PSL 2018 Squade Teams with Player Lists

Pakistan Super League is Pakistan’s professional T-20 cricket league. PSL launched on 8^th of December 2015 in Lahore the 2^nd largest city of Pakistan. PSL was initially launched with 5 teams that are Peshawar Zalmi, Quetta Gladiator, Lahore Qalandar, Islamabad United, Karachi Kings. These five teams played successfully in starting two years of event in 2016 and 2017. Currently there is one change in Psl and that is addition of one more team Multan Sultan and that is the now 6^th team of the Psl.

PSL starts it’s season on every February of the year. First season won by Islamabad united which was played at dubai in 2016. Second psl title was won by Peshawar zalmi which was played at Lahore stadium in 2017.

Now in 2018 it’s again PSL season is going to start in couple of days in which there will six teams contest or compete with each other. 3^rd season of psl starting on 22^nd February of 2018.

PSL 2018 SQUADE

PESHAWAR ZALMI

Player Covers: Umaid Asif (cover for Hasan Ali), Liam Dawson (cover for Shakib al Hasan)

Emerged category players: Khushdil Shah

Players of draft pick: Dwayne Bravo,  Tamim Iqbal, Hammad Azam, Saad Nasim, Taimoor Sultan, Sameen Gul, Ibtisam Sheikh, Dwayne Bravo,

Supplementary players: Khalid Usman, Muhammad Arif, Andre Fletcher, Rikki Wessels (replaced Evin Lewis),

Retained players: Mohammad Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Shakib al Hasan, Kamran Akmal, Darren Sammy, Hasan Ali, Haris Sohail, Chris Jordan, Mohammad Asghar

  

KARACHI KINGS

Retained players: Usama Mir, Usman Khan, Khurram Manzoor, Ravi Bopara, Babar Azam, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Rizwan, Shahid Afridi, Imad Wasim (captain),

Supplementary players: Eoin Morgan, Saifullah Bangash, Lendl Simmons (replaced Colin Munro)

Players of draft pick: David Wiese, Tabish Khan, Mohammad Irfan Jr, Hasan Mohsin, Tymal Mills (replaced Mitchell Johnson), Colin Ingram, Joe Denly (replaced Luke Wright)

Emerging category players: Mushtaq Ahmed Kalhoro, Mohammad Taha

QUETTA GLADIATOR

Supplementary players: Rashid Khan, Moin Khan (jr.), Faraz Ahmed , Jason Roy.

Player Covers: Ben Laughlin (cover for Jofra Archer), John Hastings (replaced Albie Morkel who was a cover for Jason Roy), Chris Green (cover for Rashid Khan)

Players of draft pick: Rahat Ali, Jofra Archer (replaced Carlos Brathwaite), Rameez Raja Jr, Saad Ali, Saud Shakeel, Hassan Khan, Shane Watson.

Emerging category players: Mohammad Junaid.

Retained players: Mohammad Nawaz, Kevin Pietersen, Rilee Rossouw, Anwar Ali, Mahmudullah, Umar Amin, Mir Hamza, Asad Shafiq, Sarfraz Ahmed

LAHORE QALANDAR

Players of draft pick: Ghulam Mudassar, Mustafizur Rehman, Bilal Asif, Raza Hasan, Chris Lynn,Sohail Akhtar, Shaheen Shah Afridi.

Retained players: Sohail Khan, Sunil Narine, Brendon McCullum ,Umar Akmal,  Fakhar Zaman, Yasir Shah, Cameron Delport, Aamer Yamin, Bilawal Bhatt.

Emerging category players: Salman Irshad , Imran Khan Jr.  

Player Covers: Dinesh Ramdin (cover for Mustafizur Rahman)

MULTAN SULTAN

 

Players of draft pick:  Saif Badar , Darren Bravo, Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Abbas, Nicholas Pooran, Imran Tahir,  Abdullah Shafique

Pre-draft players: Sohail Tanvir, Kashif Bhatti, Kieron Pollard, Kumar Sangakkara, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Irfan, Junaid Khan, Sohaib Maqsood, Irfan Khan

Emerging category players: Shan Masood

Player Covers: Thisara Perera (cover for Imran Tahir)

Supplementary players: Umar Gul, Umar Siddiq, Ross Whiteley, Hardus Viljoen.

ISLAMABAD UNITED 

Player Covers: Chadwick Walton (cover for Sam Billings),  Samit Patel (as cover for Asela Gunaratne who was a cover for JP Duminy)

Supplementary players: Steven Finn (replaced David Willey), Mohammad Hasan, Mohammad Hasnain, Alex Hales

Players of  draf pickt: Hussain Talat , Luke Ronchi, Faheem Ashraf, JP Duminy, Sam Billings, Zafar Gohar, Sahibzada Farhan

Retained players: Asif Ali, Rumman Raees, Shadab Khan, Andre Russell, Misbah-ul-Haq, Samuel Badree, Mohammad Sami,  Iftikhar Ahmed, Amad Butt

Emerged category players: Rohail Nazir