PSL draft day 2: Sangakkara and Ajmal get picked, no place for Younis and Jayawardene

The second day of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) draft saw stalwarts like Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan, and Saeed Ajmal getting picked as supplementary players after the teams had exhausted their squads of 16 across the five categories.

The drafts began with teams being asked to pick five players each from the Silver category which saw Mushfiqur Rahim, Babar Azam, and Sam Billings amongst others getting picked. Thereafter, two players each from the Emerging category were to be selected.

Azhar Ali, the Pakistan ODI captain being part of the Emerging category came as a surprise.

After the 16 members of each squad were done with, teams were allowed to pick 4 supplementary players who would be paid only if they make themselves available in the camps of their respective teams.

Hence, the T20 heavyweights who were involved elsewhere, or were expected to be so during the tenure of the tournament were picked during this round.

Brad Hodge, the Australian T20 specialist, Ashar Zaidi, who excelled in the BPL, and hard-hitting veteran all-rounder Abdul Razzaq were among the players who were picked in the last rounds.

However, experienced Pakistani batsman Younis Khan and the veteran Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawardene were not picked by any of the teams despite being available in the pool.

Three players from the Platinum, Diamond and Gold categories were picked yesterday by each team, which included names like Chris Gayle, Kevin Pietersen, and Shahid Afridi amongst other stars.

Here are the five PSL squads at the end of the draft. Some teams have only 19 players because they ran out of cash.

Peshawar Zalmi

Platinum: Shahid Afridi (first pick), Wahab Riaz, Darren Sammy

Diamond: Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Hafeez, Chris Jordan

Gold: Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Khan, Jim Allenby

Silver: Aamer Yamin, Dawid Malan, Imran Khan (jnr), Shahid Yousuf, Abdur Rehman

Emerging: Musadiq Ahmed Ali, Hasan Ali

Supplementary: Mohammad Asghar, Brad Hodge, Israrullah, Taj Wali

Head coach: Mohammad Akram

Karachi Kings

Platinum: Shoaib Malik (first pick), Shakib Al Hasan, Sohail Tanvir

Diamond: Imad Wasim, Ravi Bopara, Lendl Simmons

Gold: Mohammad Amir, Bilawal Bhatti, James Vince

Silver: Iftikhar Ahmed, Nauman Anwar, Mushfiqur Rahim, Usama Mir, Sohail Khan

Emerging: Mir Hamza, Saifullah Bangash

Supplementary: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Shahzaib Hasan, Fawad Alam

Head coach: Mickey Arthur

Islamabad United

Platinum: Shane Watson (first pick), Andre Russell, Misbah-ul-Haq (Capt)

Diamond: Samuel Badree, Mohammad Irfan, Brad Haddin

Gold: Sharjeel Khan, Mohammad Sami, Khalid Latif

Silver: Babar Azam, Imran Khalid, Kamran Ghulam, Umar Amin, Sam Billings

Emerging: Rumman Raees, Amad Butt

Supplementary: Ashar Zaidi, Saeed Ajmal, Hussain Talat, Umar Siddiq

Head coach: Dean Jones

Quetta Gladiators

Platinum: Kevin Pietersen (first pick), Sarfraz Ahmed, Ahmed Shehzad

Diamond: Anwar Ali, Jason Holder, Luke Wright

Gold: Zulfiqar Babar, Umar Gul, Elton Chigumbura

Silver: Bilal Asif, Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Nawaz, Saad Nasim, Mohammad Nabi

Emerging: Akbar-ur-Rehman, Bismillah Khan

Supplementary: Kumar Sangakkara, Aizaz Cheema, Rameez Raja jnr

Head coach: Moin Khan

Lahore Qalandars

Platinum: Chris Gayle (first pick), Dwayne Bravo, Umar Akmal

Diamond: Mohammad Rizwan, Yasir Shah, Sohaib Maqsood

Gold: Mustafizur Rahman, Kevon Cooper, Cameron Delport

Silver: Zafar Gohar, Hammad Azam, Zia ul Haq, Zohaib Khan, Azhar Ali

Emerging: Naved Yasin, Adnan Rasool

Supplementary: Abdul Razzaq, Mukhtar Ahmed, Ehsan Adil, Imran Butt

Head coach: Paddy Upton