# 2021 Kashmir Premier League players draft

The players draft for the 2021 Kashmir Premier League took place on 3 July 2021 at the Tulip Banquet Hall in Islamabad. A total of 413 players signed up for the KPL. The players were divided into 7 categories: Icon, Overseas, Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver and Emerging. The emerging category was further divided into Overseas Kashmiris, Local Kashmiris and Non-Kashmiris. Each team chose 1 Icon player, 1 Overseas player, 1 Platinum player, 2 Diamond players, 2 Gold players, 3 Silver players and 5 Emerging players. Many people attended the draft including Chairman of the Kashmir Committee Shehryar Khan Afridi, Senator Faisal Javed, President of the KPL: Arif Malik and CEO of the KPL: Chaudhary Shahzad Akhtar.

## Players signed up per country

| Country | Number of Players |
| Pakistan | 364 |
| England | 25 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 |
| South Africa | 3 |
| Australia | 2 |
| Canada | 2 |
| Bahrain | 1 |
| Germany | 1 |
| Hong Kong | 1 |
| Italy | 1 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 |
| Turkey | 1 |
| United States | 1 |
| West Indies | 1 |
| Total | 413 |

## Draft picks

Herschelle Gibbs was the first player to be picked in the draft. Shan Masood was the first non-foreign player to be picked in the draft. The icon players had already been signed prior to the draft.
| Category | Pick No. | Team | Nationality | Name |
| Overseas | 1 | Overseas Warriors | South Africa | Herschelle Gibbs |
| Overseas | 2 | Bagh Stallions | England | Phil Mustard |
| Overseas | 3 | Rawalakot Hawks | England | Matt Prior |
| Overseas | 4 | Mirpur Royals | England | Owais Shah |
| Overseas | 5 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Sri Lanka | Tillakaratne Dilshan |
| Overseas | 6 | Kotli Lions | England | Monty Panesar |
| Platinum | 1 | Bagh Stallions | Pakistan | Shan Masood |
| Platinum | 2 | Kotli Lions | Pakistan | Kamran Akmal |
| Platinum | 3 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Pakistan | Sohail Tanvir |
| Platinum | 4 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Sharjeel Khan |
| Platinum | 5 | Overseas Warriors | Pakistan | Haider Ali |
| Platinum | 6 | Rawalakot Hawks | Pakistan | Mohammad Hasnain |
| Diamond | 1 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Pakistan | Sohaib Maqsood |
| Diamond | 2 | Kotli Lions | Pakistan | Asif Ali |
| Diamond | 3 | Bagh Stallions | Pakistan | Iftikhar Ahmed |
| Diamond | 4 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Khushdil Shah |
| Diamond | 5 | Rawalakot Hawks | Pakistan | Hussain Talat |
| Diamond | 6 | Overseas Warriors | Pakistan | Sohail Khan |
| Diamond | 7 | Rawalakot Hawks | Pakistan | Ahmed Shehzad |
| Diamond | 8 | Overseas Warriors | Pakistan | Azam Khan |
| Diamond | 9 | Kotli Lions | Pakistan | Usman Qadir |
| Diamond | 10 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Pakistan | Mohammad Wasim |
| Diamond | 11 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Mohammad Irfan |
| Diamond | 12 | Bagh Stallions | Pakistan | Umaid Asif |
| Gold | 1 | Overseas Warriors | Pakistan | Muhammad Musa |
| Gold | 2 | Rawalakot Hawks | Pakistan | Danish Aziz |
| Gold | 3 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Pakistan | Arshad Iqbal |
| Gold | 4 | Bagh Stallions | Pakistan | Rohail Nazir |
| Gold | 5 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Salman Irshad |
| Gold | 6 | Kotli Lions | Pakistan | Imran Khan |
| Gold | 7 | Rawalakot Hawks | Pakistan | Waqas Maqsood |
| Gold | 8 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Pakistan | Zeeshan Ashraf |
| Gold | 9 | Bagh Stallions | Pakistan | Mohammad Ilyas |
| Gold | 10 | Kotli Lions | Pakistan | Akif Javed |
| Gold | 11 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Amad Butt |
| Gold | 12 | Overseas Warriors | Pakistan | Haris Sohail |
| Silver | 1 | Rawalakot Hawks | Pakistan | Zafar Gohar |
| Silver | 2 | Kotli Lions | Pakistan | Khalid Usman |
| Silver | 3 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Pakistan | Sohail Akhtar |
| Silver | 4 | Overseas Warriors | Pakistan | Qasim Akram |
| Silver | 5 | Bagh Stallions | Pakistan | Mohammad Imran |
| Silver | 6 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Mukhtar Ahmed |
| Silver | 7 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Pakistan | Usama Mir |
| Silver | 8 | Overseas Warriors | Pakistan | Hammad Azam |
| Silver | 9 | Kotli Lions | Pakistan | Irfanullah Shah |
| Silver | 10 | Bagh Stallions | Pakistan | Zeeshan Malik |
| Silver | 11 | Rawalakot Hawks | Pakistan | Bismillah Khan |
| Silver | 12 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Abrar Ahmed |
| Silver | 13 | Rawalakot Hawks | Pakistan | Mohammad Imran Randhawa |
| Silver | 14 | Kotli Lions | Pakistan | Junaid Ali |
| Silver | 15 | Overseas Warriors | Pakistan | Abbas Afridi |
| Silver | 16 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Pakistan | Anwar Ali |
| Silver | 17 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Muhammad Akhlaq |
| Silver | 18 | Bagh Stallions | Pakistan | Usman Mughal |
| Emerging | 1 | Kotli Lions | United States | Abdullah Syed |
| Emerging | 2 | Bagh Stallions | Pakistan | Zeeshan Zameer |
| Emerging | 3 | Rawalakot Hawks | England | Kashif Ali |
| Emerging | 4 | Overseas Warriors | Pakistan | Rashid Naseer |
| Emerging | 5 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Pakistan | Arsalan Arif |
| Emerging | 6 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Shadab Majeed |
| Emerging | 7 | Bagh Stallions | England | Furqan Shafique |
| Emerging | 8 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Danyal Allah Ditta |
| Emerging | 9 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Pakistan | Tahir Hussain |
| Emerging | 10 | Overseas Warriors | England | Uthman Ali Khan |
| Emerging | 11 | Kotli Lions | Pakistan | Syed Hashim Ali |
| Emerging | 12 | Rawalakot Hawks | United Arab Emirates | Faisal Altaf |
| Emerging | 13 | Kotli Lions | Pakistan | Hasan Raza |
| Emerging | 14 | Bagh Stallions | Pakistan | Sufyan Moqeem |
| Emerging | 15 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Mohammad Taha |
| Emerging | 16 | Rawalakot Hawks | Pakistan | Zaman Khan |
| Emerging | 17 | Overseas Warriors | Pakistan | Naveed Malik |
| Emerging | 18 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Pakistan | Inzamam-ul-Haq |
| Emerging | 19 | Overseas Warriors | Pakistan | Waleed Ahmed |
| Emerging | 20 | Kotli Lions | Pakistan | Yasir Jan |
| Emerging | 21 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Ibtesam-ul-Haq |
| Emerging | 22 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | England | Usman Arshad |
| Emerging | 23 | Rawalakot Hawks | Pakistan | Samiullah Afridi |
| Emerging | 24 | Bagh Stallions | Pakistan | Mohammad Junaid |
| Emerging | 25 | Kotli Lions | Pakistan | Abdul Rehman |
| Emerging | 26 | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Pakistan | Taimoor Sultan |
| Emerging | 27 | Rawalakot Hawks | Pakistan | Shahid Ilyas |
| Emerging | 28 | Bagh Stallions | Pakistan | Aamir Sohail |
| Emerging | 29 | Mirpur Royals | Pakistan | Ammad Alam |
| Emerging | 30 | Overseas Warriors | Pakistan | Raza-ul-Mustafa |

## Draft summary

The following is the summary of the teams.
| Category | Bagh Stallions | Kotli Lions | Mirpur Royals | Muzaffarabad Tigers | Overseas Warriors | Rawalakot Hawks |
| Icon | Shadab Khan | Fakhar Zaman | Shoaib Malik | Mohammad Hafeez | Imad Wasim | Shahid Afridi |
| Overseas | Phil Mustard | Monty Panesar | Owais Shah | Tillakaratne Dilshan | Herschelle Gibbs | Matt Prior |
| Platinum | Shan Masood | Kamran Akmal | Sharjeel Khan | Sohail Tanvir | Haider Ali | Mohammad Hasnain |
| Diamond | Iftikhar Ahmed Umaid Asif | Asif Ali Usman Qadir | Khushdil Shah Mohammad Irfan | Mohammad Wasim Sohaib Maqsood | Azam Khan Sohail Khan | Ahmed Shehzad Hussain Talat |
| Gold | Mohammad Ilyas Rohail Nazir | Akif Javed Imran Khan | Amad Butt Salman Irshad | Arshad Iqbal Zeeshan Ashraf | Haris Sohail Muhammad Musa | Sahibzada Farhan Danish Aziz |
| Silver | Mohammad Imran Zeeshan Malik Usman Mughal | Irfanullah Shah Junaid Ali Khalid Usman | Abrar Ahmed Muhammad Akhlaq Mukhtar Ahmed | Anwar Ali Sohail Akhtar Usama Mir | Asif Afridi Nasir Nawaz Qasim Akram | Mohammad Imran Randhawa Mohammad Irfan Zafar Gohar |
| Emerging | Aamir Sohail Furqan Shafique Mohammad Junaid Sufyan Moqeem Zeeshan Zameer | Abdul Rehman Abdullah Syed Hasan Raza Syed Hashim Ali Yasir Jan | Ammad Alam Danyal Allah Ditta Ibtesam-ul-Haq Mohammad Taha Shadab Majeed | Arsalan Arif Inzamam-ul-Haq Taimoor Sultan Tahir Hussain Usman Arshad | Naveed Malik Rashid Naseer Raza-ul-Mustafa Uthman Ali Khan Waleed Ahmed | Faisal Altaf Kashif Ali Samiullah Afridi Shahid Ilyas Zaman Khan |

## Post draft signings

| Players | Pre-Draft Category |
| Asad Shafiq | Platinum |
| Usman Shinwari | Platinum |
| Aamer Yamin | Gold |
| Agha Salman | Gold |
| Kamran Ghulam | Gold |
| Sameen Gul | Gold |
| Umar Amin | Gold |
| Adil Amin | Silver |
| Ahsan Ali | Silver |
| Asif Afridi | Silver |
| Hasan Khan | Silver |
| Kashif Bhatti | Silver |
| Khurram Shahzad | Silver |
| Mohammad Haris | Silver |
| Saif Badar | Silver |
| Basit Ali | Emerging |
| Faizan Saleem | Emerging |
| Malik Nisar | Emerging |
| Mujtaba Ghayyas | Emerging |
| Nadeem Khalil | Emerging |
| Najeebullah Afridi | Emerging |
| Raja Farhan Khan | Emerging |
| Raja Shahzad | Emerging |
| Usman Yousuf | Emerging |