2021 Kashmir Premier League players draft

List of cricketers

2021 KPL Draft

General information
Sport| Cricket
Date(s)| 3 July 2021
Location| Tulip Banquet Hall
Islamabad, Pakistan
Overview
League| Kashmir Premier League
Teams| 6
First selection| Herschelle Gibbs, Overseas Warriors

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The players draft for the 2021 Kashmir Premier League took place on 3 July 2021 at the Tulip Banquet Hall in Islamabad.[1] A total of 413 players signed up for the KPL. The players were divided into 7 categories: Icon, Overseas, Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver and Emerging.[2] The emerging category was further divided into Overseas Kashmiris, Local Kashmiris and Non-Kashmiris.[3] Each team chose 1 Icon player, 1 Overseas player, 1 Platinum player, 2 Diamond players, 2 Gold players, 3 Silver players and 5 Emerging players. Many people attended the draft including Chairman of the Kashmir Committee Shehryar Khan Afridi, Senator Faisal Javed, President of the KPL: Arif Malik and CEO of the KPL: Chaudhary Shahzad Akhtar.[4]

## Players signed up per country

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Country  | Number of Players

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Pakistan | 364
England | 25
United Arab Emirates | 9
South Africa | 3
Australia | 2
Canada | 2
Bahrain | 1
Germany | 1
Hong Kong | 1
Italy | 1
Sri Lanka | 1
Turkey | 1
United States | 1
West Indies | 1
Total  | 413

## Draft picks

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Herschelle Gibbs was the first player to be picked in the draft.[5] Shan Masood was the first non-foreign player to be picked in the draft. The icon players had already been signed prior to the draft.

Category  | Pick No.  | Team  | Nationality  | Name

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Overseas | 1  | Overseas Warriors |  South Africa | Herschelle Gibbs
2  | Bagh Stallions |  England | Phil Mustard
3  | Rawalakot Hawks |  England | Matt Prior
4  | Mirpur Royals |  England | Owais Shah
5  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Sri Lanka | Tillakaratne Dilshan
6  | Kotli Lions |  England | Monty Panesar
Platinum | 1  | Bagh Stallions |  Pakistan | Shan Masood
2  | Kotli Lions |  Pakistan | Kamran Akmal
3  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Pakistan | Sohail Tanvir
4  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Sharjeel Khan
5  | Overseas Warriors |  Pakistan | Haider Ali
6  | Rawalakot Hawks |  Pakistan | Mohammad Hasnain
Diamond | 1  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Pakistan | Sohaib Maqsood
2  | Kotli Lions |  Pakistan | Asif Ali
3  | Bagh Stallions |  Pakistan | Iftikhar Ahmed
4  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Khushdil Shah
5  | Rawalakot Hawks |  Pakistan | Hussain Talat
6  | Overseas Warriors |  Pakistan | Sohail Khan
7  | Rawalakot Hawks |  Pakistan | Ahmed Shehzad
8  | Overseas Warriors |  Pakistan | Azam Khan
9  | Kotli Lions |  Pakistan | Usman Qadir
10  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Pakistan | Mohammad Wasim
11  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Mohammad Irfan
12  | Bagh Stallions |  Pakistan | Umaid Asif
Gold | 1  | Overseas Warriors |  Pakistan | Muhammad Musa
2  | Rawalakot Hawks |  Pakistan | Danish Aziz
3  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Pakistan | Arshad Iqbal
4  | Bagh Stallions |  Pakistan | Rohail Nazir
5  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Salman Irshad
6  | Kotli Lions |  Pakistan | Imran Khan
7  | Rawalakot Hawks |  Pakistan | Waqas Maqsood
8  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Pakistan | Zeeshan Ashraf
9  | Bagh Stallions |  Pakistan | Mohammad Ilyas
10  | Kotli Lions |  Pakistan | Akif Javed
11  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Amad Butt
12  | Overseas Warriors |  Pakistan | Haris Sohail
Silver | 1  | Rawalakot Hawks |  Pakistan | Zafar Gohar
2  | Kotli Lions |  Pakistan | Khalid Usman
3  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Pakistan | Sohail Akhtar
4  | Overseas Warriors |  Pakistan | Qasim Akram
5  | Bagh Stallions |  Pakistan | Mohammad Imran
6  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Mukhtar Ahmed
7  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Pakistan | Usama Mir
8  | Overseas Warriors |  Pakistan | Hammad Azam
9  | Kotli Lions |  Pakistan | Irfanullah Shah
10  | Bagh Stallions |  Pakistan | Zeeshan Malik
11  | Rawalakot Hawks |  Pakistan | Bismillah Khan
12  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Abrar Ahmed
13  | Rawalakot Hawks |  Pakistan | Mohammad Imran Randhawa
14  | Kotli Lions |  Pakistan | Junaid Ali
15  | Overseas Warriors |  Pakistan | Abbas Afridi
16  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Pakistan | Anwar Ali
17  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Muhammad Akhlaq
18  | Bagh Stallions |  Pakistan | Usman Mughal
Emerging | 1  | Kotli Lions |  United States | Abdullah Syed
2  | Bagh Stallions |  Pakistan | Zeeshan Zameer
3  | Rawalakot Hawks |  England | Kashif Ali
4  | Overseas Warriors |  Pakistan | Rashid Naseer
5  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Pakistan | Arsalan Arif
6  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Shadab Majeed
7  | Bagh Stallions |  England | Furqan Shafique
8  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Danyal Allah Ditta
9  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Pakistan | Tahir Hussain
10  | Overseas Warriors |  England | Uthman Ali Khan
11  | Kotli Lions |  Pakistan | Syed Hashim Ali
12  | Rawalakot Hawks |  United Arab Emirates | Faisal Altaf
13  | Kotli Lions |  Pakistan | Hasan Raza
14  | Bagh Stallions |  Pakistan | Sufyan Moqeem
15  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Mohammad Taha
16  | Rawalakot Hawks |  Pakistan | Zaman Khan
17  | Overseas Warriors |  Pakistan | Naveed Malik
18  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Pakistan | Inzamam-ul-Haq
19  | Overseas Warriors |  Pakistan | Waleed Ahmed
20  | Kotli Lions |  Pakistan | Yasir Jan
21  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Ibtesam-ul-Haq
22  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  England | Usman Arshad
23  | Rawalakot Hawks |  Pakistan | Samiullah Afridi
24  | Bagh Stallions |  Pakistan | Mohammad Junaid
25  | Kotli Lions |  Pakistan | Abdul Rehman
26  | Muzaffarabad Tigers |  Pakistan | Taimoor Sultan
27  | Rawalakot Hawks |  Pakistan | Shahid Ilyas
28  | Bagh Stallions |  Pakistan | Aamir Sohail
29  | Mirpur Royals |  Pakistan | Ammad Alam
30  | Overseas Warriors |  Pakistan | Raza-ul-Mustafa

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## Draft summary

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The following is the summary of the teams.

Category  | Bagh Stallions | Kotli Lions | Mirpur Royals | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Overseas Warriors | Rawalakot Hawks

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Icon  |

* Shadab Khan

* Fakhar Zaman

* Shoaib Malik

* Mohammad Hafeez

* Imad Wasim

* Shahid Afridi

Overseas  |

* Phil Mustard

* Monty Panesar

* Owais Shah

* Tillakaratne Dilshan

* Herschelle Gibbs

* Matt Prior

Platinum  |

* Shan Masood

* Kamran Akmal

* Sharjeel Khan

* Sohail Tanvir

* Haider Ali

* Mohammad Hasnain

Diamond  |

* Iftikhar Ahmed
* Umaid Asif

* Asif Ali
* Usman Qadir

* Khushdil Shah
* Mohammad Irfan

* Mohammad Wasim
* Sohaib Maqsood

* Azam Khan
* Sohail Khan

* Ahmed Shehzad
* Hussain Talat

Gold  |

* Mohammad Ilyas
* Rohail Nazir

* Akif Javed
* Imran Khan

* Amad Butt
* Salman Irshad

* Arshad Iqbal
* Zeeshan Ashraf

* Haris Sohail
* Muhammad Musa

* Sahibzada Farhan
* Danish Aziz

Silver  |

* Mohammad Imran
* Zeeshan Malik
* Usman Mughal

* Irfanullah Shah
* Junaid Ali
* Khalid Usman

* Abrar Ahmed
* Muhammad Akhlaq
* Mukhtar Ahmed

* Anwar Ali
* Sohail Akhtar
* Usama Mir

* Asif Afridi
* Nasir Nawaz
* Qasim Akram

* Mohammad Imran Randhawa
* Mohammad Irfan
* Zafar Gohar

Emerging  |

* Aamir Sohail
* Furqan Shafique
* Mohammad Junaid
* Sufyan Moqeem
* Zeeshan Zameer

* Abdul Rehman
* Abdullah Syed
* Hasan Raza
* Syed Hashim Ali
* Yasir Jan

* Ammad Alam
* Danyal Allah Ditta
* Ibtesam-ul-Haq
* Mohammad Taha
* Shadab Majeed

* Arsalan Arif
* Inzamam-ul-Haq
* Taimoor Sultan
* Tahir Hussain
* Usman Arshad

* Naveed Malik
* Rashid Naseer
* Raza-ul-Mustafa
* Uthman Ali Khan
* Waleed Ahmed

* Faisal Altaf
* Kashif Ali
* Samiullah Afridi
* Shahid Ilyas
* Zaman Khan

## Post draft signings

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Players  | Pre-Draft Category

|

Asad Shafiq | Platinum
Usman Shinwari
Aamer Yamin | Gold
Agha Salman
Kamran Ghulam
Sameen Gul
Umar Amin
Adil Amin | Silver
Ahsan Ali
Asif Afridi
Hasan Khan
Kashif Bhatti
Khurram Shahzad
Mohammad Haris
Saif Badar
Basit Ali  | Emerging
Faizan Saleem
Malik Nisar
Mujtaba Ghayyas
Nadeem Khalil
Najeebullah Afridi
Raja Farhan Khan
Raja Shahzad
Usman Yousuf

## References

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1. ^ "Kashmir Premier League Draft".
2. ^ "Kashmir Premier League names categories for players' drafting". Khilari. 30 June 2021.
3. ^ "Introducing the Emerging Category of players for the KPL Draft". kpl20.com.
4. ^ "Kashmir Premier League kicks-off with mega draft event". Daily Pakistan. 5 July 2021.
5. ^ "KPL 2021 Draft". Cricsload.
6. ^ "Kashmir Premier League 2021 complete squads for all teams". cricketholicpk.com. 4 July 2021.

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