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LAHORE: National Command Operation Center (NCOC) allowed Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to host full crowd during the upcoming edition of Pakistan Super League (PSL).

As per the NCOC guidelines, only vaccinated spectators would be able to enter the stadium during the league. Spectators and organizers must strictly follow precautionary measures; wearing masks and social distancing must be maintained.

The seventh edition of the PSL will take place from January 27 to February 27. The event’s 34 matches are set to take place in two legs at Karachi’s National Stadium and Gaddafi Stadium Lahore, respectively.

If the COVID-19 cases arouse across the country, the NCOC will review the decision in the third week of January.

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LAHORE: Salman Naseer, Chief Operating Officer of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), spoke to the media to discuss the preparations for the upcoming season of Pakistan Super League (PSL).

Talking about the arrangements for the upcoming PSL season, Mr. Salman said that the board is planning to book an entire hotel for the teams and the staff members.

The board is also eager of proving a very tight bio-secure bubble for the PSL; with no outside interaction will be allowed, Mr. Salman said.

“In Lahore, we are considering a wing, which would set up the entire bubble,” he said.

“Taking strict precautionary measures; we will book an entire hotel in Karachi too,” he concluded.

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LAHORE: All six franchises have completed their 18-member squad for upcoming seventh edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL). 

The league’s new edition will be held between January 27 to February 27 in Karachi and Lahore.

Here’re all six squads for PSL 7

KARACHI KINGS: Babar Azam, Imad Wasim, Chris Jordan, Lewis Gregory, Mohammad Nabi, Mohammad Amir, Joe Clarke, Sharjeel Khan, Aamer Yamin, Umaid Asif, Tom Abell, Rohail Nazir, Mohammad Imran, Mohammad Ilyas, Faisal Akram, Qasim Akram, Talha Ahsan, Romario Shepherd

LAHORE QALADARS: Fakhar Zaman, Rashid Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad Hafeez, Abdullah Shafique, Phil Salt, Harry Brook, David Wiese, Haris Rauf, Kamran Ghulam, Dean Foxcroft, Sohail Akhtar, Zeeshan Ashraf, Ahmed Daniyal, Zaman Khan, Maaz Khan, Samit Patel, Syed Faridoun Mehmood

ISLAMABAD UNITED: Colin Munro, Alex Hales, Asif Ali, Shadab Khan, Azam Khan, Hasan Ali, Marchant De Lange, Faheem Ashraf, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Mohammad Akhlaq, Reece Topley, Danish Aziz, Zafar Gohar, Paul Stirling, Mubasir Khan, Mohammad Zeeshan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ather Mehmood

PESHAWAR ZALMI: Hazratullah Zazai, Liam Livingstone, Kamran Akmal, Wahab Riaz, Shoaib Malik, Sherfane Rutherford, Haider Ali, Usman Qadir, Saqib Mahmood, Hussain Talat, Salman Irshad, Arshad Iqbal, Sameen Gul, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Sirajuddin, Mohammad Amir Khan, Ben Cutting, Mohammad Haris

QUETTA GLADIATORS: Jason Roy, James Vince, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shahid Afridi, James Faulkner, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah, Umar Akmal, Sohail Tanvir, Ben Duckett, Khurram Shehzad, Naveenul Haq, Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, Mohammad Ashar Qureshi, Noor Ahmad, Ahsan Ali

MULTAN SULTANS: Tim David, Mohammad Rizwan, Rilee Rossouw, Shan Masood, Khushdil Shah, Shahnawaz Dahani, Odean Smith, Sohaib Maqsood, Imran Tahir, Rumman Raees, Asif Afridi, Anwar Ali, Rovman Powell, Imran Khan Sr, Abbas Afridi, Aamer Azmat, Blessing Muzarabani, Ihsanullah

READ: PSL 7 Draft: Teams complete their squads for PSL 7

LAHORE: The players’ draft for Pakistan Super League (PSL) season 7 has just begin here at National High Performance Centre. 

Platinum Category

Lahore Qalandars: Fakhar Zaman

Multan Sultans: Tim David (Wild Card)

Karachi Kings: Chris Jordan

Islamabad United: Colin Munro

Peshawar Zalmi: Hazratullah Zazai

Quetta Gladiators: Jason Roy

Diamond Category

Round 1

Islamabad United: Marchant De Lange

Multan Sultans: Odean Smith

Karachi Kings: Lewis Gregory

Quetta Gladiators: James Faulkner

Gold Category

Round 1

Lahore Qalandars: Abdullah Shafique

Peshawar Zalmi: Usman Qadir

Round 2

Lahore Qalandars: Phil Salt

Round 3

Lahore Qalandars: Harry Brook

Silver Category

Round 1

Peshawar Zalmi: Salman Irshad

Multan Sultans: Rumman Raees

Karachi Kings: Umaid Asif

Peshawar Zalmi: Asif Afridi

Lahore Qalandars: Kamran Ghulam

Islamabad United: Mohammad Akhlaq

Round 2

Multan Sultans: Anwar Ali

Islamabad United: Reece Topley

Karachi Kings: Tom Abell

Lahore Qalandar: Dean Foxcroft

Quetta Gladiators: Umar Akmal

Round 3

Islamabad United: Danish Aziz, Zafar Gohar

Quetta Gladiators: Sohail Tanvir

Karachi Kings: Rohail Nazir

Peshawar Zalmi: Arshad Iqbal

Multan Sultans: Rovman Powell

Round 4

Karachi Kings: Mohammad Imran Jr

Peshawar Zalmi: Sameen Gul, Kamran Akmal

Quetta Gladiators: Ben Duckett

Multan Sultans: Imran Khan Sr

Round 5

Quetta Gladiators: Khurram Shehzad, Naveenul Haq

Emerging Category

Round 1

Lahore Qalandars: Zaman Khan

Multan Sultans: Abbas Afridi

Karachi Kings: Faisal Akram, Qasim Akram

Peshawar Zalmi: Sirajuddin

Islambad United: Mubasir Khan

Quetta Gladiators: Abdul Wahid Bangalzai

Round 2

Multan Sultans: Amir Azmat

Islamabad United: Mohammad Zeeshan

Peshawar Zalmi: Mohammad Amir Khan

Quetta Gladiators: Mohammad Ashar Qureshi

Lahore Qalandars: Maaz Khan

Supplementary Category

Quetta Gladiators: Noor Ahmed

Karachi Kings: Talha Ahsan

Multan Sultans: Blessing Muzarabbani

Peshawar Zalmi: Ben Cutting

Islamabad United: Rahmanullah Gurbaz

Lahore Qalandars: Samit Patel

Round 2

Peshawar Zalmi: Mohammad Haris

Islamabad: United: Ather Mehmood

Karachi Kings: Romario Shepherd

Quetta Gladiators: Ahsan Ali

Multan Sultans: Ihsanullah

Lahore Qalandars: Syed Faridoun Mehmood

More to follow..

LAHORE: The players’ draft for Pakistan Super League (PSL) season 7 is just around the corner and here’re some important details you need to know before it kicks off here at National High-Performance Centre. 

Pick Order

Lahore Qalandars will have the first pick in the platinum, diamond, gold and emerging categories. They will be followed in the top band by Multan Sultans, Karachi Kings, Islamabad United, Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators.

Here’s the updated Pick Order for the Draft, in line with the trades and retentions. #HBLPSLDraft pic.twitter.com/A6SWPNIwIL

— PakistanSuperLeague (@thePSLt20) December 11, 2021

Players retained

Islamabad United

Asif Ali, Hasan Ali, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Alex Hales, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Azam Khan, Paul Stirling

Karachi Kings

Babar Azam, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Nabi, Mohammad Amir, Joe Clarke, Sharjeel Khan, Aamer Yamin, Mohammad Ilyas

Lahore Qalandars

Shaheen Shah Afridi, Rashid Khan, David Wiese, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hafeez, Sohail Akhtar, Zeeshan Ashraf, Ahmed Daniyal

Multan Sultans

Mohammad Rizwan, Rilee Rossouw, Sohaib Maqsood, Imran Tahir, Shan Masood, Khushdil Shah, Shahnawaz Dhani

Peshawar Zalmi

Wahab Riaz, Liam Livingstone, Shaoib Malik, Sherfane Rutherford, Haider Ali, Saqib Mahmood, Hussain Talat, Tom Kohler-Cadmore

Quetta Gladiators

James Vince, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah

KARACHI: The retention, trade and release window for the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2022 closed on Friday afternoon. All the franchises announced retained players.

All the PSL franchises have retained full allocations of eight players, except, Multan Sultans and Quetta Gladiators, both retained seven players.

QUETTA GLADIATORS: Sarfaraz Ahmed, James Vince, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hasnain and Naseem Shah.

ISLAMABAD UNITED: Asif Ali, Hasan Ali, Faheem Ashraf, Shadab Khan, Alex Hales, Azam Khan, Mohammad Wasim Jnr and Paul Stirling.

KARACHI KINGS: Babar Azam, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Nabi, Joe Clarke, Aamir Yamin, Sharjeel Khan and Mohammad Ilyas.

LAHORE QALANDARS: Rashid Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, David Wiese, Mohammad Hafeez, Ahmed Daniyal, Sohail Akhtar and Zeeshan Ashraf.

MULTAN SULTANS:  Mohammad Rizwan, Rilee Rossouw, Imran Tahir, Sohaib Maqsood, Khushdil Shah, Shahnawaz Dahani and Shan Masood.

PESHAWAR ZALMI: Liam Livingstone, Wahab Riaz, Haider Ali, Sherfane Rutherford, Shoaib Malik, Hussain Talat, Saqib Mahmood and Tom Kohler-Cadmore.

The PSL draft will be held at National High-Performance Center on 12th December. The drafting has attracted over 425 players from 32 countries. In the Platinum Category, Lahore Qalandars will have the first pick, followed by Sultans, Karachi Kings, Islamabad United, Peshawar Zalmi and Gladiators.

Each franchise can comprise up to 18 players, including three each in Platinum, Diamond, and Gold categories; five Silver, two Emerging and up to two Supplementary categories.

KARACHI: Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise Karachi Kings has appointed former England cricketer Peter Moores as its new head coach for season seven.

Kings’ newly appointed head coach, Moores, who has twice coached England’s National Cricket team, acknowledged the PSL as one of the best leagues and expressed his excitement to be a part of the Kings family.

“I am very excited to be a part of Karachi Kings family. PSL is one of the best tournaments in the world.”, he said.

Moores also praised the culture and passion of Pakistan’s cricketers and fans, and expressed hope that he can help Kings win another title.

“The culture and the spirit of the people here is admirable. Every effort will be made to win the trophy again for Karachi Kings.”, he concluded.

Moores also has valuable coaching experience with franchise teams. He also helped Nottingham to become the 2020 champions as head coach.

It should be noted that Kings have recently named Babar Azam as their captain for the upcoming PSL season.

READ: Babar Azam named Karachi Kings’ captain for PSL 7

LAHORE: Pakistan Super League (PSL) season 7 is all set to start from January 27 at Karachi’s National Stadium, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Friday. 

The defending champions Multan Sultans will face off hosts and 2020 PSL champions Karachi Kings at the National Stadium. On the next day, the 2019 champions Quetta Gladiators will square off against the 2017 champions Peshawar Zalmi.

The first 15 matches of the tournament will be played in Karachi. Whereas, the remaining 19 matches will be played in Lahore.

The qualifiers will be played on February 23, while the first and second eliminators will be played on February 24 and 25, respectively. The final of the event will be played on February 27 in Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.

The drafting of players for the event will take place on December 12 at 3 pm at the High Performance Center, Lahore.

On the announcement, PCB’s chairman Ramiz Raja said he is delighted to announce that PSL 7 is going to start in January, next year.

“I am delighted that the HBL PSL 7 schedule has been announced. This will now get the ball rolling with the teams to start planning and finalizing their line-ups and the PCB increasing the pace of the operational delivery to ensure they provide quality playing facilities for the players as well as five-star experience to the fans and our valued commercial partners,” he said.

Ramiz also said that year 2022 will be a bumper year for Pakistan Cricket and its fans.

“The PSL 7 will also kick start what will be a bumper year for Pakistan cricket with the Australia men’s cricket team to play a full series in March-April with England men’s cricket side to tour Pakistan twice for white-ball and red ball cricket,” he maintained.

SCHEDULE

27 Jan – Karachi Kings vs Multan Sultans

28 Jan – Quetta Gladiators vs Peshawar Zalmi

29 Jan – Multan Sultans vs Lahore Qalandars; Karachi Kings vs Quetta Gladiators

30 Jan – Peshawar Zalmi vs Islamabad United; Karachi Kings vs Lahore Qalandars

31 Jan – Quetta Gladiators vs Multan Sultans

1 Feb – Islamabad United vs Multan Sultans

2 Feb – Peshawar Zalmi vs Lahore Qalandars

3 Feb – Quetta Gladiators vs Islamabad United

4 Feb – Karachi Kings vs Peshawar Zalmi

5 Feb – Islamabad United vs Lahore Qalandars; Peshawar Zalmi vs Multan Sultans

6 Feb – Karachi Kings vs Islamabad United

7 Feb – Quetta Gladiators vs Lahore Qalandars

10 Feb- Multan Sultans vs Peshawar Zalmi

11 Feb – Lahore Qalandars vs Multan Sultans

12 Feb – Islamabad United vs Quetta Gladiators

13 Feb – Peshawar Zalmi vs Karachi Kings; Lahore Qalandars vs Quetta Gladiators

14 Feb – Islamabad United vs Karachi Kings

15 Feb – Peshawar Zalmi vs Quetta Gladiators

16 Feb – Multan Sultans vs Karachi Kings

17 Feb – Islamabad United vs Peshawar Zalmi

18 Feb – Multan Sultans vs Quetta Gladiators; Lahore Qalandars vs Karachi Kings

19 Feb – Lahore Qalandars vs Islamabad United

20 Feb – Quetta Gladiators vs Karachi Kings; Multan Sultans vs Islamabad United

21 Feb – Lahore Qalandars vs Peshawar Zalmi

23 Feb – Qualifier (1 vs 2)

24 Feb – Eliminator 1 (3 vs 4)

25 Feb – Eliminator 2 (Loser Qualifier 1 vs Winner Eliminator 1)

27 Feb – (Qualifier v Eliminator 2) Final

Match timings:

Friday’s double-headers – 3pm & 8pm

Other than Friday’s double-headers – 2pm & 7pm

All single-headers – 7pm

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KARACHI: Former International cricketer Shahid Afridi said he will decide franchise for Pakistan Super League (PSL) season 7 closer to the time of the event.

Speaking to media here on Wednesday, Afridi responded to reports regarding his inclusion in Quetta Gladiators for PSL 7.

“Nothing is decided as of yet. The owners of Multan Sultans and Quetta Gladiators and their fans love me. But, I haven’t decided anything for now,” he said.

It must be noted here that PSL 7’s draft is likely to take place on December 6 or 8 as per reports. The event is expected in January next year followed by Australia’s tour of Pakistan.

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