The player draft for the 2024 Pakistan Super League was held on 13 December 2023 at the National Cricket Academy, Lahore. Before the draft, teams were allowed to retain a maximum of eight players from the previous season and make transfers.
Background The Pakistan Cricket Board announced that Quetta Gladiators will have the first pick in the draft. A total of 485 foreign players registered for the tournament.
Each team had the right to exercise one wildcard pick. Each team had a right-to-match card which allowed franchises to buy back a maximum of one player they have released by paying a set fee in each category.
Transfers Hasan Ali and Islamabad's first round silver pick were traded from Islamabad United to Karachi Kings in return for Imad Wasim and Karachi's second round silver pick. Iftikhar Ahmed and Quetta's first round platinum pick were traded from Quetta Gladiators to Multan Sultans in exchange for Rilee Rossouw and Multan's first round silver pick. Naseem Shah and Quetta's third round platinum pick were traded from Quetta Gladiators to Islamabad United in exchange for Mohammad Wasim, Abrar Ahmed and Islamabad's first round platinum pick. Shan Masood and Multan's fourth round silver pick were traded from Multan Sultans to Karachi Kings in exchange for Faisal Akram and Karachi's first round silver pick. Karachi and Multan also swapped their first round diamond picks.
Retained players On 7 December 2023, the retained player's 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 Multan Sultans.
ClassIslamabad UnitedKarachi KingsLahore QalandarsMultan SultansPeshawar ZalmiQuetta Gladiators Platinum Shadab Khan Naseem Shah Shaheen Afridi Mohammad Rizwan Iftikhar Ahmed Babar Azam Rovman Powell Rilee Rossouw Diamond Azam Khan Imad Wasim (mentor) James Vince Hasan Ali Haris Rauf David Wiese Khushdil Shah Usama Mir Saim Ayub Tom Kohler-Cadmore Mohammad Wasim Jr. Jason Roy Wanindu Hasaranga Gold Faheem Ashraf Alex Hales Colin Munro Shan Masood Shoaib Malik (mentor) Tabraiz Shamsi Sikandar Raza Abdullah Shafique Zaman Khan Abbas Afridi Mohammad Haris Aamer Jamal Mohammad Hasnain Abrar Ahmed Sarfaraz Ahmed Silver Rumman Raees Mir Hamza Muhammad Akhlaq Mirza Tahir Baig Rashid Khan Ihsanullah Khurram Shahzad Will Smeed Emerging Irfan Khan Faisal Akram Haseebullah Khan
Draft picks The draft took place at the National Cricket Academy on 13 December 2023.
ClassIslamabad UnitedKarachi KingsLahore QalandarsMultan SultansPeshawar ZalmiQuetta Gladiators Platinum Jordan Cox Kieron Pollard Daniel Sams Mohammad Nawaz Fakhar Zaman Rassie van der Dussen David Willey Noor Ahmad Sherfane Rutherford Mohammad Amir Diamond Tymal Mills Tim Seifert Sahibzada Farhan Dawid Malan Asif Ali Gold Reeza Hendricks Reece Topley Naveen-ul-Haq Silver Matthew Forde Salman Ali Agha Qasim Akram Shahab Khan Mohammad Amir Khan Anwar Ali Arafat Minhas Mohammad Imran Dan Lawrence Ahsan Hafeez Tayyab Tahir Shahnawaz Dahani Mohammad Ali Usman Khan Salman Irshad Arif Yaqoob Umair Afridi Daniel Mousley Saud Shakeel Sajjad Ali Usman Qadir Omair Yousuf Emerging Hunain Shah Ubaid Shah Sirajuddin Jahandad Khan Syed Faridoun Yasir Khan Mohammad Zeeshan Adil Naz Khawaja Nafay Supplementary Shamyl Hussain Tom Curran Saad Baig Jamie Overton Shai Hope Kamran Ghulam Chris Jordan Aftab Ibrahim Lungi Ngidi Mehran Mumtaz Akeal Hosein Sohail Khan
Replacements A supplementary and replacement player draft took place through a conference call on 29 January 2024, in which franchises were allowed to select two additional supplementary players and replacement players for any partially or fully unavailable players. Quetta reserved their pick in the fourth supplementary round. A second replacement draft was held on 16 February 2024.
Class IU KK LQ MS PZ QG Supplementary Obed McCoy Haider Ali Leus du Plooy Mohammad Rohid Bhanuka Rajapaksa Tayyab Abbas Johnson Charles Mohammad Shehzad Luke Wood Sufiyan Muqeem Laurie Evans Usman Tariq
Player Team Replaced with Unavailability Reason Lungi Ngidi PZ Waqar SalamkheilFullNOC issues Khurram Shahzad Arshad IqbalPartialInjury Noor Ahmad Gus AtkinsonFull National duty Naveen-ul-Haq Aimal Khan Partial Dan Lawrence LQ Lorcan Tucker Rashid Khan George LindeFullInjury Tom Curran IU Muhammad Waseem Kieron PollardKK Zahid MahmoodPartial Tim Seifert Fawad AliNational duty Wanindu Hasaranga QG Bismillah Khan Umar Amin Gus Atkinson PZ Shamar Joseph Jamie Overton KK Blessing Muzarabani Full NOC issues Bhanuka Rajapaksa LQ Salman Fayyaz Partial National duty Reece Topley MS Olly Stone Injury Sufiyan Muqeem PZ Paul Walter Full Shai Hope LQ Carlos Brathwaite Partial Muhammad Waseem IU Martin Guptill Full National duty Ihsanullah MS Ali Majid Injury Saad Baig KK Zahid Mahmood Waqar Salamkheil PZ Hussain Talat Olly Stone MS Richard Ngarava Injury Tabraiz Shamsi KK Imran Tahir Domestic duty Rassie van der Dussen LQ Sam Billings
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