PSL Teams and Squads 2016

PSL Teams 2016

The PSL teams squads will be updated here as soon as they are announced. The Pakistan Super League is finally going to be underway on 4th February 2016. The tournament will be Pakistan’s premier T20 competition, replacing the existing Haier T20 Cup. A total of 5 teams have been proposed to participate in the inaugural edition of the tournament fighting for supremacy. Each team will have 16 players to pick its 11 from. This will include the allowed quota of 5 international players. Since there will just be 20 round robin matches and 4 playoffs; players are expected to retain their fitness in the main and justify the money poured on them.

1) Peshawar Zalmi Squad

2) Islamabad United Squad

3) Karachi Kings Squad

4) Lahore Qalandars Squad

5) Quetta Gladiators Squad

The 5 Pakistan Super League teams are;

• Islamabad United (representing the Islamabad Capital Territory and Punjab province)
• Karachi Kings (representing Sindh province)
• Lahore Qalandars (representing Punjab province)
• Quetta Gladiators (representing Balochistan province)
• Peshawar Zalmi (representing Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province)

Final List by Team

Teams	Draft Picks for 2016 Season
Peshawar Zalmi	Shahid Afridi, Wahab Riaz, Darren Sammy (WI), Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Hafeez, Chris Jordan(ENG), Tamim Iqbal (BAN), Junaid Khan, Jim Allenby (ENG), Aamer Yamin, Dawid Malan (ENG), Imran Khan Jr, Shahid Yousuf, Abdur Rehman, Musadiq Ahmed, Hassan Ali Supplementary: Brad Hodge, Israrullah, Taj Wali
Karachi Kings	Shoaib Malik, Shakib ul Hasan (BAN), Sohail Tanvir, Imad Wasim, Ravi Bopara (ENG), Lendl Simmons (WI), Mohammad Aamir, Bilawal Bhatti, James Vince (ENG), Iftikhar Ahmad, Nauman Anwar, Mushfiqur Rahim (BAN), Usama Mir, Sohail Khan, Mir Hamza, Saifullah Bangash Supplementary: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Shahzaib Hassan, Fawad Alam
Islamabad United	Shane Watson (AUS), Andre Russell (WI), Misbah ul Haq, Samuel Badree (WI), Mohammad Irfan, Brad Haddin (AUS), Sharjeel Khan, Mohammad Sami, Khalid Latif, Babar Azam, Imran Khalid, Kamran Ghulam, Umar Amin, Sam Billings (ENG), Rumman Raees, Amad Butt Supplementary: Ashar Zaidi, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Siddiq
Lahore Qalandars	Chris Gayle (WI), Dwayne Bravo (WI), Umar Akmal, Mohammad Rizwan, Yasir Shah, Sohaib Maqsood, Mustafizur Rehman (BAN), Kevon Cooper (WI), Cameron Delport (RSA), Zafar Gohar, Hammad Azam, Zia-ul-Haq, Zohaib Khan, Azhar Ali, Naved Yasin, Adnan Rasool Supplementary: Abdul Razzaq, Mukhtar Ahmad, Ehsan Adil, Imran Butt
Quetta Gladiators	Kevin Pietersen (ENG), Sarfraz Ahmed, Ahmed Shehzad, Anwar Ali, Jason Holder (WI), Luke Wright (ENG), Zulfiqar Babar, Umar Gul, Elton Chigumbura (ZIM), Bilal Asif, Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Nawaz, Saad Nasim, Mohammad Nabi (AFG), Akbar-ur-Rehman, Bismillah Khan Supplementary: Kumar Sangakkara, Aizaz Cheema, Ramiz Raja Jr.

Pakistan Super League Franchises Sold

PSL franchises sold for 10 year period, all sold out by 3 pm on 3rd December.

• Ary Media Group purchased Karachi for $2.6M.
• Qatar Oil purchased Lahore for $2.4M.
• UAE Capital Venture purchased Islamabad for $1.5M.
• Haier purchased Peshawar for $1.6M.
• Omar Associates purchased Queta for $1.1M.

While the teams are still in the purchase phase, some of the top international have been hired to do business. The likes of Eric Simons, Chaminda Vaas and Mickey Arthur will be around.

Player auction will take place by December. The players and their prices will be based on their experience and their abilities which they have showcased so far. The price for players in different category is as follows:

• Platinum: 20 million rupees
• Diamond: 7 million rupees
• Gold: 5 million rupees
• Silver: 3 million rupees
• Emerging : 2 million rupees

Five of the top 10 T20 all-rounders in the ICC rankings have already signed up for the draft pick for PSL.

Sri Lanka’s Angelo Matthews, Lasith Malinga. Tilakaratne Dilshan and Ajantha Mendis are all signed up for PSL. Thisara Perera is another player who has shown interest.

From West Indies Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo, Sunil Narine and Samuel Badree have expressed interest so far. Chris Gayle has also signed up with the PSL’s pre-draft agreement and will be one of the hot picks of the competition.

New Zealand’s Grant Elliot and James Franklin are expected to be present. South African Richard Levi and Robert Peterson and England’s Tim Bresnan and Michael Carberry are also players who have expressed an interest in the PSL.

Recently, it has been reported that Kevin Pietersen has signed up for the PSL Draft as well. Brad Haddin and Brad Hodge are the two players from Australia who have shown interest to sign up for the PSL Draft.

While PSL has been getting shelved for long, owing to security concerns; this time it was the concurrent holding of Masters Champions League which spelt a threat. Incidentally, the MCL will be held at Abu Dhabi, while PSL will find its crowning glory in Dubai and Sharjah in the UAE.

There will be 24 matches in all and the tournament will be played in double round robin format before the business end or the playoffs. Long hitters and artistic bowlers from around the world will take part in the competition. Efforts are on to plug all holes in the coming months to ensure a smooth tournament.

The country has a strong cricketing heritage and keeps dishing out prominent players on the scene. The country’s capacity at hurling fast bowlers on the cricketing arena is almost incredible. The administrators are tweaking last-minute changes to ensure that everything is hunky dory.