I think players need to fit in to a team’s requirement. Lahore needed a WK and Shahwaiz fitted in to their requirement. I couldn’t see any team needing an opener before the beginning of emerging players round. So unfortunately Basit wasn’t picked.
PSL just needs a few more teams. Six teams are really not enough, especially if you want to base your national teams selection on PSL performance.
Openers are the least in demand position in T20's at this point considering how overloaded the position is nowadays and a lot of the good batsmen we saw in PJL were openers.
Middle order batsmen from PJL were picked and a pacer.