The replenishment project for the sixth season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) will take place next week in a virtual session with 132 foreign players.
The sixth edition of PSL was postponed to March 4th due to multiple cases of Covid-19 among players and support staff and with 20 games left.
The remaining PSL 6 games will resume on June 1st. The finale is scheduled for June 20th. Due to the Vitality T20 Blast starting June 9th and the ongoing County Championship, no player from England will be available for the event.
PSL’s sixth season before it was postponed included a number of English imports including Saqib Mehmood, Tom Banton, Ravi Bopara, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Alex Hales, and Joe Clarke.
The first list of players who agreed to the tournament includes the following:
Platinum Category
West Indian starter Evin Lewis and eclectic Andre Russell, New Zealand starter Martin Guptill and eclectic Bangladeshi Shakib al Hasan are all platinum-certified.
Lewis is expected to be available through June 16, while Guptill will be available anytime. Russell and Shakib will be available after the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Diamond Category
The diamond category has two Australians: lead researcher Usman Khawaja and the versatile James Faulkner.
The New Zealand pacemaker Adam Milne, the South African sprinter Morne Morkel and the Bangladeshi starter Tamim Iqbal also belong to the category.
Morkel, Faulkner and Khawaja will be fully available for the event, while Milne and Iqbal will join after the IPL and May 27, respectively.
Gold Category
The hand of the Sri Lankan goalkeeper Niroshan Dickwella and the bourgeois hand Dinesh Chandimal belong to the gold category along with the versatile Keemo Paul from West India.
Silver Category
The silver category includes Jake Weatherald and Jonathan Wells from Australia, Hazratullah Zazai from Afghanistan, George Worker from New Zealand, Wesley Madhevere and Sean Williams from Zimbabwe, Taskin Ahmed from Bangladesh, Liton Das and Shabbir Rahman, Nuwan Pradeep and Seekuge Prasanna from Sri Lanka, Johnson Charles and Kesrick Williams from the West Indies and Sissanda Magala from South Africa.
Windies investigators Shimron Hetmyer, South African starter Janneman Malan and versatile New Zealander Corey Anderson are also on PSL’s radar, but their involvement is not yet confirmed.
