2021 Kashmir Premier League players draft

The players draft for the 2021 Kashmir Premier League took place on 3 July 2021 at the Tulip Banquet Hall in Islamabad.[1] A total of 413 players signed up for the KPL. The players were divided into 7 categories: Icon, Overseas, Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver and Emerging.[2] The emerging category was further divided into Overseas Kashmiris, Local Kashmiris and Non-Kashmiris.[3] Each team chose 1 Icon player, 1 Overseas player, 1 Platinum player, 2 Diamond players, 2 Gold players, 3 Silver players and 5 Emerging players. Many people attended the draft including Chairman of the Kashmir Committee Shehryar Khan Afridi, Senator Faisal Javed, President of the KPL: Arif Malik and CEO of the KPL: Chaudhary Shahzad Akhtar.[4]

2021 KPL Draft
General information
SportCricket
Date(s)3 July 2021
LocationTulip Banquet Hall
Islamabad, Pakistan
Overview
LeagueKashmir Premier League
Teams6
First selectionHerschelle Gibbs, Overseas Warriors

Players signed up per country
Country Number of Players
 Pakistan 364
 England 25
 United Arab Emirates 9
 South Africa 3
 Australia 2
 Canada 2
 Bahrain 1
 Germany 1
 Hong Kong 1
 Italy 1
 Sri Lanka 1
 Turkey 1
 United States 1
 West Indies 1
Total 413

Draft picks

Herschelle Gibbs was the first player to be picked in the draft.[5] Shan Masood was the first non-foreign player to be picked in the draft. The icon players had already been signed prior to the draft.

Category Pick No. Nationality Name
Overseas 1  South Africa Herschelle Gibbs
2  England Phil Mustard
3 Matt Prior
4 Owais Shah
5  Sri Lanka Tillakaratne Dilshan
6  England Monty Panesar
Platinum 1  Pakistan Shan Masood
2 Kamran Akmal
3 Sohail Tanvir
4 Sharjeel Khan
5 Haider Ali
6 Mohammad Hasnain
Diamond 1 Sohaib Maqsood
2 Asif Ali
3 Iftikhar Ahmed
4 Khushdil Shah
5 Hussain Talat
6 Sohail Khan
7 Ahmed Shehzad
8 Azam Khan
9 Usman Qadir
10 Mohammad Wasim
11 Mohammad Irfan
12 Umaid Asif
Gold 1 Muhammad Musa
2 Danish Aziz
3 Arshad Iqbal
4 Rohail Nazir
5 Salman Irshad
6 Imran Khan
7 Waqas Maqsood
8 Zeeshan Ashraf
9 Mohammad Ilyas
10 Akif Javed
11 Amad Butt
12 Haris Sohail
Silver 1 Zafar Gohar
2 Khalid Usman
3 Sohail Akhtar
4 Qasim Akram
5 Mohammad Imran
6 Mukhtar Ahmed
7 Usama Mir
8 Hammad Azam
9 Irfanullah Shah
10 Zeeshan Malik
11 Bismillah Khan
12 Abrar Ahmed
13 Mohammad Imran Randhawa
14 Junaid Ali
15 Abbas Afridi
16 Anwar Ali
17 Muhammad Akhlaq
18 Usman Mughal
Emerging 1  United States Abdullah Syed
2  Pakistan Zeeshan Zameer
3  England Kashif Ali
4  Pakistan Rashid Naseer
5 Arsalan Arif
6 Shadab Majeed
7  England Furqan Shafique
8  Pakistan Danyal Allah Ditta
9 Tahir Hussain
10  England Uthman Ali Khan
11  Pakistan Syed Hashim Ali
12  United Arab Emirates Faisal Altaf
13  Pakistan Hasan Raza
14 Sufyan Moqeem
15 Mohammad Taha
16 Zaman Khan
17 Naveed Malik
18 Inzamam-ul-Haq
19 Waleed Ahmed
20 Yasir Jan
21 Ibtesam-ul-Haq
22  England Usman Arshad
23  Pakistan Samiullah Afridi
24 Mohammad Junaid
25 Abdul Rehman
26 Taimoor Sultan
27 Shahid Ilyas
28 Aamir Sohail
29 Ammad Alam
30 Raza-ul-Mustafa

[6]

Draft summary

The following is the summary of the teams.

Class Bagh Stallions Kotli Lions Mirpur Royals Muzaffarabad Tigers Overseas Warriors Rawalakot Hawks
Icon
Overseas
Platinum
Diamond
Gold
Silver
Emerging
  • Abdul Rehman
  • Abdullah Syed
  • Hasan Raza
  • Syed Hashim Ali
  • Yasir Jan
  • Naveed Malik
  • Rashid Naseer
  • Raza-ul-Mustafa
  • Uthman Ali Khan
  • Waleed Ahmed

Post draft signings
Players Pre-Draft Category
Asad Shafiq Platinum
Usman Shinwari
Aamer Yamin Gold
Agha Salman
Kamran Ghulam
Sameen Gul
Umar Amin
Adil Amin Silver
Ahsan Ali
Asif Afridi
Hasan Khan
Kashif Bhatti
Khurram Shahzad
Mohammad Haris
Saif Badar
Basit Ali Emerging
Faizan Saleem
Malik Nisar
Mujtaba Ghayyas
Nadeem Khalil
Najeebullah Afridi
Raja Farhan Khan
Raja Shahzad
Usman Yousuf

References
  1. "Kashmir Premier League Draft".
  2. "Kashmir Premier League names categories for players' drafting". Khilari. 30 June 2021.
  3. "Introducing the Emerging Category of players for the KPL Draft". kpl20.com.
  4. "Kashmir Premier League kicks-off with mega draft event". Daily Pakistan. 5 July 2021.
  5. "KPL 2021 Draft". Cricsload.
  6. "Kashmir Premier League 2021 complete squads for all teams". cricketholicpk.com. 4 July 2021.
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