The player draft for the 2023 Pakistan Super League was held on 15 December 2022. Before the draft teams were allowed to retain a maximum of eight players and make transfers.
Background Ramiz Raja had hinted that the draft would be replaced by an auction, but the format was retained. The PCB announced that Lahore Qalandars will have the first pick.
Each team had the right to exercise one wildcard pick. Each team had a right-to-match card which allowed franchises to buy back one player they had released by paying a set fee in each category: Platinum ($130,000-$170,000) Diamond ($60,000-$80,000) Gold ($40,000-$50,000) Silver ($25,000) Emerging ($7,500)
Transfers Babar Azam and a supplementary round pick were traded from Karachi Kings to Peshawar Zalmi in return for Shoaib Malik and Haider Ali.
Retained players On 11 November 2022, the retained players' list was announced. 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 Peshawar Zalmi.
ClassIslamabad UnitedKarachi KingsLahore QalandarsMultan SultansPeshawar ZalmiQuetta GladiatorsPlatinum Shadab Khan Haider Ali Shaheen Afridi Rashid Khan Mohammad Rizwan Babar Azam Mohammad NawazDiamond Asif Ali Mohammad Wasim Imad Wasim Mohammad Amir Shoaib Malik Haris Rauf David Wiese Khushdil Shah Shan Masood Rilee Rossouw Wahab Riaz Sherfane Rutherford Iftikhar Ahmed Jason RoyGold Azam Khan Faheem Ashraf Hasan Ali Abdullah Shafique Shahnawaz Dahani Tim David Mohammad Haris Mohammad Hasnain Sarfaraz Ahmed Silver Colin Munro (mentor) Paul Stirling Aamer Yamin Mir Hamza Sharjeel Khan Kamran Ghulam Harry Brook Aamer Jamal Salman Irshad Tom Kohler-Cadmore Umar Akmal (mentor) Naveen-ul-Haq Will SmeedEmerging Qasim Akram Zaman Khan Abbas Afridi Ihsanullah
Draft picks More than 493 foreign players were registered for the draft. For the emerging category, players should be under 23 years of age as of 1 January 2023 and could have either played less than 10 PSL matches in previous seasons or not have been selected in the national squad. ClassIslamabad UnitedKarachi KingsLahore QalandarsMultan SultansPeshawar ZalmiQuetta GladiatorsPlatinum Alex Hales Rahmanullah Gurbaz Matthew Wade Imran Tahir Fakhar Zaman David Miller Josh Little Bhanuka Rajapaksa Rovman Powell Wanindu Hasaranga Naseem ShahDiamond Fazalhaq Farooqi James Vince James Fuller Hussain Talat Mujeeb Ur Rahman Odean SmithGold Andrew Tye Sikandar Raza Liam Dawson Akeal Hosein Danish Aziz Arshad Iqbal Ahsan AliSilver Abrar Ahmed Sohaib Maqsood Rumman Raees Tayyab Tahir Muhammad Akhlaq Dilbar Hussain Mirza Tahir Baig Ahmed Daniyal Usama Mir Usman Khan Sameen Gul Anwar Ali Mohammad Sarwar Saim Ayub Usman Qadir Umaid Asif Muhammad ZahidEmerging Zeeshan Zameer Hassan Nawaz Irfan Khan Shawaiz Irfan Sufiyan Muqeem Haseebullah Khan Abdul Bangalzai Aimal Khan Supplementary Moeen Ali Mubasir Khan Tabraiz Shamsi Mohammad Umar Jordan Cox Jalat Khan Adil Rashid Arafat Minhas James Neesham Khurram Shahzad Martin Guptill Omair Yousuf
Replacements A replacement player draft took place through a conference call on 24 January 2023, in which franchises were also allowed to select two supplementary players. Peshawar had reserved their pick in the first supplementary round and named Khurram Shahzad as their pick. Lahore and Peshawar reserved their picks in the second supplementary round. Islamabad, Multan, Peshawar and Quetta reserved picks in the replacement draft. Further replacements were announced on 7 February 2023.
Class IU KK LQ MS PZ QG Supplementary Tom Curran Zafar Gohar Ben Cutting Muhammad Musa Ahsan Hafeez Kieron Pollard Amad Butt Haris Sohail Shakib Al Hasan Saud Shakeel Yasir Khan
Player Team Replaced with Availability Reason Rashid Khan LQ Sam BillingsPartialNational duty Rovman Powell PZ Richard Gleeson Rahmanullah GurbazIU Gus Atkinson Alex Hales Tymal Mills Mujeeb Ur Rahman PZ Peter Hatzoglou Naveen-ul-Haq QG Nuwan Thushara Jordan CoxLQ Kusal Mendis Harry Brook Shane DadswellFull Adil RashidMS Wayne Parnell David Miller Izharulhaq NaveedJohnson CharlesPartial Odean SmithQG Dwaine Pretorius Jason Roy Najibullah Zadran Tabraiz Shamsi KK Faisal Akram Moeen Ali IU Rassie van der Dussen James Vince KK Adam Rossington Kusal Mendis LQ Shai HopeFullNOC issue Ahsan Ali QG Mohammad HafeezInjury Shahnawaz DahaniMS Mohammad Ilyas Wayne Parnell Carlos Brathwaite Sherfane RutherfordPZ Dasun Shanaka Mir HamzaKK Akif Javed Shakib Al Hasan PZ Azmatullah OmarzaiPartialFamily emergency Wanindu Hasaranga QG Qais AhmadFullNOC issue Sarfaraz Ahmed Bismillah KhanPartialInjury Josh LittleMS Sheldon CottrellFull
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