# 2022 Kashmir Premier League players draft

The players draft for the 2022 Kashmir Premier League took place on 21 July 2022. The players were divided into 7 categories: Icon, Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver, Emerging and Kashmiri. Each team chose 2 platinum players, 2 diamond players, 2 gold players, 4 silver players, 2 emerging players and 5 Kashmiri players. The 2022 KPL did not feature foreign players.

## Key

| Symbol | Meaning |
| † | Player was traded |
| ♠ | Player was part of the base squad of their team |

## Background

The franchises all announced their icon players prior to the draft. Kamran Akmal was announced as Bagh Stallions’ icon player. Sharjeel Khan was announced as Jammu Janbaz’s icon player. Former Pakistani captain, Sarfaraz Ahmed, was announced as Kotli Lions’ captain. Mirpur Royals retained Shoaib Malik as their icon player. Muzaffarabad Tigers also retained Mohammad Hafeez as their icon player. Overseas Warriors selected Asad Shafiq as their icon player. Rawalakot Hawks announced that Mohammad Amir would be their icon player. The PCB was giving permission to draft foreign players who retired at least 5 years ago but the franchises were not interested in drafting them. The KPL president, Arif Malik, confirmed that the centrally contracted players chosen for the Netherlands tour would not participate in the KPL but they were requesting if the remaining contracted players could play. The PCB later allowed Fawad Alam, Azhar Ali, Abid Ali, Nauman Ali, Haseebullah, Mohammad Huraira and Ali Usman to participate in the tournament. Later, Sarfaraz Ahmed was also granted permission to play in the KPL. Khurram Manzoor was announced as Kotli Lions’ icon player.

## Base squads

Each franchise released a “Base Squad” prior to the draft. These were the 4-5 players that each franchise was retaining. Muzaffarabad Tigers and Bagh Stallions traded Sohaib Maqsood for Iftikhar Ahmed in their base squads.
| Bagh Stallions | Jammu Janbaz | Kotli Lions | Mirpur Royals | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Overseas Warriors | Rawalakot Hawks |
| Kamran Akmal (Icon) Sohaib Maqsood† (Platinum) Aamer Yamin (Diamond) Mohammad Imran (Gold) | Sharjeel Khan (Icon) Shahid Afridi (Platinum) Sahibzada Farhan (Diamond) Umar Akmal (Diamond) Mehran Mumtaz (Kashmiri) | Khurram Manzoor (Icon) Ahsan Ali (Diamond) Khurram Shahzad (Diamond) Irfanullah Shah (Gold) Khalid Usman (Gold) | Shoaib Malik (Icon) Salman Irshad (Diamond) Muhammad Akhlaq (Gold) Abrar Ahmed (Gold) | Mohammad Hafeez (Icon) Iftikhar Ahmed† (Platinum) Anwar Ali (Diamond) Zeeshan Ashraf (Gold) Arshad Iqbal (Gold) | Asad Shafiq (Icon) Azam Khan (Platinum) Kamran Ghulam (Platinum) Sohail Khan (Diamond) | Mohammad Amir (Icon) Ahmed Shehzad (Platinum) Hussain Talat (Platinum) Zaman Khan (Diamond) Asif Afridi (Diamond) |

## Picks

Every team had a “Wild Card” which allowed them to move a player’s category up by one or two categories. Each team also had a “Right to Match” card which allowed them to change a player’s category to the one they are picked in instead of the one they were listed in.
| Category | Pick No. | Team | Player |
| Platinum | 1 | Jammu Janbaz | Faheem Ashraf |
| Platinum | 2 | Rawalakot Hawks | Ahmed Shehzad |
| Platinum | 3 | Mirpur Royals | Imad Wasim |
| Platinum | 4 | Overseas Warriors | Azam Khan |
| Platinum | 5 | Bagh Stallions | Rumman Raees |
| Platinum | 6 | Kotli Lions | Danish Aziz |
| Platinum | 7 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Sohail Tanvir |
| Platinum | 8 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Iftikhar Ahmed |
| Platinum | 9 | Kotli Lions | Sarfaraz Ahmed |
| Platinum | 10 | Bagh Stallions | Sohaib Maqsood |
| Platinum | 11 | Overseas Warriors | Kamran Ghulam |
| Platinum | 12 | Mirpur Royals | Haris Sohail |
| Platinum | 13 | Rawalakot Hawks | Hussain Talat |
| Platinum | 14 | Jammu Janbaz | Shahid Afridi |
| Diamond | 1 | Bagh Stallions | Umar Amin |
| Diamond | 2 | Kotli Lions | Ahsan Ali |
| Diamond | 3 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Haseebullah Khan |
| Diamond | 4 | Jammu Janbaz | Umar Akmal |
| Diamond | 5 | Rawalakot Hawks | Asif Afridi |
| Diamond | 6 | Mirpur Royals | Ali Imran |
| Diamond | 7 | Overseas Warriors | Imran Randhawa |
| Diamond | 8 | Overseas Warriors | Sohail Khan |
| Diamond | 9 | Mirpur Royals | Salman Irshad |
| Diamond | 10 | Rawalakot Hawks | Zaman Khan |
| Diamond | 11 | Jammu Janbaz | Sahibzada Farhan |
| Diamond | 12 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Anwar Ali |
| Diamond | 13 | Kotli Lions | Khurram Shehzad |
| Diamond | 14 | Bagh Stallions | Aamer Yamin |
| Gold | 1 | Kotli Lions | Irfanullah Shah |
| Gold | 2 | Overseas Warriors | Umaid Asif |
| Gold | 3 | Bagh Stallions | Kashif Bhatti |
| Gold | 4 | Jammu Janbaz | Usama Mir |
| Gold | 5 | Mirpur Royals | Abrar Ahmed |
| Gold | 6 | Rawalakot Hawks | Amad Butt |
| Gold | 7 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Zeeshan Ashraf |
| Gold | 8 | Mirpur Royals | Muhammad Akhlaq |
| Gold | 9 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Arshad Iqbal |
| Gold | 10 | Overseas Warriors | Saif Badar |
| Gold | 11 | Bagh Stallions | Mohammad Imran |
| Gold | 12 | Rawalakot Hawks | Bismillah Khan |
| Gold | 13 | Jammu Janbaz | Akif Javed |
| Gold | 14 | Kotli Lions | Khalid Usman |
| Silver | 1 | Rawalakot Hawks | Zeeshan Malik |
| Silver | 2 | Jammu Janbaz | Imran Khan |
| Silver | 3 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Mir Hamza |
| Silver | 4 | Kotli Lions | Mushtaq Kalhoro |
| Silver | 5 | Bagh Stallions | Mohammad Sarwar |
| Silver | 6 | Mirpur Royals | Kashif Ali |
| Silver | 7 | Overseas Warriors | Adil Amin |
| Silver | 8 | Rawalakot Hawks | Musadiq Ahmed |
| Silver | 9 | Jammu Janbaz | Umar Siddiq |
| Silver | 10 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Ahmed Safi Abdullah |
| Silver | 11 | Kotli Lions | Hassan Khan |
| Silver | 12 | Bagh Stallions | Sharoon Siraj |
| Silver | 13 | Mirpur Royals | Hamza Arshad |
| Silver | 14 | Overseas Warriors | Bilal Asif |
| Silver | 15 | Mirpur Royals | Zubair Lodhi |
| Silver | 16 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Salman Fayyaz |
| Silver | 17 | Overseas Warriors | Ali Shafiq |
| Silver | 18 | Bagh Stallions | Ahmed Jamal |
| Silver | 19 | Rawalakot Hawks | Faisal Akram |
| Silver | 20 | Jammu Janbaz | Ahmed Khan |
| Silver | 21 | Kotli Lions | Hanif Azad |
| Silver | 22 | Kotli Lions | Hasan Mohsin |
| Silver | 23 | Overseas Warriors | Muhammad Shehzad |
| Silver | 24 | Bagh Stallions | Atizaz Habib Khan |
| Silver | 25 | Jammu Janbaz | Shahzab |
| Silver | 26 | Mirpur Royals | Zaid Alam |
| Silver | 27 | Rawalakot Hawks | Ammad Alam |
| Silver | 28 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Taimoor Sultan |
| Emerging | 1 | Overseas Warriors | Umer Zeeshan |
| Emerging | 2 | Mirpur Royals | Hassan Nawaz |
| Emerging | 3 | Rawalakot Hawks | Saeedullah |
| Emerging | 4 | Jammu Janbaz | Hamza Shah Afridi |
| Emerging | 5 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Aaqib Liaquat |
| Emerging | 6 | Kotli Lions | Imran Shah |
| Emerging | 7 | Bagh Stallions | Maaz Khan |
| Emerging | 8 | Bagh Stallions | Sajjad Ali |
| Emerging | 9 | Kotli Lions | Irfan Ali Qasmi |
| Emerging | 10 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Amir Khan |
| Emerging | 11 | Jammu Janbaz | Samiullah Afridi |
| Emerging | 12 | Rawalakot Hawks | Ihsanullah |
| Emerging | 13 | Mirpur Royals | Ali Razzaq |
| Emerging | 14 | Overseas Warriors | Khawaja Muhammad |
| Kashmiri | 1 | Overseas Warriors | Farhan Shafiq |
| Kashmiri | 2 | Mirpur Royals | Shadab Majeed |
| Kashmiri | 3 | Rawalakot Hawks | Zain-ul-Hassan |
| Kashmiri | 4 | Jammu Janbaz | Mehran Mumtaz |
| Kashmiri | 5 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Aqib Ilyas |
| Kashmiri | 6 | Kotli Lions | Zayyan Khan |
| Kashmiri | 7 | Bagh Stallions | Hasan Raza |
| Kashmiri | 8 | Kotli Lions | Basit Ali |
| Kashmiri | 9 | Jammu Janbaz | Naqash Basharat |
| Kashmiri | 10 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Saad Bin Zafar |
| Kashmiri | 11 | Bagh Stallions | Daniyal Allah Ditta |
| Kashmiri | 12 | Mirpur Royals | Sufyan Moqim |
| Kashmiri | 13 | Overseas Warriors | Hannan Ahmed |
| Kashmiri | 14 | Rawalakot Hawks | Saif Ali Zaib |
| Kashmiri | 15 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Inzamam-ul-Haq |
| Kashmiri | 16 | Mirpur Royals | Shan Khan |
| Kashmiri | 17 | Jammu Janbaz | Faisal Altaf |
| Kashmiri | 18 | Overseas Warriors | Syed Hashim Ali |
| Kashmiri | 19 | Rawalakot Hawks | Atif Sheikh |
| Kashmiri | 20 | Kotli Lions | Naveed Malik |
| Kashmiri | 21 | Bagh Stallions | Aamir Shehzad |
| Kashmiri | 22 | Jammu Janbaz | Najam Naseer Kiyani |
| Kashmiri | 23 | Mirpur Royals | Umar Hayat |
| Kashmiri | 24 | Bagh Stallions | Arsalan Arif |
| Kashmiri | 25 | Rawalakot Hawks | Raja Farhan Khan |
| Kashmiri | 26 | Overseas Warriors | Saad Asif |
| Kashmiri | 27 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Usman Maroof |
| Kashmiri | 28 | Kotli Lions | Mujtaba Ghayas |
| Kashmiri | 29 | Mirpur Royals | Faizan Saleem |
| Kashmiri | 30 | Kotli Lions | Nadeem Khalil |
| Kashmiri | 31 | Bagh Stallions | Raja Farhan |
| Kashmiri | 32 | Overseas Warriors | Malik Nisar |
| Kashmiri | 33 | Rawalakot Hawks | Kashif Ali |
| Kashmiri | 34 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Usama Fazal |
| Kashmiri | 35 | Jammu Janbaz | Muhammad Shehzad |

### Supplementary draft

A supplementary draft was also held. Each team was allowed to select two supplementary players. The following are the picks:
| Team | Player |
| Bagh Stallions | Ali Majid Abdul Bangalzai |
| Jammu Janbaz | Azaz Khan Akash Afridi |
| Kotli Lions | Abdul Rehman |
| Mirpur Royals | Yasir Shah Raza-ul-Mustafa |
| Muzaffarabad Tigers | Ahmed Daniyal Ameer Hamza |
| Overseas Warriors | Muhammad Sameer Shayan Raza |
| Rawalakot Hawks | Sohail Akhtar Sameen Gul |

## Draft summary

| Category | Bagh Stallions | Jammu Janbaz | Kotli Lions | Mirpur Royals | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Overseas Warriors | Rawalakot Hawks |
| Icon | Kamran Akmal | Sharjeel Khan | Khurram Manzoor | Shoaib Malik | Mohammad Hafeez | Asad Shafiq | Mohammad Amir |
| Platinum | Rumman Raees Sohaib Maqsood | Faheem Ashraf Shahid Afridi | Danish Aziz Sarfaraz Ahmed | Haris Sohail Imad Wasim | Iftikhar Ahmed Sohail Tanvir | Azam Khan Kamran Ghulam | Ahmed Shehzad Hussain Talat |
| Diamond | Aamer Yamin Umar Amin | Sahibzada Farhan Umar Akmal | Ahsan Ali Khurram Shehzad | Ali Imran Salman Irshad | Anwar Ali Haseebullah Khan | Mohammad Imran Sohail Khan | Zaman Khan Asif Afridi |
| Gold | Mohammad Imran Kashif Bhatti | Akif Javed Usama Mir | Irfanullah Shah Khalid Usman | Muhammad Akhlaq Abrar Ahmed | Arshad Iqbal Zeeshan Ashraf | Saif Badar Umaid Asif | Amad Butt Bismillah Khan |
| Silver | Ahmed Jamal Atizaz Habib Khan Mohammad Sarwar Sharoon Siraj | Ahmed Khan Imran Khan Shahzab Umar Siddiq | Hanif Azad Hassan Khan Hasan Mohsin Mushtaq Kalhoro | Hamza Arshad Kashif Ali Zaid Alam Zubair Lodhi | Ahmed Safi Abdullah Mir Hamza Salman Fayyaz Taimoor Sultan | Adil Amin Ali Shafiq Bilal Asif Muhammad Shehzad | Ammad Alam Faisal Akram Musadiq Ahmed Zeeshan Malik |
| Emerging | Maaz Khan Sajjad Ali | Hamza Shah Afridi Samiullah | Imran Shah Irfan Ali Qasmi | Ali Razzaq Hassan Nawaz | Aaqib Liaquat Amir Khan | Khawaja Muhammad Umer Zeeshan | Saeedullah Ihsanullah |
| Kashmiri | Amir Shehzad Arsalan Arif Danyal Allah Ditta Hasan Raza Raja Farhan | Faisal Altaf Mehran Mumtaz Mohammad Shehzad Naqash Basharat Najam Naseer Kiyani | Basit Ali Mujtaba Ghayas Nadeem Khalil Naveed Malik Zayyan Khan | Faizan Saleem Shadab Majeed Shan Khan Sufyan Moqeem Umar Hayat | Aqib Ilyas Inzamam-ul-Haq Osama Fazil Saad Bin Zafar Usman Maroof | Farhan Shafiq Hanan Ahmed Hashim Ali Malik Nisar Saad Asif | Atif Sheikh Kashif Ali Raja Farhan Khan Saif Zaib Zain-ul-Hassan |
| Supplementary | Ali Majid Abdul Bangalzai | Azaz Khan Akash Afridi | Abdul Rehman | Yasir Shah Raza-ul-Mustafa | Ahmed Daniyal Ameer Hamza | Muhammad Sameer Shayan Raza | Sohail Akhtar Sameen Gul |

## Post-draft signings

| Player | Team |
| Omair Yousuf | Kotli Lions |
| Mirwais Khan | Kotli Lions |
| Arsalan Mehzood | Mirpur Royals |
| Izhar-ul-Haq | Mirpur Royals |
| Nosherwan Ibrahim | Overseas Warriors |

### Replacements

| Player | Team | Replaced with |
| Ahmed Jamal | Bagh Stallions | Aamer Jamal |
| Raja Farhan Khan | Bagh Stallions | Awais Akram |
| Atif Sheikh | Rawalakot Hawks | Babar Khaliq |
| Kashif Ali | Rawalakot Hawks | Khawaja Muhammad Bilal |
| Saif Zaib | Rawalakot Hawks | Rohaan Qadri |
| Zain-ul-Hassan | Rawalakot Hawks | Rohail Nazir |