HBL Pakistan Super League is all set to roar in February 2016 when the first edition of tournament will be played in United Arab Emirates. There are 5 franchise based club teams will be taking participation in PSL 2016. Islamabad United, Karachi Kings, Lahore Qalandars, Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators are the five teams in competition beginning from 4th February.

Around 308 cricketers went into the first PSL players draft which took place on 21 and 22 December 2015. These players were divided into 5 categories labeled as Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver and Emerging. All team owners and management had to choose 3-3 players each from first three categories whereas 5 players were chosen from Silver and two from Emerging category.

Peshawar Zalmi picked the first player of the draft and its non other Pakistan T20 cricket team captain Shahid Afridi. After this ARY Group Media’s team Karachi Kings signed Shoaib Malik for the first edition.
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Australia’s Shane Watson became the first overseas players picked up in the draft and he went to Islamabad United. Now it’s turn for Quetta Gladiators and they chose sacked English cricketer Kevin Pietersen. In the last pick of Platinum category’s round-1 Lahore Qalandars picked West Indies’ powerful opener Chris Gayle.

See more: PSL 2016 matches schedule

Players were chosen in the pre-decided order for Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver and Emerging categories. After completion of these categories, each team had to choose 4 more players as the supplementary players. The selected supplementary players will play in the league on demand basis. It means if the team requires them, they will tour with the team otherwise not.

Let’s have a look at the completed 16-man teams squad for all 5 playing clubs in HBL Pakistan Super League first season.

Pakistan Super League 2016 Squads

Quetta Gladiators

S. No.	Player	Country	Draft Category
1	Kevin Pietersen	England	Platinum
2	Sarfraz Ahmed (Captain)	Pakistan	Platinum
3	Ahmed Shehzad	Pakistan	Platinum
4	Anwar Ali	Pakistan	Diamond
5	Jason Holder	West Indies	Diamond
6	Luke Wright	England	Diamond
7	Zulfiqar Babar	Pakistan	Gold
8	Umar Gul	Pakistan	Gold
9	Elton Chigumbura	Zimbabwe	Gold
10	Bilal Asif	Pakistan	Silver
11	Asad Shafiq	Pakistan	Silver
12	Mohammad Nawaz	Pakistan	Silver
13	Saad Nasim	Pakistan	Silver
14	Mohammad Nabi	Afghanistan	Silver
15	Akbar-ur-Rehman	Pakistan	Emerging
16	Bismillah Khan	Pakistan	Emerging
17	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	Supplementary
18	Aizaz Cheema	Pakistan	Supplementary
19	Ramiz Raja Jr.	Pakistan	Supplementary
20	N/A	N/A	Supplementary

Lahore Qalandars

S. No.	Player	Country	Draft Category
1	Chris Gayle	West Indies	Platinum
2	Dwayne Bravo	West Indies	Platinum
3	Umar Akmal	Pakistan	Platinum
4	Mohammad Rizwan	Pakistan	Diamond
5	Yasir Shah	Pakistan	Diamond
6	Shoaib Maqsood	Pakistan	Diamond
7	Mustafizur Rahman	Bangladesh	Gold
8	Kevon Cooper	West Indies	Gold
9	Cameron Delport	South Africa	Gold
10	Zafar Gohar	Pakistan	Silver
11	Hammad Azam	Pakistan	Silver
12	Zia-Ul-Haq	Pakistan	Silver
13	Zohaib Khan	Pakistan	Silver
14	Azhar Ali (Captain)	Pakistan	Silver
15	Naved Yasin	Pakistan	Emerging
16	Adnan Rasool	Pakistan	Emerging
17	Abdul Razzaq	Pakistan	Supplementary
18	Mukhtar Ahmed	Pakistan	Supplementary
19	Ehsan Adil	Pakistan	Supplementary
20	Imran Butt	Pakistan	Supplementary

Islamabad United

S. No.	Player	Country	Draft Category
1	Shane Watson	Australia	Platinum
2	Andre Russell	West Indies	Platinum
3	Misbah Ul Haq (Captain)	Pakistan	Platinum
4	Samuel Badree	West Indies	Diamond
5	Mohammad Irfan	Pakistan	Diamond
6	Brad Haddin	Australia	Diamond
7	Sharjeel Khan	Pakistan	Gold
8	Mohammad Sami	Pakistan	Gold
9	Khalid Latif	Pakistan	Gold
10	Babar Azam	Pakistan	Silver
11	Imran Khalid	Pakistan	Silver
12	Kamran Ghulam	Pakistan	Silver
13	Umar Amin	Pakistan	Silver
14	Sam Billings	England	Silver
15	Rumman Raees	Pakistan	Emerging
16	Amad Butt	Pakistan	Emerging
17	Ashar Zaidi	England	Supplementary
18	Saeed Ajmal	Pakistan	Supplementary
19	Hussain Talat	Pakistan	Supplementary
20	Umar Siddique	Pakistan	Supplementary

Peshawar Zalmi

S. No.	Player	Country	Draft Category
1	Shahid Afridi (Captain)	Pakistan	Platinum
2	Wahab Riaz	Pakistan	Platinum
3	Darren Sammy	West Indies	Platinum
4	Kamran Akmal	Pakistan	Diamond
5	Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	Diamond
6	Chris Jordan	England	Diamond
7	Tamim Iqbal	Bangladesh	Gold
8	Junaid Khan	Pakistan	Gold
9	Jim Allenby	England	Gold
10	Aamer Yamin	Pakistan	Silver
11	Dawid Malan	England	Silver
12	Imran Khan Jr.	Pakistan	Silver
13	Shahid Yousuf	Pakistan	Silver
14	Abdur Rehman	Pakistan	Silver
15	Musadiq Ahmad	Pakistan	Emerging
16	Hassan Ali	Pakistan	Emerging
17	Asghar	Pakistan	Supplementary
18	Brad Hodge	Australia	Supplementary
19	Israrullah	Pakistan	Supplementary
20	Taj Wali	Pakistan	Supplementary

Karachi Kings

S. No.	Player	Country	Draft Category
1	Shoaib Malik (Captain)	Pakistan	Platinum
2	Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	Platinum
3	Sohail Tanvir	Pakistan	Platinum
4	Imad Wasim	Pakistan	Diamond
5	Ravi Bopara	England	Diamond
6	Lendl Simmons	West Indies	Diamond
7	Mohammad Amir	Pakistan	Gold
8	Bilawal Bhatti	Pakistan	Gold
9	James Vince	England	Gold
10	Iftikhar Ahmad	Pakistan	Silver
11	Nauman Anwar	Pakistan	Silver
12	Mushfiqur Rahim	Bangladesh	Silver
13	Usama Mir	Pakistan	Silver
14	Sohail Khan	Pakistan	Silver
15	Mir Hamza	Pakistan	Emerging
16	Saifullah Bangash	Pakistan	Emerging
17	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	Supplementary
18	Shahzaib Hassan	Pakistan	Supplementary
19	Fawad Alam	Pakistan	Supplementary
20	N/A	N/A	Supplementary