# 2023 Pakistan Super League players draft

The player draft for the 2023 Pakistan Super League was held on 15 December 2022. Before the draft teams were allowed to retain a maximum of eight players and make transfers.

## Background

Ramiz Raja had hinted that the draft would be replaced by an auction, but the format was retained. The PCB announced that Lahore Qalandars will have the first pick.
Each team had the right to exercise one wildcard pick. Each team had a right-to-match card which allowed franchises to buy back a maximum of one player they had released by paying a set fee in each category:
* Platinum ($130,000-$170,000)
* Diamond ($60,000-$80,000)
* Gold ($40,000-$50,000)
* Silver ($25,000)
* Emerging ($7,500)

## Transfers

Babar Azam and a supplementary round pick were traded from Karachi Kings to Peshawar Zalmi in return for Shoaib Malik and Haider Ali.

## Retained players

On 11 November 2022, the retained player's list was announced. The franchises were allowed to retain a maximum of eight players from the previous season. All the franchises fully utilized their quota of player retentions apart from Peshawar Zalmi.
| Class | Islamabad United | Karachi Kings | Lahore Qalandars | Multan Sultans | Peshawar Zalmi | Quetta Gladiators |
| Platinum | Shadab Khan | Haider Ali | Shaheen Afridi Rashid Khan | Mohammad Rizwan | Babar Azam | Mohammad Nawaz |
| Diamond | Asif Ali Mohammad Wasim | Imad Wasim Mohammad Amir Shoaib Malik | Haris Rauf David Wiese | Khushdil Shah Shan Masood Rilee Rossouw | Wahab Riaz Sherfane Rutherford | Iftikhar Ahmed Jason Roy |
| Gold | Azam Khan Faheem Ashraf Hasan Ali | | Abdullah Shafique | Shahnawaz Dahani Tim David | Mohammad Haris | Mohammad Hasnain Sarfaraz Ahmed |
| Silver | Colin Munro (mentor) Paul Stirling | Aamer Yamin Mir Hamza Sharjeel Khan | Kamran Ghulam Harry Brook | | Aamer Jamal Salman Irshad Tom Kohler-Cadmore | Umar Akmal (mentor) Naveen-ul-Haq Will Smeed |
| Emerging | | Qasim Akram | Zaman Khan | Abbas Afridi Ihsanullah | | |

## Draft picks

More than 493 foreign players were registered for the draft. For the emerging category, players should be under 23 years of age as of 1 January 2023 and could have either played less than 10 PSL matches in previous seasons or not have been selected in the national squad.
| Class | Islamabad United | Karachi Kings | Lahore Qalandars | Multan Sultans | Peshawar Zalmi | Quetta Gladiators |
| Platinum | Alex Hales Rahmanullah Gurbaz | Matthew Wade Imran Tahir | Fakhar Zaman | David Miller Josh Little | Bhanuka Rajapaksa Rovman Powell | Wanindu Hasaranga Naseem Shah |
| Diamond | Fazalhaq Farooqi | James Vince James Fuller | Hussain Talat | | Mujeeb Ur Rahman | Odean Smith |
| Gold | | Andrew Tye | Sikandar Raza Liam Dawson | Akeal Hosein | Danish Aziz Arshad Iqbal | Ahsan Ali |
| Silver | Abrar Ahmed Sohaib Maqsood Rumman Raees | Tayyab Tahir Muhammad Akhlaq | Dilbar Hussain Mirza Tahir Baig Ahmed Daniyal | Usama Mir Usman Khan Sameen Gul Anwar Ali Mohammad Sarwar | Saim Ayub Usman Qadir | Umaid Asif Muhammad Zahid |
| Emerging | Zeeshan Zameer Hassan Nawaz | Irfan Khan | Shawaiz Irfan | | Sufiyan Muqeem Haseebullah Khan | Abdul Bangalzai Aimal Khan |
| Supplementary | Moeen Ali Mubasir Khan | Tabraiz Shamsi Mohammad Umar | Jordan Cox Jalat Khan | Adil Rashid Arafat Minhas | James Neesham Khurram Shahzad | Martin Guptill Omair Yousuf |
* ↑ Right To Match card (RTM): Player was picked by another franchise in the draft but their franchise from the previous season used their Right To Match card to bring them back in their squad.

## Replacements

A replacement player draft took place through a conference call on 24 January 2023, in which franchises were also allowed to select two supplementary players. Peshawar had reserved their pick in the first supplementary round and named Khurram Shahzad as their pick. Lahore and Peshawar reserved their picks in the second supplementary round. Islamabad, Multan, Peshawar and Quetta reserved picks in the replacement draft. Further replacements were announced on 7 February 2023.
| Class | IU | KK | LQ | MS | PZ | QG |
| Supplementary | Tom Curran Zafar Gohar | Ben Cutting Muhammad Musa | Ahsan Hafeez | Kieron Pollard Amad Butt | Haris Sohail Shakib Al Hasan | Qais Ahmad Saud Shakeel Yasir Khan |
* ↑ Qais Ahmed was later changed to a replacement pick for Wanindu Hasaranga.
| Player | Team | Replaced with | Availability | Reason |
| Rashid Khan | LQ | Sam Billings | Partial | National duty |
| Rovman Powell | PZ | Richard Gleeson | Partial | National duty |
| Rahmanullah Gurbaz | IU | Gus Atkinson | Partial | National duty |
| Alex Hales | IU | Tymal Mills | Partial | National duty |
| Mujeeb Ur Rahman | PZ | Peter Hatzoglou | Partial | National duty |
| Naveen-ul-Haq | QG | Nuwan Thushara | Partial | National duty |
| Jordan Cox | LQ | Kusal Mendis | Partial | National duty |
| Harry Brook | LQ | Shane Dadswell | Full | National duty |
| Adil Rashid | MS | Wayne Parnell | Full | National duty |
| David Miller | MS | Izharulhaq Naveed Johnson Charles | Partial | National duty |
| Odean Smith | QG | Dwaine Pretorius | Partial | National duty |
| Jason Roy | QG | Will Jacks Najibullah Zadran | Partial | National duty |
| Tabraiz Shamsi | KK | Faisal Akram | Partial | National duty |
| Moeen Ali | IU | Rassie van der Dussen | Partial | National duty |
| James Vince | KK | Adam Rossington | Partial | National duty |
| Kusal Mendis | LQ | Shai Hope | Full | NOC issue |
| Ahsan Ali | QG | Mohammad Hafeez | Full | Injury |
| Shahnawaz Dahani | MS | Mohammad Ilyas | Full | Injury |
| Wayne Parnell | MS | Carlos Brathwaite | Full | Injury |
| Sherfane Rutherford | PZ | Dasun Shanaka | Full | Injury |
| Mir Hamza | KK | Akif Javed | Full | Injury |
| Shakib Al Hasan | PZ | Azmatullah Omarzai | Partial | Family emergency |
| Wanindu Hasaranga | QG | Qais Ahmad | Full | NOC issue |
| Sarfaraz Ahmed | QG | Bismillah Khan | Partial | Injury |
| Josh Little | MS | Sheldon Cottrell | Full | Injury |