WEB DESK: The Pakistan Cricket Board has finalized local category of players that will be renewed in the 11 th edition of the HBL Pakistan Super League and allocated 89 domestic players in five categories.
It has promoted six players to the Platinum category, among them, the captain of Pakistan T20I Salman Ali Agha, Sahibzada Farhan, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali and Abrar Ahmed. Sahibzada Farhan is the only player who has progressed out of Gold category with the rest of the promotions being out of Diamond.
A number of the established stars were also retained such as Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Fakhar Zaman, Shadab Khan, Naseem Shah, Imad Wasim, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Rizwan, Faheem Ashraf, Saim Ayub and Mohammad Amir.
The Diamond category has 11 players, with Mohammad Wasim Jr., Sufyan Moqim and Salman Mirza getting promotions out of Gold. There were 32 players in the Gold category and 30 players in Silver and Emerging categories. Some of these changes have involved Hasan Nawaz being promoted to Gold and a number of players being promoted to Silver.
Franchises are also permitted to keep a maximum of four players, one of each category. After retentions, the first-ever HBL PSL player auction will occur on Feb. 11. Foreign player registration has been prolonged until Feb. 3.
The PCB has encouraged the media houses to refer to the league as HBL PSL throughout their coverage.
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