2022 Pakistan Super League players draft

List of cricketers

The players draft for the seventh season of Pakistan Super League took place on 12 December 2021 at the High Performance Centre in Lahore.[1][2] Before the draft, the teams were allowed to retain a maximum of 8 players and make any transfers. The transfer and retention window closed on 10 December 2021.[3]

## Background

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The Pakistan Cricket Board announced that Lahore Qalandars will have the first pick.[3] The total purse for each team was capped at $1.2 million.

Each team was also allowed to pick two additional players in the supplementary round. They also had the right to exercise one wildcard pick. In a first in PSL, right-to-match cards were introduced allowing franchises to buy back a maximum of one player that they have released on the draft day by paying the respective fee against each category:[4]

* Platinum ($130,000-$170,000)
* Diamond ($60,000-$80,000)
* Gold ($40,000-$50,000)
* Silver ($15,000-$25,000)
* Emerging ($7,500)

## Transfers

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Shahid Afridi and Englishman James Vince were traded from the Multan Sultans to the Quetta Gladiators. As part of the transfer, the Sultans took Quetta's diamond and silver round picks, respectively.[1] 2021 season's Islamabad United players Iftikhar Ahmed was swapped with Quetta Gladiators' wicket-keeper-batsman Azam Khan,[1] while Hussain Talat was traded to Peshawar Zalmi in return for Zalmi's silver category 2nd round pick.[5]

## Retained players

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On 10 December 2021, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced the retention players list. All the teams were allowed to retain a maximum of 8 players from the previous season.[6] All four franchises fully utilized their quota of eight player retentions apart from Multan Sultans and Quetta Gladiators.[4]

Class  | Islamabad United | Karachi Kings | Lahore Qalandars | Multan Sultans | Peshawar Zalmi | Quetta Gladiators

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Platinum  |

* Asif Ali
* Hasan Ali

* Babar Azam
* Imad Wasim

* Shaheen Afridi
* Rashid Khan

* Mohammad Rizwan
* Rilee Rossouw

* Wahab Riaz
* Liam Livingstone

* James Vince
* Sarfaraz Ahmed

Diamond  |

* Shadab Khan (ambassador)
* Faheem Ashraf

* Mohammad Nabi
* Mohammad Amir

* David Wiese
* Haris Rauf (ambassador)
* Mohammad Hafeez

* Sohaib Maqsood
* Imran Tahir (mentor)

* Shoaib Malik
* Sherfane Rutherford
* Haider Ali

* Iftikhar Ahmed
* Mohammad Nawaz

Gold  |

* Alex Hales (mentor)
* Mohammad Wasim Jr
* Azam Khan

* Joe Clarke (ambassador)
* Sharjeel Khan
* Aamer Yamin

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* Shan Masood
* Khushdil Shah (ambassador)
* Shahnawaz Dahani

* Saqib Mahmood (ambassador)
* Hussain Talat

* Shahid Afridi (mentor)
* Mohammad Hasnain (ambassador)
* Naseem Shah

Silver  |

* Paul Stirling

* Mohammad Ilyas

* Sohail Akhtar
* Zeeshan Ashraf
* Ahmed Daniyal

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* Tom Kohler-Cadmore

## Draft picks

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More than 425 players from 32 countries were registered for the draft.[7] For the emerging category, players should be under 23 as of 1 January 2022 and could have either played less than 10 PSL matches in previous seasons but have not been selected in the national squad.[8]

Class  | Islamabad United | Karachi Kings | Lahore Qalandars | Multan Sultans | Peshawar Zalmi | Quetta Gladiators

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Platinum  |

* Colin Munro

* Chris Jordan

* Fakhar Zaman

* Tim David

* Hazratullah Zazai

* Jason Roy

Diamond  |

* Marchant de Lange

* Lewis Gregory

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* Odean Smith

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* James Faulkner

Gold  |  |  |

* Abdullah Shafique
* Phil Salt
* Harry Brook

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* Usman Qadir

Silver  |

* Muhammad Akhlaq
* Reece Topley
* Danish Aziz
* Zafar Gohar

* Umaid Asif
* Tom Abell
* Rohail Nazir
* Mohammad Imran

* Kamran Ghulam
* Dean Foxcroft

* Rumman Raees
* Anwar Ali
* Asif Afridi
* Rovman Powell
* Imran Khan

* Salman Irshad
* Arshad Iqbal
* Sameen Gul
* Kamran Akmal

* Umar Akmal
* Sohail Tanvir
* Ben Duckett
* Khurram Shahzad
* Naveen-ul-Haq

Emerging  |

* Mubasir Khan
* Zeeshan Zameer[a]

* Faisal Akram
* Qasim Akram[a]

* Zaman Khan
* Maaz Khan

* Abbas Afridi
* Aamer Azmat

* Sirajuddin
* Mohammad Amir Khan

* Abdul Bangalzai
* Ashir Qureshi

Supplementary  |

* Rahmanullah Gurbaz
* Athar Mahmood

* Talha Ahsan
* Romario Shepherd

* Samit Patel
* Syed Faridoun

* Blessing Muzarabani
* Ihsanullah

* Ben Cutting
* Mohammad Haris

* Noor Ahmad
* Ahsan Ali

1. ^ a b Right To Match card (RTM): Player being picked by other franchise in the draft but his previous season franchise used the Right To Match card option under the draft rules to bring back in their squad.

## Replacements

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A replacement player draft took place through a virtual session on 8 January 2022, in which the franchises were also allowed on their request to pick additional two supplementary players.[9][10] The order of selection was decided through random draw, with each team allowed to pick maximum one foreign player. Zalmi and Gladiators, each reserved their one pick;[11] and announced the names on 17 January.[12]

Class  | IU  | KK  | LQ  | MS  | PZ  | QG

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Supplementary  |

* Muhammad Musa
* Zahir Khan

* Sahibzada Farhan
* Jordan Thompson

* Mohammad Imran
* Akif Javed

* David Willey
* Rizwan Hussain

* Mohammad Umar
* Sohail Khan

* Ghulam Mudassar
* Dan Lawrence

Player  | Team  | Replaced with  | Availability  | Reason

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Odean Smith  | MS  | Johnson Charles | Full  | National duty
Naveen-ul-Haq  | QG  | Luke Wood | Personal reason
Tom Abell  | KK  | Ian Cockbain | Personal reason
Romario Shepherd  | Tom Lammonby | National duty
Mohammad Amir Khan  | PZ  | Arish Ali Khan | Injured
Reece Topley  | IU  | Waqas Maqsood | Personal reason
James Vince  | QG  | Will Smeed | Partial  | National duty
Saqib Mahmood  | PZ  | Matt Parkinson | National duty
Phil Salt  | LQ  | Ben Dunk | National duty
Rovman Powell  | MS  | Dominic Drakes | National duty
Jason Roy  | QG  | Shimron Hetmyer | Partial  | National duty
Liam Livingstone  | PZ  | Pat Brown | National duty
Chris Jordan  | KK  | Reserved  | National duty
Zeeshan Zameer  | IU  | Mohammad Huraira | Partial  | Selected in U-19 WC Squads
Qasim Akram  | KK  | Mohammad Taha
Faisal Akram  | Reserved
Noor Ahmad  | QG  | Ali Imran | Partial
Harry Brook  | LQ  | Matty Potts | National duty
Shahid Afridi  | QG  | Hasan Khan | Injured
Paul Stirling  | IU  | Liam Dawson | National duty
Mohammad Nawaz  | QG  | Hasan Khan | Injured
Rashid Khan  | LQ  | Fawad Khan | National duty
Dan Lawrence  | QG  | Will Smeed | Full  | Injured
Mohammad Imran  | KK  | Mir Hamza | Partial  | Injured

Few other replacements were announced afterwards.[13][14] Earlier, players from Cricket South Africa were also in contact to sign in due to cancellation of the 2022 Mzansi Super League,[15] however they were not allowed due to prior commitments of South African cricket team in New Zealand in 2021–22.[16]

List of additional players to be kept in a bio-secure bubble, in case of emergency replacement was announced on 20 January.[17]

## References

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2. ^ "HBL PSL 7 draft to take place on December 12". Cricket Pakistan. Archived from the original on 4 December 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
3. ^ a b "HBL PSL 7: Multan Sultans to open title defence against Karachi Kings". Pakistan Cricket Board. 3 December 2021. Archived from the original on 4 December 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
4. ^ a b Farooq, Umar (10 December 2021). "Fakhar and Akmal released as PSL teams finalise retentions". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 16 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
5. ^ "PSL7 Draft: Big names released as franchises announce retentions list". Samaa TV. 10 December 2021. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
6. ^ "PSL 2022: Franchises finalise player retentions, trades, and releases". Geo News. 10 December 2021. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
7. ^ "PSL Draft 2022: Franchises make their picks for tournament set to begin next month". Geo News. 12 December 2021. Archived from the original on 9 January 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
8. ^ Muthu, Deivarayan (9 December 2021). "Live blog - PSL 2022 draft". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 16 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
9. ^ "HBL PSL 2022: PCB and franchises agree on two additional picks". Pakistan Super League. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
10. ^ "PSL7 mini-draft postponed for a day, say sources". Samaa TV. 7 January 2022. Archived from the original on 7 January 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
11. ^ Ghaffar, Abdul (8 January 2022). "PSL 7: Franchises boost teams with supplementary and replacement draft". Dawn. Archived from the original on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
12. ^ "PSL 7: Peshawar Zalmi confirm partial replacements of Mahmood, Livingstone". Bol News. 17 January 2022. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
13. ^ "PSL7: Lahore Qalandars, Peshawar Zalmi make squad changes". Samaa TV. 19 January 2022. Archived from the original on 19 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
14. ^ "PSL 7: Tom Lammonby replaces Romario Shepherd for Karachi Kings in PSL 2022". Bol News. 20 January 2022. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
15. ^ Ali, Mir Shabbar (5 January 2022). "HBL-Pakistan Super League: Top SA players likely to feature as preparations for Karachi leg finalised". Dawn. Archived from the original on 7 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
16. ^ Rasool, Danyal (8 January 2022). "No PSL NOC for South Africa's contracted players". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
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