2017 Pakistan Super League players draft

The Player Draft for the 2nd season of the Pakistan Super League was held at Dubai on 19 October 2016.[1][2] A total of 414 players, including Pakistani and foreign cricketers, were divided into five different categories: Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver and Emerging.[3] [4] The salary-spending cap for a franchise was US$1.2 million, including the signing of players, coaches and support staff. [5] Each team was allowed to pick eight foreign and 12 domestic players in a squad of up to 20.[6]

Players per country

The number of players appeared in the draft from each country is as follows:[3]

Country Number of Players Country Number of Players
 Pakistan 185  England 70
 West Indies 52  Sri Lanka 27
 Australia 15  Bangladesh 10
 South Africa 15  New Zealand 7
 Afghanistan 9 Other Countries 24

Transfers

The Pakistan Super League player transfer window was between 15 July and 15 September 2016. The following transfers took place.[7]

Player From To
West Indies Cricket Board Chris Gayle Lahore Qalandars Karachi Kings
Pakistan Sohail Tanvir Karachi Kings Lahore Qalandars
Pakistan Babar Azam Islamabad United Karachi Kings
Pakistan Sohaib Maqsood Lahore Qalandars Peshawar Zalmi
Pakistan Aamer Yamin Peshawar Zalmi Lahore Qalandars

Player contracts and salaries

Each player who participates in the PSL is categorized in a group according to their "value", from Platinum class players at the top end through to Emerging class players at the bottom. Salaries in the league are generally determined by the category the player falls into. During the 2017 Pakistan Super League Platinum class players will earn a base salary of US$140,000, Diamond class players US$70,000, Gold class players $50,000, Silver class $25,000 and Emerging players $10,000.

Supplementary players are picked by teams but are not paid unless they join the squad for the tournament at which point their contracts will commence. For Supplementary players there is no contractual base salary.

Retained Players

Following is the list of players retained by their franchises from previous season.[8][9]

Islamabad United Player Category Quetta Gladiators Player Category Peshawar Zalmi Player Category Karachi Kings Player Category Lahore Qalandars Player Category
Misbah-ul-Haq Platinum Sarfraz Ahmed Platinum Shahid Afridi Platinum Shoaib Malik Platinum Umar Akmal Platinum
Shane Watson Platinum Kevin Pieterson Platinum Wahab Riaz Platinum Mohammad Amir Diamond Dwayne Bravo Diamond
Andre Russell Platinum Ahmed Shahzad Platinum Darren Sammy Diamond Ravi Bopara Diamond Mohammad Rizwan Gold
Sharjeel Khan Diamond Luke Wright Diamond Mohammad Hafeez Diamond Imad Wasim Gold Cameron Delport Gold
Mohammad Irfan Diamond Anwar Ali Diamond Tamim Iqbal Gold Sohail Khan Silver Azhar Ali Silver
Samuel Badree Diamond Umar Gul Gold Kamran Akmal Gold Shahzaib Hassan Silver Zafar Gohar Silver
Mohammad Sami Gold Zulfiqar Babar Gold Junaid Khan Silver Saifullah Bangash Silver
Khalid Latif Gold Mohammad Nabi Silver Imran Khan Jr. Silver Usama Mir Supplementary
Brad Haddin Gold Mohammad Nawaz Silver Hassan Ali Emerging
Sam Billings Silver Asad Shafiq Silver Mohammad Asghar Emerging
Saeed Ajmal Silver Saad Nasim Silver
Asif Ali Silver Bismillah Khan Supplementary
Rumman Raees Silver
Imran Khalid Silver
Amad Butt Emerging
Hussain Talat Emerging
Dwayne Smith Supplementary

New Picks

Following is the list of players picked by different teams.[8][10]

Platinum

  1. New Zealand Brendon McCullum
  2. West Indies Cricket Board Sunil Narine
  3. West Indies Cricket Board Kieron Pollard
  4. England Eoin Morgan

Diamond

  1. Pakistan Yasir Shah
  2. West Indies Cricket Board Carlos Brathwaite
  3. Bangladesh Shakib Al Hasan
  4. Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara

Gold

  1. New Zealand Anton Devcich
  2. England Chris Jordan
  3. England Tymal Mills
  4. South Africa Ryan McLaren

Silver

Emerging

  1. Pakistan Abrar Ahmed
  2. Pakistan Hasan Khan
  3. Pakistan Usman Qadir
  4. Pakistan Abdul Ameer
  5. Pakistan Noor Wali
  6. Pakistan Ghulam Mudassar

Supplementary

Supplementary players are those who are picked by their teams as extra players and whose contracts will start only after they join their teams.

References

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