The player draft for the inaugural season of the Pakistan Super League was held at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on 21–22 December 2015. A total of 308 players and 30 coaches, including Pakistanis and foreigners were divided into 5 different categories: Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver and Emerging.PSL details Each franchise had a salary-spending cap of $1.2 million, including the signing of players, coaches and support staff. There were five icon players and each team was allowed to pick one icon and six foreigners in a 20-man squad (16 active and 4 supplementary).
Players picked Following is the list of players picked by different teams.
Shahid Afridi was the first player to be picked in the draft. Shane Watson was the first foreign player to be picked in the draft. Players were paid according to their categories:
Icon - $200,000, Platinum - $140,000, Diamond - $70,000, Gold - $50,000, Silver - $25,000, Emerging - $10,000 CategoryIslamabad UnitedKarachi KingsLahore QalandarsPeshawar ZalmiQuetta GladiatorsIcon Shane Watson Shoaib Malik Chris Gayle Shahid Afridi Kevin PietersenPlatinum Misbah Ul Haq Andre Russell Sohail Tanvir Shakib Al Hasan Umar Akmal Dwayne Bravo Wahab Riaz Darren Sammy Sarfaraz Ahmed Ahmed ShehzadDiamond Mohammad Irfan Samuel Badree Brad Haddin Imad Wasim Lendl Simmons Ravi Bopara Sohaib Maqsood Muhammad Rizwan Yasir Shah Mohammad Hafeez Kamran Akmal Chris Jordan Anwar Ali Luke Wright Jason HolderGold Khalid Latif Mohammad Sami Sharjeel Khan Bilawal Bhatti Mohammad Amir James Vince Cameron Delport Kevon Cooper Mustafizur Rahman Junaid Khan Jim Allenby Tamim Iqbal Umar Gul Zulfiqar Babar Elton ChigumburaSilver Umar Amin Kamran Ghulam Imran Khalid Babar Azam Sam Billings Sohail Khan Usama Mir Nauman Anwar Iftikhar Ahmed Mushfiqur Rahim Azhar Ali Zohaib Khan Zia Ul Haq Hammad Azam Zafar Gohar Abdur Rehman Shahid Yousaf Imran Khan Jr Aamer Yamin Dawid Malan Asad Shafiq Saad Nasim Mohammad Nawaz Bilal Asif Mohammad NabiEmerging Rumman Raees Amad Butt Saifullah Bangash Mir Hamza Adnan Rasool Naved Yasin Hassan Ali Musadiq Ahmed Bismillah Khan Akbar Ur RehmanSupplementary Ashar Zaidi Saeed Ajmal Hussain Talat Umar Siddiq Shahzaib Hasan Fawad Alam TM Dilshan Mukhtar Ahmed Abdul Razzaq Ehsan Adil Imran Butt Taj Wali Israrullah Brad Hodge Mohammad Asghar Rameez Raja Jr Aizaz Cheema Kumar Sangakkara Supplementary players are those who picked by their team as extra players and their contracts will start only after they join their teams when one of the main team player gets injured or is unavailable to play.
Post-Draft Signings These Players were signed by franchises after the draft. +PlayerTeamPost- Draft CategoryDwayne SmithIUPlatinumNathan McCullumQGPlatinumRyan ten DoeschateKKDiamondAjantha MendisLQDiamondShaun TaitPZDiamondGrant ElliottQGDiamondAzhar MahmoodIUDiamondOwais ShahKKGoldRiki WesselsKKSilverJonny BairstowPZSilver
References
External links Tournament Site – ESPNcricinfo