. They divided into five different categories; Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver and Emerging and Supplementary.[3] This was Multan Sultans' inaugural season, they were allowed to pick 9 players prior to the draft.

Retained players

The list for the names of 9 retained players in each five teams was announced on 5 October 2017. The new team Multan Sultans picked their 9 pre-draft players from the players released by other franchises, and their names were announced on 10 October.[4][5][6]

Class Islamabad United Karachi Kings Lahore Qalandars Multan Sultans Peshawar Zalmi Quetta Gladiators
Platinum
Diamond
Gold
Silver
Emerging

Transfers

On 3 October 2017, Shahid Afridi's transfer from Zalmi to Kings was confirmed, occupying one Gold and two Silver picks, which was named as the biggest trade of the season.[7] It was also announced on 5 October that the gold pick Mohammad Rizwan had been picked by Kings in trade for the gold pick Sohail Khan to Qalandars.[8] On 6 October, it was reported that United bought Iftikhar Ahmed from Zalmi in exchange of supplementary pick in second round of draft.[9]

Players released

Further players; who played in 2017 PSL, were released by their franchises, who are:[10][9]

Islamabad United Karachi Kings Lahore Qalandars Peshawar Zalmi Quetta Gladiators

New players

On 30 September, Chairman PCB Najam Sethi announced that following players are the new top signings for the league:[11][12]

On 14 October, some more names for the new signed in players were revealed:[13]

It was reported on 20 October that the two players from the China national cricket team were signed in by franchise Zalmi:[14][15]

  • Li Jian
  • Zhang Yufei

Draft picks

A total of 501 players; 193 Pakistani and 308 overseas were a part of the draft. Earlier, each franchise had a purse of US$1.2 million, but then PCB decided to increase the salary cap of each franchise by US$25,000 on 13 November. They were allowed to stack up their squad with a maximum of 21 players by picking them from the categories in following order with a varying range and limit in price:[16]

  • one player each from:
    • Platinum; US$140,000–230,000
    • Diamond; minimum price of US$70,000–85,000
    • Gold; US$50,000–60,000
  • two players each from:
    • Silver; US$22,000–33,000
    • Emerging; US$10,000–12,000
  • up to five players from Supplementary Rounds; they could be called in as replacements for those players who don't agree to play in Pakistan[17][18]

Following players were picked by the franchises in the draft:[19]

Class Islamabad United Karachi Kings Lahore Qalandars Multan Sultans Peshawar Zalmi Quetta Gladiators
Platinum JP Duminy Colin Ingram Chris Lynn Imran Tahir Dwayne Bravo Shane Watson
Diamond Luke Ronchi Mitchell Johnson Mustafizur Rahman Darren Bravo Tamim Iqbal Carlos Brathwaite
Gold Faheem Ashraf Luke Wright Bilal Asif Ahmed Shehzad Hammad Azam Rahat Ali
Silver Round 1 Sam Billings David Wiese Raza Hasan Mohammad Abbas Saad Nasim Rameez Raja
Silver Round 2 Zafar Gohar Tabish Khan Sohail Akhtar Nicholas Pooran Taimur Sultan Saad Ali
Emerging Round 1 [lower-alpha 1] Mohammad Irfan [lower-alpha 1] Abdullah Shafique Sameen Gul Saud Shakeel
Emerging Round 2 Sahibzada Farhan Hasan Mohsin Shaheen Afridi Saif Badar Ibtisam Sheikh Hasan Khan
Round 1 Alex Hales Colin Munro Angelo Mathews Hardus Viljoen Andre Fletcher Jason Roy
Round 2 David Willey Eoin Morgan Mitchell McClenaghan Umar Gul Evin Lewis Rashid Khan
Round 3 Mohammad Hasan Saifullah Bangash Gulraiz Sadaf Umar Siddiq Khalid Usman Azam Khan
Round 4 Mohammad Hasnain Mohammad Taha Imran Khan Ross Whiteley Mohammad Arif Faraz Ahmed
Round 5 Rohail Nazir Mushtaq Ahmed Kalhoro[lower-alpha 2] Salman Irshad[lower-alpha 2] Shan Masood Khushdil Shah Mohammad Junaid[lower-alpha 2]

Replacements

Following players were picked in PSL replacement draft.[20][21][22][23]

Player Team Replaced with Notes
Carlos Brathwaite Quetta Gladiators Jofra Archer unavailable due to national duties
Mahmudullah Quetta Gladiators John Hastings unavailable due to national duties
Mitchell Johnson Karachi Kings Tymal Mills withdrawn (personal reason)
Luke Wright Karachi Kings Joe Denly withdrawn (fitness issues)
Colin Munro Karachi Kings Lendl Simmons Domestic commitments
Angelo Mathews Lahore Qalandars Anton Devcich Injured
Shakib Al Hasan Peshawar Zalmi Sabbir Rahman Injured
Chris Lynn Lahore Qalandars Kyle Abbott[23] Injured

Notes
  1. retained pre-draft pick
  2. Talent Hunt

References
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  11. Faizan Lakhani (30 September 2017). "Chris Lynn, Mitchell Johnson join PSL third edition". Geo News. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  12. Hamza Khan (2 October 2017). "Australian T20 star among five join PSL 3". Business Recorder. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
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  20. "Jofra Archer, Tymal Mills and Lendl Simmons snapped up by PSL franchises in PSL replacement draft". cricbuzz. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  21. "Karachi, Quetta and Lahore pick replacements for unavailable players". Samaa TV. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  22. "Karachi Kings, other franchises pick replacements for unavailable foreign cricketers". ARY News. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
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