PCB renewed the categories of 87 local players across five categories. Notable names include test cricketers Hassan Ali, Saim Ayub, and Mohammad Amir along with them Usama Mir earned the promotion from the Diamond to the Platinum category before the upcoming PSL draft for the 2025 season. The draft will be held on 11 January 2025 time and the venue is yet to be announced.
Category renewals were announced by PCB via press release on Tuesday. Earlier this month PCB opened registration and transfer window for PSL draft 2025. Six franchises will unveil the final relegation and retention list of players at the end of the month.
Four players have been added, and nine have been retained, for a total of 13 players in the platinum category. This is the top-tier category in the PSL draft. The Diamond category, which is the second most valuable tier, consists of 16 players. A similar number of players will be in the silver category. The number of players in the gold and emerging categories is 30 and 12, respectively, for the PSL draft 2025.
Below is the distribution of players team-wise per category.
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Platinum Category
Islamabad United: Sdadab Khan, Naseem Shah and Imad Wasim.
Karachi Kings: Hassan Ali
Lahore Qalandars: Fakhar Zaman, Shaheen Afridi, and Haris Rauf
Multan Sultans: Mohmmad Rizwan, Iftikhar Ahmed and Usama Mir
Peshawar Zalmi: Babar Azam and Saim Ayub
Quetta Gladiators: Mohammad Amir
Diamond Category
Islamabad United: Azam Khan and Salman Ali Aga
Karachi Kings: Mohammad Nawaz, Shan Masood, and Shoaib Malik
Lahore Qalandars: Abdullah Shafique
Multan Sultans: Kushdil Shah, Abbas Afridi, Mohmmad Ali and Usman Khan
Peshawar Zalmi: Mohammad Harris and Aamer Jamal
Quetta Gladiators: Sarfraz Ahmed, Mohammad Hussnain, Abrar Ahmed and Saud Shakeel
Gold Category
Islamabad United: Faheem Ashraf, Ruman Raees, Haider Ali and Qasim Akram
Karachi Kings: Arfat Minhas, Anwar Ali, Mir Hamza and Irfan Khan Niazi
Lahore Qalandars: Sahibzada Farhan, Zaman Khan, Mirza Tahir Baig and Kamran Ghulam and Jahandad Khan
Multan Sultans: Ihsanullah, Tayab Tahir, Shahnawaz Dahni and Faisal Akram
Peshawar Zalmi: Asif Ali, Salman Irshad, Hussain Talat, Arshad Iqbal, Sufyan Muqeem, Khurram Shezad and Haseebullah Khan
Quetta Gladiators : Muhammad Wasim Jr, Usman Qadir, Omair Bin Yousuf, Sohail Khan and Umar Amin
Silver Category
Islamabad United: Sahab Khan
Karachi Kings: Mohammad Akhlaq and Mohammad Amir Khan
Lahore Qalandars: Muhammad Imran Jr, Ahsan Hafeez Bhatti, Salman Fayaz, and Syed Faridoun Mahmood
Multan Sultans: Ali Majid and Yasir Khan
Peshawar Zalmi: Umair Afridi, Arif Yaqoob, and Mehran Mumtaz
Quetta Gladiators : Sajjad Ali Jr, Usman Tariq, Bismillah Khan and Khawaja Muhammad Nafay
Emerging Category
Islamabad United: Hunain Shah, Ubaid Shah, and Shymyl Hussain
Karachi Kings: Sirajuddin and Saad Baig
Lahore Qalandars: Tayyab Abbas
Multan Sultans: Aftab Ibrahim and Muhammad Shazad
Peshawar Zalmi: Muhammad Zeeshan, Aimal Khan, and Ali Raza
Quetta Gladiators : Adil Naz
Pakistan Super League will be held in April and May next year along with the Indian Premier League. PSL moved from its traditional February-March window due to the champions’ trophy scheduled in February. This also affected the date of the PSL draft in the second week of January.
