PSL player draft on 20th

LAHORE: All six Pakistan Super League (PSL) teams were asked to retain up to ten players from their previous roster.

The category restrictions for retentions are the same as they were for a 16-member squad i.e. a maximum of three Platinum, three Diamond, three Gold, five Silver and two emerging could be retained.

The teams will go into the player draft on November 20 in Islamabad to complete the rest of their squads from a pool of over 600 players.

Islamabad United: Retained (10 players): Shadab Khan (Platinum), Luke Ronchi (Platinum), Faheem Ashraf (Platinum), Mohammad Sami (Diamond), Asif Ali (Diamond), Rumman Raees (Gold), Hussain Talat (Silver, Ambassador), Sahibzada Farhan (Silver), Zafar Gohar (Silver), Waqas Maqsood (Silver).

Released: Andre Russell, Misbah-ul-Haq, Samuel Badree, Iftikhar Ahmed, Amad Butt, JP Duminy, Sam Billings, Alex Hales, David Willey, Mohammad Hasan, Mohammad Hasnain.Traded: None.Relegation: Rumman Raees (from Diamond to Gold).

Karachi Kings: Retained (8 players): Mohammad Amir (Platinum), Baber Azam (Platinum), Colin Munro (Platinum), Usman Khan (Diamond), Colin Ingram (Diamond, Ambassador), Imad Wasim (Diamond), Mohammad Rizwan (Gold), Ravi Bopara (Gold).

Released: Shahid Afridi, Usama Mir, Khurram Manzoor, Mitchell Johnson, Luke Wright, David Wiese, Tabish Khan, Mohammad Irfan Jnr, Hasan Mohsin, Eoin Morgan, Saifullah Bangash.

Traded: None.

Lahore Qalandars: Retained (8 players): Fakhar Zaman (Platinum), Yasir Shah (Diamond), Anton Devcich (Gold), Rahat Ali (Gold), Shaheen Afridi (Gold), Hassan Khan (Silver), Agha Salman (Silver), Sohail Akhtar (Silver).

Released: Brendon McCullum, Cameron Delport, Aamer Yamin, Bilawal Bhatti, Sohail Akhtar, Ghulam Mudassar. Angelo Mathews, Mitchell McCl-enaghan, Gulraiz Sadaf.

Traded: Umar Akmal and Sunil Narine (to Quetta Gladiators) to get spinner Hassan Khan and fast bowler Rahat Ali. Also, will have their Platinum pick in the first round. Lahore and Quetta also swapped their second round of silver category.

Quetta Gladiators: Retained (9 players): Sarfraz Ahmed (Platinum), Sunil Narine (Platinum), Shane Watson (Diamond, Mentor), Sohail Tanvir (Diamond), Mohammad Nawaz (Diamond), Rilee Rossouw (Gold, Ambassador), Umar Akmal (Gold), Anwar Ali (Silver), Saud Shakil (Silver).

Released: Mahmudullah, Umar Amin, Mir Hamza, Asad Shafiq, Brathwaite, Rameez Raja jnr, Saad Ali, Rashid Khan, Azam Khan, Kevin Pietersen, Chris Green, Kohler Cadmore, Ben Laughlin, Jason Roy, John Hastings, Carlos Brathwaite, Faraz Ahmad Khan.

Traded: Bought Umar Akmal and Sunil Narine from Lahore Qalandars in exchange of Hassan Khan and Rahat Ali. Quetta also gave up their Platinum pick in the first round to Qalandars. The second round of silver category has also been swapped between both franchises.

Relegation: Anwar Ali (from Gold to Silver).

Peshawar Zalmi: Retained (8 players): Wahab Riaz (Platinum), Hasan Ali (Platinum), Darren Sammy (Diamond), Kamran Akmal (Diamond, Ambassador), Liam Dawson (Gold), Umaid Asif (Silver), Khalid Usman (Silver), Sameen Gul (Emerging).

Released: Shakib Al Hasan, Kamran Akmal, Haris Sohail, Chris Jordan, Mohammad Asghar, Dwayne Bravo, Tamim Iqbal, Hammad Azam, Saad Nasim, Taimoor Sultan, Ibtisam

Sheikh, Andre Fletcher, Evin Lewis, Mohammad Arif

Relegation: Kamran Akmal (from Platinum to Diamond, but made Ambassador in compensation).

Sixth team (previously Multan Sultan): Retained (8 players): Shoaib Malik (Platinum), Junaid Khan (Diamond), Mohammad Irfan (Diamond, Ambassador), Shan Masood (Gold), Mohammad Abbas (Silver), Mohammad Irfan Khan (Silver), Umar Siddiq (Silver), Mohammad Junaid (Emerging).

Released: Kieron Pollard, Kumar Sangakkara, Sohaib Maqsood, Kashif Bhatti, Mohammad Abbas, Nicholas Pooran, Abdullah Shafiq, Saif Badar, Hardus Viljoen, Umar Gul, Ross Whiteley.

Traded: Sold Sohail Tanvir to

Quetta Gladiators for Diamond-round pick.