Babar Azam, the most successful batter in Pakistan Super League history and the star of the Karachi Kings for the previous six seasons, will join Peshawar Zalmi for PSL 8 while Haider Ali and Shoaib Malik will join the Karachi Kings.
Before the PSL Player Draft, when the squad side can be increased to 18 players (three in each of the Platinum, Diamond, and Gold categories, five in Silver, two in Emerging, and up to two in Supplementary), a side can assemble up to eight players during the trade and retention window.
Only Babar Azam included in the?Peshawar Zalmi’s?Platinum category; he previously played for Islamabad United before joining Karachi Kings. Mohammad Haris, whose brave batting has lightened up the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, is in Gold, while Wahab Riaz and Sherfane Rutherford are in Diamond. Peshawar Zalmi has retained?seven players in the window.
Shoaib Malik?joins Imad Wasim and Mohammad Amir in the Diamond category, while Haider is the lone player from Karachi in the Platinum tier. They kept Qasim Akram in the Emerging group and Sharjeel Khan, Mir Hamza, and Aamir Yamin in the Silver category.
Lahore Qalandars,?the reigning champions, have kept their captain Shaheen Afridi and Rashid Khan in the Platinum category. David Wiese, an all-arounder, remains in the Diamond category. Lahore has kept seven players, but they will reveal their eighth retainer?later.
Multan Sultans, the middle-order batters Khushdil Shah and Rilee Rossouw in the Diamond category, and Tim David in the Gold category, have been retained by the 2021 PSL?edition’s finalist. Their only Platinum-level retainer is Mohammad Rizwan, their captain and the player of the HBL PSL 2021, who has scored the most runs in T20 Internationals since the year 2021 began. Shahnawaz Dahani, a fast bowler for Multan Sultans, was chosen as the?team’s brand ambassador. He joins David in the Gold category.
Islamabad United, the?champions from the first and third editions in 2016 and 2018 have kept their captain Shadab Khan in the Platinum category. Asif Ali was chosen as the brand ambassador, and Mohammad Wasim Jr. was retained in the Diamond. While,?Azam Khan, Faheem Ashraf, and Hasan Ali will stay in the Gold category.
Mohammad Nawaz, who has been a player of the Quetta Gladiators since the first edition, has been kept on as Platinum. Iftikhar Ahmed and Jason Roy are kept in the Diamond tier. Their captain Sarfaraz Ahmed and brand ambassador Mohammad Hasnain are in the Gold category.
The Right to Match Card will permit each of the six teams, like it did last year, to select any player who is remove