Babar Azam and David Warner were among new faces as all six city-based franchises finalized their their squads for the Global T20 Canada 2024 season during the nation-wide player draft which was held on Friday (June 21).
GT20 Canada is set to return for its fourth edition, bringing the best T20 action featuring the top international cricket talents along with local heroes to Brampton from July 25th to August 11th, 2024.

The six teams competing in the GT20 Canada 2024 edition will be defending champions Montreal Tigers, last season's runners up Surrey Jaguars, Vancouver Knights, Brampton Wolves, Toronto Nationals and newcomers Bangla Tigers Mississauga, who replace Mississauga Panthers.
While several teams retained players from the previous edition, many roped in new players, including international stars on the day of the players draft. Marcus Stoinis, Sunil Narine and Kyle Mayers were signed by Surrey Jaguars.
The new team, Bangla Tigers Mississauga roped in Shakib Al Hasan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, while Montreal Tigers, who retained the services of Chris Lynn and Sherfane Rutherford, signed Naveen-ul-Haq for the upcoming season.
After retaining Colin Munro, Toronto Nationals signed Shaheen Shah Afridi and Romario Shepherd. Brampton Wolves roped in Warner, Beau Webster and Andrew Tye. Vancouver Knight signed Pakistan trio Babar, Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad Amir.
Three Nepalese players - Sandeep Lamichhane, Rohit Paudel, and Dipendra Singh Airee, are gearing up to participate in the 2024 Global T20 Canada (GT20) League.
As for Canadian marquee signings, Shreyas Movva was signed by Surrey Jaguars. Kaleem Salna and Dilpreet Bajwa were retained by Montreal Tigers. Here is a look at the Global T20 Canada Squads of all six teams:
Chris Lynn, Aayan Afzal Khan, Dilpreet Bajwa, Gerhard Erasmus, Zahoor Khan, Tom Latham, Ben Manenti, Azmatullah Omarzai, Sherfane Rutherford, Mohammad Saifuddin, Kaleem Sana, Naveen-ul-Haq, Parveen Dhull, Yuvraj Hundal, Prabhasees Raina, Charanjit Randhawa, Anoop Ravi, Aaditya Varadarajan.
Marcus Stoinis, Uday Bhagwan, Rizwan Cheema, Navneet Dhaliwal, Terrance Hinds, Ben Lister, Kyle Mayers, Brandon McMullen, Shreyas Movva, Mohammad Nabi, Sunil Narine, Junaid Siddiqui, Virandeep Singh, Harmeet Singh Baddhan, Hamza Tariq, Logan van Beek, Mansab Gill, Padam Joshi.
Shaheen Afridi, Saad Bin Zafar, Rassie van der Dussen, Nikhil Dutta, Andries Gous, Rishad Hossain, Nicholas Kirton, Colin Munro, Mohammad Nawaz, Rohit Paudel, Romario Shepherd, Junaid Siddiqui, Dilraj Deol, Armaan Kapoor, Kanwar Mann, Jatinder Matharu, Mohammad Rohid Khan, Jagandeep Singh.
Shakib Al Hasan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Dilon Heyliger, Shoriful Islam, Rayyan Pathan, Pargat Singh, Odean Smith, Muhammad Waseem, David Wiese, Hazratullah Zazai, Gurbaz Bajwa, Navjot Dosanjh, Farhan Khan, Nav Pabreja, Ravinder Reddy, Gurpal Sidhu, Tajinder Singh.
David Warner, Carlos Brathwaite, Josh Brown, Aryan Dutt, Jack Jarvis, Muhammad Jawadullah, Aaron Johnson, Abhijai Mansingh, George Munsey, Ravinderpal Singh, Kanwarpal Tathgur, Andrew Tye, Beau Webster, Harmandeep Bahia, Kobe Herft, Akhil Kumar, Robin Singh, Samerjeet Singh.
Babar Azam, Asif Ali, Mohammad Amir, Jeremy Gordon, Rishiv Joshi, Sandeep Lamichhane, Dwaine Pretorius, Michael Rippon, Mohammad Rizwan, Dipendra Singh Airee, Harsh Thaker, Ruben Trumpelmann, Paul van Meekeren, Sarmad Anwar, Mandeep Girdhar, Yuvraj Samra, Shubham Sharma, Ajayveer Singh.