2022 Pakistan Super League players draft

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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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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
Platinum
Diamond
Gold
Silver

Draft picks[edit]

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
Platinum
Diamond
Gold
Silver
Emerging
Supplementary
  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[edit]

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
Supplementary
Player Team Replaced with Availability Reason
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[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Bilal, Abu Bakar (9 December 2021). "No longer a Sultan, Shahid Afridi becomes a Gladiator for his farewell PSL season". Dawn. Archived from the original on 16 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  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.
  17. ^ "PCB announce 19 reserved players for PSL 7". A Sports. 20 January 2022. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2022.


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