2022 Kashmir Premier League players draft

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2022 KPL Draft
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General information
Sport Cricket
Date(s)21 July 2022
LocationAura Grande Enclave
Islamabad, Pakistan
Overview
League Kashmir Premier League
Teams7
First selection Faheem Ashraf, Jammu Janbaz
←  2021

The players draft for the 2022 Kashmir Premier League took place on 21 July 2022. The players were divided into 7 categories: Icon, Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver, Emerging and Kashmiri. Each team chose 2 platinum players, 2 diamond players, 2 gold players, 4 silver players, 2 emerging players and 5 Kashmiri players. The 2022 KPL did not feature foreign players. [1]

Contents

Key

SymbolMeaning
†Player was traded
♠Player was part of the base squad of their team

Background

The franchises all announced their icon players prior to the draft. Kamran Akmal was announced as Bagh Stallions’ icon player. [2] Sharjeel Khan was announced as Jammu Janbaz’s icon player. [3] [4] Former Pakistani captain, Sarfaraz Ahmed, was announced as Kotli Lions’ captain. [5] [6] Mirpur Royals retained Shoaib Malik as their icon player. [7] Muzaffarabad Tigers also retained Mohammad Hafeez as their icon player.[ citation needed ] Overseas Warriors selected Asad Shafiq as their icon player. [8] Rawalakot Hawks announced that Mohammad Amir would be their icon player. [9] [10] The PCB was giving permission to draft foreign players who retired at least 5 years ago but the franchises were not interested in drafting them. [11] The KPL president, Arif Malik, confirmed that the centrally contracted players chosen for the Netherlands tour would not participate in the KPL but they were requesting if the remaining contracted players could play. [11] The PCB later allowed Fawad Alam, Azhar Ali, Abid Ali, Nauman Ali, Haseebullah, Mohammad Huraira and Ali Usman to participate in the tournament. [12] Later, Sarfaraz Ahmed was also granted permission to play in the KPL. [13] Khurram Manzoor was announced as Kotli Lions’ icon player. [14]

Base squads

Each franchise released a “Base Squad” prior to the draft. These were the 4-5 players that each franchise was retaining. Muzaffarabad Tigers and Bagh Stallions traded Sohaib Maqsood for Iftikhar Ahmed in their base squads. [15]

Bagh Stallions Jammu Janbaz Kotli Lions Mirpur Royals Muzaffarabad Tigers Overseas Warriors Rawalakot Hawks

[16] [17]

Picks

Every team had a “Wild Card” which allowed them to move a player’s category up by one or two categories. Each team also had a “Right to Match” card which allowed them to change a player’s category to the one they are picked in instead of the one they were listed in.

CategoryPick No.TeamPlayer
Platinum1 Jammu Janbaz Faheem Ashraf
2 Rawalakot Hawks Ahmed Shehzad
3 Mirpur Royals Imad Wasim
4 Overseas Warriors Azam Khan
5 Bagh Stallions Rumman Raees
6 Kotli Lions Danish Aziz
7 Muzaffarabad Tigers Sohail Tanvir
8 Muzaffarabad Tigers Iftikhar Ahmed
9 Kotli Lions Sarfaraz Ahmed
10 Bagh Stallions Sohaib Maqsood
11 Overseas Warriors Kamran Ghulam
12 Mirpur Royals Haris Sohail
13 Rawalakot Hawks Hussain Talat
14 Jammu Janbaz Shahid Afridi
Diamond1 Bagh Stallions Umar Amin
2 Kotli Lions Ahsan Ali
3 Muzaffarabad Tigers Haseebullah Khan
4 Jammu Janbaz Umar Akmal
5 Rawalakot Hawks Asif Afridi
6 Mirpur Royals Ali Imran
7 Overseas Warriors Imran Randhawa
8 Overseas Warriors Sohail Khan
9 Mirpur Royals Salman Irshad
10 Rawalakot Hawks Zaman Khan
11 Jammu Janbaz Sahibzada Farhan
12 Muzaffarabad Tigers Anwar Ali
13 Kotli Lions Khurram Shehzad
14 Bagh Stallions Aamer Yamin
Gold1 Kotli Lions Irfanullah Shah
2 Overseas Warriors Umaid Asif
3 Bagh Stallions Kashif Bhatti
4 Jammu Janbaz Usama Mir
5 Mirpur Royals Abrar Ahmed
6 Rawalakot Hawks Amad Butt
7 Muzaffarabad Tigers Zeeshan Ashraf
8 Mirpur Royals Muhammad Akhlaq
9 Muzaffarabad Tigers Arshad Iqbal
10 Overseas Warriors Saif Badar
11 Bagh Stallions Mohammad Imran
12 Rawalakot Hawks Bismillah Khan
13 Jammu Janbaz Akif Javed
14 Kotli Lions Khalid Usman
Silver1 Rawalakot Hawks Zeeshan Malik
2 Jammu Janbaz Imran Khan
3 Muzaffarabad Tigers Mir Hamza
4 Kotli Lions Mushtaq Kalhoro
5 Bagh Stallions Mohammad Sarwar
6 Mirpur Royals Kashif Ali
7 Overseas Warriors Adil Amin
8 Rawalakot Hawks Musadiq Ahmed
9 Jammu Janbaz Umar Siddiq
10 Muzaffarabad Tigers Ahmed Safi Abdullah
11 Kotli Lions Hassan Khan
12 Bagh Stallions Sharoon Siraj
13 Mirpur Royals Hamza Arshad
14 Overseas Warriors Bilal Asif
15 Mirpur Royals Zubair Lodhi
16 Muzaffarabad Tigers Salman Fayyaz
17 Overseas Warriors Ali Shafiq
18 Bagh Stallions Ahmed Jamal
19 Rawalakot Hawks Faisal Akram
20 Jammu Janbaz Ahmed Khan
21 Kotli Lions Hanif Azad
22 Kotli Lions Hasan Mohsin
23 Overseas Warriors Muhammad Shehzad
24 Bagh Stallions Atizaz Habib Khan
25 Jammu Janbaz Shahzab
26 Mirpur Royals Zaid Alam
27 Rawalakot Hawks Ammad Alam
28 Muzaffarabad Tigers Taimoor Sultan
Emerging1 Overseas Warriors Umer Zeeshan
2 Mirpur Royals Hassan Nawaz
3 Rawalakot Hawks Saeedullah
4 Jammu Janbaz Hamza Shah Afridi
5 Muzaffarabad Tigers Aaqib Liaquat
6 Kotli Lions Imran Shah
7 Bagh Stallions Maaz Khan
8 Bagh Stallions Sajjad Ali
9 Kotli Lions Irfan Ali Qasmi
10 Muzaffarabad Tigers Amir Khan
11 Jammu Janbaz Samiullah Afridi
12 Rawalakot Hawks Ihsanullah
13 Mirpur Royals Ali Razzaq
14 Overseas Warriors Khawaja Muhammad
Kashmiri1 Overseas Warriors Farhan Shafiq
2 Mirpur Royals Shadab Majeed
3 Rawalakot Hawks Zain-ul-Hassan
4 Jammu Janbaz Mehran Mumtaz
5 Muzaffarabad Tigers Aqib Ilyas
6 Kotli Lions Zayyan Khan
7 Bagh Stallions Hasan Raza
8 Kotli Lions Basit Ali
9 Jammu Janbaz Naqash Basharat
10 Muzaffarabad Tigers Saad Bin Zafar
11 Bagh Stallions Daniyal Allah Ditta
12 Mirpur Royals Sufyan Moqim
13 Overseas Warriors Hannan Ahmed
14 Rawalakot Hawks Saif Ali Zaib
15 Muzaffarabad Tigers Inzamam-ul-Haq
16 Mirpur Royals Shan Khan
17 Jammu Janbaz Faisal Altaf
18 Overseas Warriors Syed Hashim Ali
19 Rawalakot Hawks Atif Sheikh
20 Kotli Lions Naveed Malik
21 Bagh Stallions Aamir Shehzad
22 Jammu Janbaz Najam Naseer Kiyani
23 Mirpur Royals Umar Hayat
24 Bagh Stallions Arsalan Arif
25 Rawalakot Hawks Raja Farhan Khan
26 Overseas Warriors Saad Asif
27 Muzaffarabad Tigers Usman Maroof
28 Kotli Lions Mujtaba Ghayas
29 Mirpur Royals Faizan Saleem
30 Kotli Lions Nadeem Khalil
31 Bagh Stallions Raja Farhan
32 Overseas Warriors Malik Nisar
33 Rawalakot Hawks Kashif Ali
34 Muzaffarabad Tigers Usama Fazal
35 Jammu Janbaz Muhammad Shehzad

[18] [19]

Supplementary draft

A supplementary draft was also held. Each team was allowed to select two supplementary players. The following are the picks:

TeamPlayer
Bagh Stallions Ali Majid
Abdul Bangalzai
Jammu Janbaz Azaz Khan
Akash Afridi
Kotli Lions Abdul Rehman
Mirpur Royals Yasir Shah
Raza-ul-Mustafa
Muzaffarabad Tigers Ahmed Daniyal
Ameer Hamza
Overseas Warriors Muhammad Sameer
Shayan Raza
Rawalakot Hawks Sohail Akhtar
Sameen Gul

Draft summary

Category Bagh Stallions Jammu Janbaz Kotli Lions Mirpur Royals Muzaffarabad Tigers Overseas Warriors Rawalakot Hawks
Icon
Platinum
Diamond
Gold
Silver
Emerging
Kashmiri
Supplementary
  • Flag of Pakistan.svg Abdul Rehman

Post-draft signings

PlayerTeam
Flag of Pakistan.svg Omair Yousuf Kotli Lions
Flag of Pakistan.svg Mirwais Khan
Flag of Pakistan.svg Arsalan Mehzood Mirpur Royals
Flag of Pakistan.svg Izhar-ul-Haq
Flag of Pakistan.svg Nosherwan Ibrahim Overseas Warriors

Replacements

PlayerTeamReplaced with
Flag of Pakistan.svg Ahmed Jamal Bagh Stallions Flag of Pakistan.svg Aamer Jamal
Flag of Pakistan.svg Raja Farhan Khan Flag of Pakistan.svg Awais Akram
Flag of England.svg Atif Sheikh Rawalakot Hawks Flag of Pakistan.svg Babar Khaliq
Flag of England.svg Kashif Ali Flag of Pakistan.svg Khawaja Muhammad Bilal
Flag of England.svg Saif Zaib Flag of Pakistan.svg Rohaan Qadri
Flag of England.svg Zain-ul-Hassan Flag of Pakistan.svg Rohail Nazir

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Overseas Warriors is a franchise cricket team that represents Kotli in the Kashmir Premier League. Asad Shafiq was the captain and Azam Khan was the coach of the team. Asad Shafiq was announced as Overseas Warriors’ icon player.

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