PSL 2024 Retained Players List: Squads Of All Six Teams Ahead Pakistan Super League Season 9 Draft

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PSL 2024 Retained Players List: The retained players list of all the six Pakistan Super League (PSL) teams are out following the completion of the local player category renewal process. The PSL 2024 draft is tentatively scheduled for mid-December.

As many as nine players received their categories upgraded. Also a few players have been demoted. Notably, players who have represented Pakistan internationally cannot be relegated below the gold category. Factors including national team performances, domestic performances and perceived T20 brand value are considered while finalising local players’ categories.

"As part of the category renewal process, franchise representatives were required to vote for every player. Teams were not allowed to vote for their own players but submit review requests at the end of this voting stage," an statement from Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) read.

"The franchises will now put forward relegation requests for the players before finalizing retentions. After relegation requests are floated, all teams are given an opportunity to meet the player’s base category. If the player’s base category is not matched, the player may be relegated to a category below his base category.

"U23 players cannot be part of a squad as an Emerging player for more than two years unless they have played nine or fewer matches in those two years," it added.

PSL 2024: Players who received Upgrades

• Quetta Gladiators players Naseem Shah and Iftikhar Ahmed have been upgraded from Diamond to Platinum
• Sarfraz Ahmed has been moved to Diamond from Gold
• Peshawar Zalmi’s wicketkeeper batter Mohammad Haris has been promoted to diamond from gold
• 27-year-old pacer Salman Irshad has moved to Gold from Silver
• Multan Sultans fast bowlers Abbas Afridi and Ihsanullah have both been promoted to the Gold category. They players as emerging picks in the last season
• Islamabad United wicketkeeper-batter Azam Khan and pace all-rounder Faheem Ashraf have also been upgraded from Gold to Diamond category.
• Zeeshan Zamir has moved from emerging to Silver, while Mubasir Khan has moved from emerging to Gold
• Lahore Qalandars’ Kamran Ghulam and Zaman Khan have been enhanced to Gold from Silver and emerging respectively.

PSL 2024: Players who have been demoted

• Quetta Gladiators' Mohammad Nawaz was moved from Diamond to Platinum
• Mohammad Hasnain of Quetta Gladiators was shifted to Gold from Diamond category
• Karachi Kings' Haider Ali was demoted to Gold from Platinum

PSL 2024 Retained Players List: Squads Of All Six Teams

• Islamabad United Retained Players List: Shadab Khan (Platinum), Asif Ali, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Hasan Ali, Azam Khan, Faheem Ashraf (all Diamond), Sohaib Maqsood, Abrar Ahmed, Rumman Raees, Zafar Gohar, Mubasir Khan (all Gold), Zeeshan Zamir (Silver), Hassan Nawaz (Emerging)

• Karachi Kings Retained Players List: ListImad Wasim (Platinum), Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Amir (both Diamond), Haider Ali, Aamir Yamin, Sharjeel Khan, Mir Hamza, Tayyab Tahir, Musa Khan, Qasim Akram (all Gold), Mohammad Ikhlaq, Mohammad Umar, Akif Javed (all Silver), Irfan Khan Niazi, Faisal Akram (both Emerging)

• Lahore Qalandars Retained Players List: Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, Fakhar Zaman (all Platinum), Hussain Talat, Abdullah Shafique, Kamran Ghulam, Mirza Tahir Baig, Zaman Khan (all Gold), Dilbar Hussain, Ahmed Daniyal, Ahsan Bhatti, Jalat Khan (all Silver), Shawaiz Irfan (Emerging)

• Multan Sultans Retained Players List: Mohammad Rizwan (Platinum), Shan Masood, Khushdil Shah, Usama Mir (all Diamond), Abbas Afridi, Ihsanullah, Arafat Minhas, Shahnawaz Dahani, Anwar Ali (all Gold), Sameen Gul, Sarwar Afridi, Ammad Butt, Mohammad Ilyas (all Silver)

• Peshawar Zalmi Retained Players List: Babar Azam (Platinum), Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Haris, Saim Ayub (all Diamond), Danish Aziz, Arshad Iqbal, Aamer Jamal, Salman Irshad, Usman Qadir, Harris Sohail, Sufyan Muqeem (all Gold), Khurram Shahzad (Silver), Haseebullah, Saad Masood (both Emerging)

• Quetta Gladiators Retained Players List: Naseem Shah, Iftikhar Ahmed (both Platinum), Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Hafeez, Sarfaraz Ahmed (all Diamond), Mohammad Hasnain, Ahsan Ali, Umar Akmal, Omair Bin Yousuf, Saud Shakeel (all Gold), Bismillah Khan, Umaid Asif, Mohammad Zahid, Arshadullah (all Silver), Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, Aimal Khan, Yasir Khan, Khawaja Mohammad Nafay (all Emerging)