A host of international cricket stars from across the cricketing world have made themselves available for the seventh edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) draft.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had earlier announced to host the draft on Sunday, December 12 in Lahore. As per sources, a total of 356 foreign players have registered themselves for the PSL 7 drafts, including some top-of-the-line white-ball cricket stars.
Top T20I bowlers in the International Cricket Council (ICC) bowling rankings, Tabraiz Shamsi, and Rashid Khan are among the players to watch out for during the draft.
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Overall, cricketers from all Test-playing nations, barring India, are part of the players’ list available for the draft.
Foreign Players
Following is the list of some of the foreign players
Platinum Category
Tabraiz Shamsi*, David Miller, Rilee Rossouw, Marchant de Lange (South Africa)
Tymal Mills*, Jason Roy*, James Vince, Liam Livingstone, David Willey (England)
Chris Gayle* (West Indies)
Colin Munro (New Zealand)
Isuru Udana, Thisara Perera (Sri Lanka)
Rashid Khan* (Afghanistan)
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Diamond Category
James Faulkner, Ben Cutting, Ben Dunk (Australia)
Lewis Gregory, Alex Hales, Harry Brook, Joe Clarke, Samit Patel, Dan Lawrence (England)
Imran Tahir, Dane Vilas (South Africa)
David Wiese (Namibia)
Kusal Mendis, Dushmantha Chameera (Sri Lanka)
Fabian Allen, Sherfane Rutherford (West Indies)
Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Najibullah Zadran, Qais Ahmad (Afghanistan)
As per sources, Gold Category has 106 players, while the Silver Category includes 201 cricketers.
Local players
Around 500 local players have been included in Gold, Silver, and Emerging Categories for PSL 7 draft.
Abdullah Shafique, Abid Ali, Ahmed Shehzad, Azhar Ali, Bilal Asif, Fawad Alam, Umar Akmal, Haris Sohail, Junaid Khan, Khurram Manzoor, Rumman Raees, Saud Shakeel, Tabish Khan, and Yasir Shah are some of the players in the Gold category.
* Indicates that a player is available for a limited number of matches only.