2016 Pakistan Super League players draft


The Player Draft for the inaugural season of the Pakistan Super League was held at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on 21-22 December 2015. A total of 308 players and 30 coaches, including Pakistani and Foreigners were divided into 5 different categories Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver and Emerging. Each franchise had a salary-spending cap of $1.2 million, including the signing of players, coaches and support staff. There were five icon players and each team was allowed to pick one icon and six foreigners in a 20-man squad.

Players per country

CountryNumber of PlayersCountryNumber of PlayersCountryNumber of Players
PAK137ENG59WIN38
SRI22AUS10BAN10
SA7ZIM6NZ5
IRL4AFG3CAN2
SCO2USA2UAE1

Players picked

Following is the list of players picked by different teams.
Shahid Afridi was the first player to be picked in draft. Shane Watson was the first foreign player to be picked in draft.

Icon

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  1. Shahid Afridi
  2. Shoaib Malik
  3. Shane Watson
  4. Chris Gayle
  5. Kevin Pietersen

    Platinum

;
  1. Sohail Tanvir
  2. Umar Akmal
  3. Misbah-ul-Haq
  4. Wahab Riaz
  5. Ahmed Shehzad
  6. Sarfraz Ahmed
  7. Dwayne Bravo
  8. Darren Sammy
  9. Andre Russell
  10. Shakib Al Hasan

    Diamond

;
  1. Mohammad Hafeez
  2. Anwar Ali
  3. Kamran Akmal
  4. Mohammad Irfan
  5. Sohaib Maqsood
  6. Muhammad Rizwan
  7. Immad Wasim
  8. Lendl Simmons
  9. Samuel Badree
  10. Ravi Bopara
  11. Luke Wright
  12. Brad Haddin

    Gold

;
  1. Khalid Latif
  2. Bilawal Bhatti
  3. Junaid Khan
  4. Mohammad Sami
  5. Umar Gul
  6. Sharjeel Khan
  7. Zulfiqar Babar
  8. Mohammad Amir
  9. James Vince
  10. Cameron Delport
  11. Jim Allenby
  12. Elton Chigumbura
  13. Kevon Cooper
  14. Tamim Iqbal

    Silver

;
  1. Azhar Ali
  2. Asad Shafiq
  3. Sohail Khan
  4. Abdur Rehman
  5. Usama Mir
  6. Shahid Yousuf
  7. Umar Amin
  8. Saad Nasim
  9. Zohaib Khan
  10. Imran Khan Jr.
  11. Kamran Ghulam
  12. Mohammad Nawaz
  13. Zia ul Haq
  14. Hammad Azam
  15. Nauman Anwar
  16. Imran Khalid
  17. Zafar Gohar
  18. Bilal Asif
  19. Aamir Yamin
  20. Iftikhar Ahmed
  21. Babar Azam
  22. Mushfiqur Rahim
  23. Dawid Malan
  24. Sam Billings
  25. Mohammad Nabi

    Emerging

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  1. Adnan Rasool
  2. Bismillah Khan
  3. Hasan Ali
  4. Saifullah Bangash
  5. Amad Butt
  6. Naved Yasin
  7. Akbar-ur-Rehman
  8. Musadiq Ahmad
  9. Dawood Bashir
  10. Ruman Raees

    Supplementary

Supplementary players are those who picked by their team as extra players and their contracts will start only after they join their teams.
PlayersPre-Draft CategoryPlayersPre-Draft CategoryPlayersPre-Draft Category
Rameez Raja Jr.Emerging Aizaz CheemaSilverSaeed AjmalDiamond
Taj WaliEmerging Shahzaib HasanGold Ehsan AdilGold
IsrarullahEmerging Fawad AlamGold Brad HodgeDiamond
Mukhtar AhmedSilver Ashar ZaidiSilver TM DilshanPlatinum
Abdul RazzaqSilver Kumar SangakkaraPlatinum

Post draft signings

PlayersPre-Draft CategoryPlayersPre-Draft Category
Ajantha MendisDiamond Dwayne SmithPlatinum
Shaun TaitDiamond Riki WesselsSilver
Grant ElliottDiamond Azhar MahmoodDiamond
Owais ShahGold Nathan McCullum
Ryan ten Doeschate Jonny Bairstow

Management and staff

This is the list of coaches and other supportive staff hired by 5 franchises.
;Islamabad United
;Peshawar Zalmi
;Karachi Kings
;Quetta Gladiators
;Lahore Qalandars