The highly anticipated eighth season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in 2023 will include a number of international cricket stars, including Australia’s standout player and T20I captain Aaron Finch, who has registered for the Player Draft.
Finch has played in 367 T20 matches and amassed approximately 11,000 runs at a strike rate of 139.31.
Players who have registered for the draught include Reece Topley, Tom Curran, and Adil Rashid of England, Wayne Parnell, Lungi Ngidi, and Rassie Van Der Dussen of South Africa, Dasun Shanaka, and Wanindu Hasaranga of Sri Lanka, Nicholas Pooran, Evin Lewis, and Jimmy Neesham of the West Indies, and Jimmy Neesham of New Zealand.
The PCB has already approved the selection of the following players for the draught: England’s Alex Hales, Dawid Malan, and Jason Roy; New Zealand’s Martin Guptill; South Africa’s Rilee Rossouw and David Miller; Afghanistan’s Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Mujeeb-ur-Rahman; Bangladesh’s Shakib-al-Hasan; Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza; and the Netherlands’ Colin Ackermann.
The selection will probably occur in the third week of November 2022, it should be noted.
The pick order for the selection has already been made public by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), with the defending champion Lahore Qalandars having the first choice.
Multan Sultans and Quetta Gladiators will be selected second and third, respectively. Karachi Kings and Islamabad United will make the fourth and fifth selections, respectively. Peshawar Zalmi will choose sixth, in the meantime.
The next 17 rounds were decided through a special statistical tool. For the upcoming league season, the PCB has also finished renewing the local player category.
Before deciding on player retention, the teams will now submit relegation requests. All teams are given the chance to meet the player’s base category when relegation requests are submitted. The PCB stated in a news statement that if the player’s basic category is not matched, the player “may be demoted to a category below his base category.”
The next event will take place from 9 February to 19 March 2023 at four locations: Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Multan.
