The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced the PSL draft 2020 edition on 6th December 2019. Both foreign and local players are assigned to the Diamond, Platinum, Silver, Gold and Emerging categories. The 325 local players include all players from the domestic 1st and 2nd XI squads and U19 players. Besides this year’s policy, cricketers who have represented Pakistan in international games are assigned in the Gold category.
HBL PSL 2020 always focus to promote young talent. For that reason, each team must include at least 2 emerging players in their sixteen-player squad. Every team can nominate up to 6 emerging players and at least 2 talent hunt discoveries.
The number of players in the Gold category includes 48 England, 10 Bangladesh, 40 West Indies, 6 Afghanistan, 19 Sri Lanka, 4 New Zealand, 4 Australia, 3 Ireland, 3 South Africa, 3 Zimbabwe and one each from the Netherlands, Canada, United States, and Scotland.
PSL 2020 Players Price
- Platinum: (Base Price $147,000, Maximum Price $2,18,000- Each tam can pick 3 Platinum players)
- Diamond: (Base Price $44,000, Maximum Price $103,000- Each team can pick 3 Diamond players)
- Gold : (Base price $44,000, Maximum price $58,000- each team can pick 3 Gold players)
- Silver: (Base price $15,000, Maximum price $35,000- each team can pick 5 Silver players)
- Emerging: (Base price $6,500, Maximum price $9,500- each team can pick 2 emerging players )
Pakistan Super League PSL Draft 2020 Edition
The draft of PSL 5 was held on 6th December 2019. The players are divided into five categories that include
Quetta Gladiator
Platinum: Mohammad Nawaz, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Jason Roy
Diamond: Shane Watson (mentor), Ahmed Shehzad, Ben Cutting
Gold: Umar Akmal (ambassador), Mohammad Hasnain, Fawad Ahmed
Silver: Ahsan Ali, Naseem Shah, Sohail Khan, Tymal Mills, Abdul Nasir
Emerging: Arish Ali Khan, Azam Khan
Supplementary: Keemo Paul, Khurram Manzoor
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Lahore Qalandars
Platinum: Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Hafeez, Chris Lynn
Diamond: Shaheen Shah Afridi (brand ambassador), David Wiese, Usman Shinwari
Gold: Haris Rauf, Sohail Akhtar, Samit Patel
Silver: Salman Butt, Seekkuge Prsanna, Ben Dunk, Farzan Raja, Jaahid Ali
Emerging: M Faizan
Supplementary: Lendl Simmons, Dilbar Hussain
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Multan Sultans
Platinum: Mohammad Irfan, Moeen Ali, Rilee Rossouw
Diamond: Shahid Afridi (mentor), Zeeshan Ashraf, Ravi Bopara
Gold: James Vince (brand ambassador), Junaid Khan, Sohail Tanvir
Silver: Ali Shafiq, Shan Masood, Khushdil Shah, Usman Qadir, Fabian Allen
Emerging: Mohammad Ilyas, Rohail Nazir
Supplementary: Imran Tahir, Bilawal Bhatti
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Islamabad United
Platinum: Shadab Khan, Dale Steyn, Colin Ingram
Diamond: Faheem Ashraf (brand ambassador), Asif Ali, Colin Munro
Gold: Luke Ronchi (mentor), Hussain Talat, Rumman Raees
Silver: Amad Butt, Musa Khan, Rizwan Hussain, Zafar Gohar, Phil Salt
Emerging: Aqif Javed, Ahmed Safi Abdullah
Supplementary: Saif Badar, Rassie van der Dussen
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Peshawar Zalmi
Platinum: Hasan Ali, Kieron Pollard, Wahab Riaz
Diamond: Kamran Akmal (brand ambassador), Tom Banton, Shoaib Malik
Gold: Darren Sammy (mentor), Imam-ul-Haq, Liam Dawson
Silver: Umar Amin, Mohammad Mohsin, Rahat Ali, Dwaine Pretorius, Adil Amin
Emerging: Amir Khan, Amir Ali
Supplementary: Liam Livingstone, Haider Ali Khan
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Karachi Kings
Platinum: Babar Azam, Mohammad Amir, Alex Hales,
Diamond: Imad Wasim (brand ambassador), Iftikhar Ahmed, Chris Jordan
Gold: Aamir Yamin, Sharjeel Khan, Cameron Delport
Silver: Usama Mir, Mohammad Rizwan, Umaid Asif, Dan Lawrance, Ali Khan
Emerging: Umer Khan, Arshad Iqbal
Supplementary: Liam Plunkett, Awais Zia
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PSL Draft Rules:
According to 2019 PSL draft policy, each tournament team can keep up to 8 players from last year’s schedule. In 16 members’ groups, five foreign players not changed from the previous year edition of HBL PSL.
Each team will be allowed to take two additional players; one can be a foreigner player.
In best Eleven, each team will have the feasibility to take at least three foreign players and a maximum of four.
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