2025 Pakistan Super League players draft

General information
Sport	Cricket
Date(s)	13 January 2025
Location	Hazuri Bagh, Lahore, Pakistan
Overview
League	Pakistan Super League
Teams	6
First selection	Daryl Mitchell, Lahore Qalandars

The player draft for the tenth edition of the Pakistan Super League took place on 13 January 2025.[1][2]

On 4 January 2025, the Pakistan Cricket Board opened the registration window for foreign players and the trade window.[3]

Retained players

On 04 January 2025, the retained player's list was announced.[4] The franchises were allowed to retain a maximum of eight players from the previous season. All the franchises fully utilized their quota of player retentions apart from Karachi Kings, Multan Sultans and Peshawar Zalmi.

Class	Islamabad United	Karachi Kings	Lahore Qalandars	Multan Sultans	Peshawar Zalmi	Quetta Gladiators
Platinum	Shadab Khan Naseem Shah		Shaheen Afridi Fakhar Zaman	Mohammad Rizwan Usama Mir	Babar Azam Saim Ayub
Diamond	Imad Wasim (mentor) Azam Khan	Hasan Ali James Vince	Haris Rauf Sikandar Raza	David Willey (mentor) Iftikhar Ahmed Usman Khan	Mohammad Haris	Mohammad Amir (mentor) Abrar Ahmed Rilee Rossouw
Gold	Haider Ali Salman Ali Agha	Shan Masood Irfan Khan	Abdullah Shafique Zaman Khan Jahandad Khan	Chris Jordan		Saud Shakeel Mohammad Wasim Jr. Akeal Hosein
Silver	Colin Munro Rumman Raees	Arafat Minhas Tim Seifert Zahid Mahmood	David Wiese	Faisal Akram	Sufiyan Muqeem Arif Yaqoob Mehran Mumtaz	Khawaja Nafay Usman Tariq
Emerging					Ali Raza

Draft picks

The draft took place at Hazuri Bagh on 13 January 2025.[5]

Class	Islamabad United	Karachi Kings	Lahore Qalandars	Multan Sultans	Peshawar Zalmi	Quetta Gladiators
Platinum	Matthew Short	David Warner Adam Milne Abbas Afridi[a]	Daryl Mitchell	Michael Bracewell	Tom Kohler-Cadmore[b]	Mark Chapman Faheem Ashraf[a] Finn Allen
Diamond	Jason Holder	Khushdil Shah	Kusal Perera		Corbin Bosch Mohammad Ali
Gold	Ben Dwarshuis	Aamir Jamal		Mohammad Hasnain Kamran Ghulam	Abdul Samad[a] Nahid Rana Hussain Talat
Silver	Salman Irshad Mohammad Nawaz Andries Gous	Mir Hamza Litton Das	Asif Afridi Asif Ali Rishad Hossain Muhammad Akhlaq	Akif Javed Tayyab Tahir[b] Gudakesh Motie Josh Little	Max Bryant Najibullah Zadran	Khurram Shehzad Haseebullah Khan Kyle Jamieson
Emerging	Saad Masood Hunain Shah	Riazullah Fawad Ali	Momin Qamar Mohammad Azab	Shahid Aziz Ubaid Shah	Maaz Sadaqat	Hassan Nawaz Mohammad Zeeshan
Supplementary	Riley Meredith Rassie van der Dussen	Kane Williamson Mohammad Nabi Omair Yousuf Mirza Mamoon	Tom Curran Sam Billings Salman Mirza Muhammad Naeem	Johnson Charles Shai Hope Yasir Khan Muhammad Amir Barki	Alzarri Joseph Ahmed Daniyal	Kusal Mendis Sean Abbott Shoaib Malik Danish Aziz

1. Wild Card: The player's category was changed through their franchise's Wild Card.
2. Right To Match card (RTM): Player was picked by another franchise in the draft but their franchise from the previous season used their Right To Match card to bring them back in their squad.

References

1. "PSL draft to take place on January 11". ESPNcricinfo. 10 December 2024.
2. Yaqoob, Mohammad (11 December 2024). "PSL players draft set for Jan 11 with IPL rejects on radar". DAWN.
3. "PSL windows for foreign players' registration opened". DAWN. 13 December 2024.
4. "Players retention for HBL PSL 2025 announced". PSL T20. 4 January 2025.
5. "Teams complete squads as PSL 10 Player Draft concludes". ESPNcricinfo. 13 December 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2025.

External link

• Live stream on YouTube