en 2022 Kashmir Premier League players draft

2022 KPL Draft
2022 KPL Draft
General information
Sport	Cricket
Date(s)	21 July 2022
Location	Aura Grande Enclave; Islamabad, Pakistan
Overview
League	Kashmir Premier League
Teams	7
First selection	Faheem Ashraf, Jammu Janbaz
	← 2021

The players draft for the 2022 Kashmir Premier League took place on 21 July 2022. The players were divided into 7 categories: Icon, Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver, Emerging and Kashmiri. Each team chose 2 platinum players, 2 diamond players, 2 gold players, 4 silver players, 2 emerging players and 5 Kashmiri players. The 2022 KPL did not feature foreign players.^[1]

Key

Symbol	Meaning
†	Player was traded
♠	Player was part of the base squad of their team

Background

The franchises all announced their icon players prior to the draft. Kamran Akmal was announced as Bagh Stallions’ icon player.^[2] Sharjeel Khan was announced as Jammu Janbaz’s icon player.^[3]^[4] Former Pakistani captain, Sarfaraz Ahmed, was announced as Kotli Lions’ captain.^[5]^[6] Mirpur Royals retained Shoaib Malik as their icon player.^[7] Muzaffarabad Tigers also retained Mohammad Hafeez as their icon player.^{[citation needed]} Overseas Warriors selected Asad Shafiq as their icon player.^[8] Rawalakot Hawks announced that Mohammad Amir would be their icon player.^[9]^[10] The PCB was giving permission to draft foreign players who retired at least 5 years ago but the franchises were not interested in drafting them.^[11] The KPL president, Arif Malik, confirmed that the centrally contracted players chosen for the Netherlands tour would not participate in the KPL but they were requesting if the remaining contracted players could play.^[11] The PCB later allowed Fawad Alam, Azhar Ali, Abid Ali, Nauman Ali, Haseebullah, Mohammad Huraira and Ali Usman to participate in the tournament.^[12] Later, Sarfaraz Ahmed was also granted permission to play in the KPL.^[13] Khurram Manzoor was announced as Kotli Lions’ icon player.^[14]

Base squads

Each franchise released a “Base Squad” prior to the draft. These were the 4-5 players that each franchise was retaining. Muzaffarabad Tigers and Bagh Stallions traded Sohaib Maqsood for Iftikhar Ahmed in their base squads.^[15]

Bagh Stallions	Jammu Janbaz	Kotli Lions	Mirpur Royals	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Overseas Warriors	Rawalakot Hawks
Kamran Akmal (Icon) Sohaib Maqsood† (Platinum) Aamer Yamin (Diamond) Mohammad Imran (Gold)	Sharjeel Khan (Icon) Shahid Afridi (Platinum) Sahibzada Farhan (Diamond) Umar Akmal (Diamond) Mehran Mumtaz (Kashmiri)	Khurram Manzoor (Icon) Ahsan Ali (Diamond) Khurram Shahzad (Diamond) Irfanullah Shah (Gold) Khalid Usman (Gold)	Shoaib Malik (Icon) Salman Irshad (Diamond) Muhammad Akhlaq (Gold) Abrar Ahmed (Gold)	Mohammad Hafeez (Icon) Iftikhar Ahmed† (Platinum) Anwar Ali (Diamond) Zeeshan Ashraf (Gold) Arshad Iqbal (Gold)	Asad Shafiq (Icon) Azam Khan (Platinum) Kamran Ghulam (Platinum) Sohail Khan (Diamond)	Mohammad Amir (Icon) Ahmed Shehzad (Platinum) Hussain Talat (Platinum) Zaman Khan (Diamond) Asif Afridi (Diamond)

^[16]^[17]

Picks

Every team had a “Wild Card” which allowed them to move a player’s category up by one or two categories. Each team also had a “Right to Match” card which allowed them to change a player’s category to the one they are picked in instead of the one they were listed in.

Category	Pick No.	Team	Player
Platinum	1	Jammu Janbaz	Faheem Ashraf
	2	Rawalakot Hawks	Ahmed Shehzad
	3	Mirpur Royals	Imad Wasim
	4	Overseas Warriors	Azam Khan
	5	Bagh Stallions	Rumman Raees
	6	Kotli Lions	Danish Aziz
	7	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Sohail Tanvir
	8	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Iftikhar Ahmed
	9	Kotli Lions	Sarfaraz Ahmed
	10	Bagh Stallions	Sohaib Maqsood
	11	Overseas Warriors	Kamran Ghulam
	12	Mirpur Royals	Haris Sohail
	13	Rawalakot Hawks	Hussain Talat
	14	Jammu Janbaz	Shahid Afridi
Diamond	1	Bagh Stallions	Umar Amin
	2	Kotli Lions	Ahsan Ali
	3	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Haseebullah Khan
	4	Jammu Janbaz	Umar Akmal
	5	Rawalakot Hawks	Asif Afridi
	6	Mirpur Royals	Ali Imran
	7	Overseas Warriors	Imran Randhawa
	8	Overseas Warriors	Sohail Khan
	9	Mirpur Royals	Salman Irshad
	10	Rawalakot Hawks	Zaman Khan
	11	Jammu Janbaz	Sahibzada Farhan
	12	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Anwar Ali
	13	Kotli Lions	Khurram Shehzad
	14	Bagh Stallions	Aamer Yamin
Gold	1	Kotli Lions	Irfanullah Shah
	2	Overseas Warriors	Umaid Asif
	3	Bagh Stallions	Kashif Bhatti
	4	Jammu Janbaz	Usama Mir
	5	Mirpur Royals	Abrar Ahmed
	6	Rawalakot Hawks	Amad Butt
	7	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Zeeshan Ashraf
	8	Mirpur Royals	Muhammad Akhlaq
	9	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Arshad Iqbal
	10	Overseas Warriors	Saif Badar
	11	Bagh Stallions	Mohammad Imran
	12	Rawalakot Hawks	Bismillah Khan
	13	Jammu Janbaz	Akif Javed
	14	Kotli Lions	Khalid Usman
Silver	1	Rawalakot Hawks	Zeeshan Malik
	2	Jammu Janbaz	Imran Khan
	3	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Mir Hamza
	4	Kotli Lions	Mushtaq Kalhoro
	5	Bagh Stallions	Mohammad Sarwar
	6	Mirpur Royals	Kashif Ali
	7	Overseas Warriors	Adil Amin
	8	Rawalakot Hawks	Musadiq Ahmed
	9	Jammu Janbaz	Umar Siddiq
	10	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Ahmed Safi Abdullah
	11	Kotli Lions	Hassan Khan
	12	Bagh Stallions	Sharoon Siraj
	13	Mirpur Royals	Hamza Arshad
	14	Overseas Warriors	Bilal Asif
	15	Mirpur Royals	Zubair Lodhi
	16	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Salman Fayyaz
	17	Overseas Warriors	Ali Shafiq
	18	Bagh Stallions	Ahmed Jamal
	19	Rawalakot Hawks	Faisal Akram
	20	Jammu Janbaz	Ahmed Khan
	21	Kotli Lions	Hanif Azad
	22	Kotli Lions	Hasan Mohsin
	23	Overseas Warriors	Muhammad Shehzad
	24	Bagh Stallions	Atizaz Habib Khan
	25	Jammu Janbaz	Shahzab
	26	Mirpur Royals	Zaid Alam
	27	Rawalakot Hawks	Ammad Alam
	28	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Taimoor Sultan
Emerging	1	Overseas Warriors	Umer Zeeshan
	2	Mirpur Royals	Hassan Nawaz
	3	Rawalakot Hawks	Saeedullah
	4	Jammu Janbaz	Hamza Shah Afridi
	5	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Aaqib Liaquat
	6	Kotli Lions	Imran Shah
	7	Bagh Stallions	Maaz Khan
	8	Bagh Stallions	Sajjad Ali
	9	Kotli Lions	Irfan Ali Qasmi
	10	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Amir Khan
	11	Jammu Janbaz	Samiullah Afridi
	12	Rawalakot Hawks	Ihsanullah
	13	Mirpur Royals	Ali Razzaq
	14	Overseas Warriors	Khawaja Muhammad
Kashmiri	1	Overseas Warriors	Farhan Shafiq
	2	Mirpur Royals	Shadab Majeed
	3	Rawalakot Hawks	Zain-ul-Hassan
	4	Jammu Janbaz	Mehran Mumtaz
	5	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Aqib Ilyas
	6	Kotli Lions	Zayyan Khan
	7	Bagh Stallions	Hasan Raza
	8	Kotli Lions	Basit Ali
	9	Jammu Janbaz	Naqash Basharat
	10	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Saad Bin Zafar
	11	Bagh Stallions	Daniyal Allah Ditta
	12	Mirpur Royals	Sufyan Moqim
	13	Overseas Warriors	Hannan Ahmed
	14	Rawalakot Hawks	Saif Ali Zaib
	15	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Inzamam-ul-Haq
	16	Mirpur Royals	Shan Khan
	17	Jammu Janbaz	Faisal Altaf
	18	Overseas Warriors	Syed Hashim Ali
	19	Rawalakot Hawks	Atif Sheikh
	20	Kotli Lions	Naveed Malik
	21	Bagh Stallions	Aamir Shehzad
	22	Jammu Janbaz	Najam Naseer Kiyani
	23	Mirpur Royals	Umar Hayat
	24	Bagh Stallions	Arsalan Arif
	25	Rawalakot Hawks	Raja Farhan Khan
	26	Overseas Warriors	Saad Asif
	27	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Usman Maroof
	28	Kotli Lions	Mujtaba Ghayas
	29	Mirpur Royals	Faizan Saleem
	30	Kotli Lions	Nadeem Khalil
	31	Bagh Stallions	Raja Farhan
	32	Overseas Warriors	Malik Nisar
	33	Rawalakot Hawks	Kashif Ali
	34	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Usama Fazal
	35	Jammu Janbaz	Muhammad Shehzad

^[18]^[19]

Supplementary draft

A supplementary draft was also held. Each team was allowed to select two supplementary players. The following are the picks:

Team	Player
Bagh Stallions	Ali Majid Abdul Bangalzai
Jammu Janbaz	Azaz Khan Akash Afridi
Kotli Lions	Abdul Rehman
Mirpur Royals	Yasir Shah Raza-ul-Mustafa
Muzaffarabad Tigers	Ahmed Daniyal Ameer Hamza
Overseas Warriors	Muhammad Sameer Shayan Raza
Rawalakot Hawks	Sohail Akhtar Sameen Gul

Draft summary

Category	Bagh Stallions	Jammu Janbaz	Kotli Lions	Mirpur Royals	Muzaffarabad Tigers	Overseas Warriors	Rawalakot Hawks
Icon	Kamran Akmal	Sharjeel Khan	Khurram Manzoor	Shoaib Malik	Mohammad Hafeez	Asad Shafiq	Mohammad Amir
Platinum	Rumman Raees Sohaib Maqsood	Faheem Ashraf Shahid Afridi	Danish Aziz Sarfaraz Ahmed	Haris Sohail Imad Wasim	Iftikhar Ahmed Sohail Tanvir	Azam Khan Kamran Ghulam	Ahmed Shehzad Hussain Talat
Diamond	Aamer Yamin Umar Amin	Sahibzada Farhan Umar Akmal	Ahsan Ali Khurram Shehzad	Ali Imran Salman Irshad	Anwar Ali Haseebullah Khan	Mohammad Imran Sohail Khan	Zaman Khan Asif Afridi
Gold	Mohammad Imran Kashif Bhatti	Akif Javed Usama Mir	Irfanullah Shah Khalid Usman	Muhammad Akhlaq Abrar Ahmed	Arshad Iqbal Zeeshan Ashraf	Saif Badar Umaid Asif	Amad Butt Bismillah Khan
Silver	Ahmed Jamal Atizaz Habib Khan Mohammad Sarwar Sharoon Siraj	Ahmed Khan Imran Khan Shahzab Umar Siddiq	Hanif Azad Hassan Khan Hasan Mohsin Mushtaq Kalhoro	Hamza Arshad Kashif Ali Zaid Alam Zubair Lodhi	Ahmed Safi Abdullah Mir Hamza Salman Fayyaz Taimoor Sultan	Adil Amin Ali Shafiq Bilal Asif Muhammad Shehzad	Ammad Alam Faisal Akram Musadiq Ahmed Zeeshan Malik
Emerging	Maaz Khan Sajjad Ali	Hamza Shah Afridi Samiullah	Imran Shah Irfan Ali Qasmi	Ali Razzaq Hassan Nawaz	Aaqib Liaquat Amir Khan	Khawaja Muhammad Umer Zeeshan	Saeedullah Ihsanullah
Kashmiri	Amir Shehzad Arsalan Arif Danyal Allah Ditta Hasan Raza Raja Farhan	Faisal Altaf Mehran Mumtaz Mohammad Shehzad Naqash Basharat Najam Naseer Kiyani	Basit Ali Mujtaba Ghayas Nadeem Khalil Naveed Malik Zayyan Khan	Faizan Saleem Shadab Majeed Shan Khan Sufyan Moqeem Umar Hayat	Aqib Ilyas Inzamam-ul-Haq Osama Fazil Saad Bin Zafar Usman Maroof	Farhan Shafiq Hanan Ahmed Hashim Ali Malik Nisar Saad Asif	Atif Sheikh Kashif Ali Raja Farhan Khan Saif Zaib Zain-ul-Hassan
Supplementary	Ali Majid Abdul Bangalzai	Azaz Khan Akash Afridi	Abdul Rehman	Yasir Shah Raza-ul-Mustafa	Ahmed Daniyal Ameer Hamza	Muhammad Sameer Shayan Raza	Sohail Akhtar Sameen Gul

Post-draft signings

Player	Team
Omair Yousuf	Kotli Lions
Mirwais Khan	Kotli Lions
Arsalan Mehzood	Mirpur Royals
Izhar-ul-Haq	Mirpur Royals
Nosherwan Ibrahim	Overseas Warriors

Replacements

Player	Team	Replaced with
Ahmed Jamal	Bagh Stallions	Aamer Jamal
Raja Farhan Khan	Bagh Stallions	Awais Akram
Atif Sheikh	Rawalakot Hawks	Babar Khaliq
Kashif Ali		Khawaja Muhammad Bilal
Saif Zaib		Rohaan Qadri
Zain-ul-Hassan		Rohail Nazir

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