Pakistan Super League finalise retentions | All details

Pakistan Super League franchise have announced their retentions for the upcoming season of the tournament. The teams were allowed to keep eight players around whom they could build a team for the next season. The PSL teams are allowed to have an 18-member squad for the 2022 season, and they will be in the market to buy the remaining 10 players from a draft scheduled to be held on 12 December in Lahore.

Out of the six franchises, four chose to use their full quota of eight players, while Multan Sultans and Quetta Gladiators chose to use seven.

On expected terms, Rashid Khan, Babar Azam, Liam Livingstone and Mohammad Rizwan have been retained by their franchise. But everyone has not been so lucky. One of the strong performers in the T20 World Cup, Fakhar Zaman has been let go by Lahore Qalandars, but ESPNcricinfo has reported that the franchise will be buying him back.

The retained players have been differentiated in several categories - platinum, diamond, gold and silver. Apart from filling those quotas, the franchise will be picking up two emerging and two supplementary players as well.

Here is the full list of retentions made public by the PCB.

Islamabad United (8)

Platinum - Asif Ali, Hasan Ali

Diamond -  Faheem Ashraf, Shadab Khan (Brand Ambassador), 

Gold - Alex Hales (Mentor), Azam Khan, Mohammad Wasim Jnr 

Silver - Paul Stirling

Remaining picks

Platinum - 1, Diamond - 1, Gold - 0, Silver - 4, Emerging - 2, Supplementary - up to 2

Karachi Kings (8) 

Platinum - Babar Azam, Imad Wasim 

Diamond - Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Nabi 

Gold - Joe Clarke (Brand Ambassador), Aamir Yamin, Sharjeel Khan 

Silver - Mohammad Ilyas 

Remaining picks

Platinum - 1, Diamond - 1, Gold - 0, Silver - 4, Emerging - 2, Supplementary - up to 2

Lahore Qalandars (8) 

Platinum - Rashid Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi 

Diamond - Haris Rauf (Brand Ambassador), David Wiese, Mohammad Hafeez 

Silver - Ahmed Daniyal, Sohail Akhtar and Zeeshan Ashraf

Remaining picks

Platinum - 1, Diamond - 0, Gold - 3, Silver - 2, Emerging - 2, Supplementary - up to 2

Multan Sultans (7) 

Platinum - Mohammad Rizwan, Rilee Rossouw

Diamond - Imran Tahir (Mentor), Sohaib Maqsood

Gold - Khushdil Shah (Brand Ambassador), Shahnawaz Dahani, Shan Masood

Remaining picks

Platinum - 1, Diamond - 1, Gold - 0, Silver - 5, Emerging - 2, Supplementary - up to 2

Peshawar Zalmi (8) 

Platinum - Liam Livingstone, Wahab Riaz 

Diamond - Haider Ali, Sherfane Rutherford, Shoaib Malik 

Gold - Hussain Talat, Saqib Mahmood (Brand Ambassador)

Silver - Tom Kohler-Cadmore 

Remaining picks

Platinum - 1, Diamond - 0, Gold - 1, Silver - 4, Emerging - 2, Supplementary - up to 2

Quetta Gladiators (7) 

Platinum - James Vince, Sarfaraz Ahmed 

Diamond - Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz

Gold - Shahid Afridi (Mentor), Mohammad Hasnain (Brand Ambassador), Naseem Shah

Remaining picks

Platinum - 1, Diamond - 1, Gold - 0, Silver - 5, Emerging - 2, Supplementary - up to 2.