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Direct signing - Marnus Labuschagne (5.88 crore)

Retained - Saim Ayub (12.6 crore), Akif Javed (1.96 crore), Maaz Sadaqat, Usman Khan (4.62 crore)

Bought – Mohammad Ali (2.15 crore), Kusal Perera (3.1 crore), Muhammad Irfan Khan (2.9 crore), Hassan Khan (1.85 crores), Shayan Jahangir (60 lacs), Ottniel Baartman (1.1 crores), Hammad Azam (60 lacs), Riley Meredith (4.2 crores), Sharjeel Khan (60 lacs), Asif Mehmood (60 lacs), Hunain Shah (60 lacs), Rizwan Mehmood (60 lacs), Saad Ali (60 lacs), Tayyab Arif (60 lacs)
 
Plenty of batting

Bowlers not too impressive

Aakif
Baartman
Hassan Khan
Meredith
Hunain Shah


These guys will struggle in many games with the ball
 
Rana said:
Plenty of batting

Bowlers not too impressive

Aakif
Baartman
Hassan Khan
Meredith
Hunain Shah


These guys will struggle in many games with the ball
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Baartman was the leading wicket-taker in SA20. He's good. Besides him its a rubbish pace-bowling attack
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Who the heck picks Marnus Labuschagne in T20?
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I mentioned it before but I can't get over giving a contract to Hammad Azam. He wouldn't even get picked if he was a local player!

The whole world to pick from and they pick a player who left Pakistan because he couldn't get picked!
 
DeadlyVenom said:
I mentioned it before but I can't get over giving a contract to Hammad Azam. He wouldn't even get picked if he was a local player!

The whole world to pick from and they pick a player who left Pakistan because he couldn't get picked!
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Rana said:
Stupid decision

They were better off picking Fraser McGurk direct signing
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This is such a bad and unbalanced squad barring some good players like Saim, Maaz, Baartman and Usman, who is a beast in PSL.

Hammad Azam surely has to be one of the all-time worst PSL picks.
 
Saim
Usman (k)
Maaz
Labu (os)
Kushal (os)
Niazi
Hassan
Asif/Saad/Rizwan
Akif
Riley (os)
Bartman (os)

I think their strength is that Maaz is still an emerging player so that quota is fulfilled. Can be a decent side
 
Squad looks weak along with its generic team logo. I mean if one uses AI, then use it creatively, this logo is a novice AI work tbh.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
This is such a bad and unbalanced squad barring some good players like Saim, Maaz, Baartman and Usman, who is a beast in PSL.

Hammad Azam surely has to be one of the all-time worst PSL picks.
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Hammad, Shayan, Asif, Saad, Sharjeel and Saad are all Chicago players. Those aren’t performance or stats based picks they’ve simply picked from their US pool. But yes from a HK perspective those picks don’t make much sense especially if the likes of Hammad and Asif count as foreign picks.
 
Best XI

1. Saim
2. Maaz
3. Usman (WK)
4. Labuschagne *
5. Niazi
6. K Parera
7. Hassan *
8. Akif
9. Riley *
10. Hunain (E)
11. Baartman *
 
Katwalindian said:
Players like brendon mcmullan, James coles and Jordan Hermann are available and they went for hammed azam...
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I am glad you brought up James Coles because I am honestly shocked that no one picked him. Mark my words, he will be a name for England in the future. Not only can he bat down the order at a very high strike-rate, he can also bowl left-arm spin with good control. And you can rely on him in the field too. A fantastic talent that PSL owners were too stupid to pick in their team.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
I am glad you brought up James Coles because I am honestly shocked that no one picked him. Mark my words, he will be a name for England in the future. Not only can he bat down the order at a very high strike-rate, he can also bowl left-arm spin with good control. And you can rely on him in the field too. A fantastic talent that PSL owners were too stupid to pick in their team.
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Jordan Hermann will be bigger star........ keshav mehraj and Jason Smith are currently playing t20 world cup and they are also unpicked......
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
I am glad you brought up James Coles because I am honestly shocked that no one picked him. Mark my words, he will be a name for England in the future. Not only can he bat down the order at a very high strike-rate, he can also bowl left-arm spin with good control. And you can rely on him in the field too. A fantastic talent that PSL owners were too stupid to pick in their team.
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These all are literally steals at 60 lac each.....
 
Katwalindian said:
Jordan Hermann will be bigger star........ keshav mehraj and Jason Smith are currently playing t20 world cup and they are also unpicked......
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Jordan Hermann for sure will be an all-format star for South Africa. But James Coles will be a box-office caliber star for England in white-ball. He has something about him. I personally value a player like Hermann more but someone like Coles will sell tickets
 
Weirdest owner that is fighting hard for the approval of others. The team has a stupid name altogether, and the owner looks like a crack head.

Ended up picking USA players just for approval ratings.

Maaz was a good pick
 
Rana said:
Plenty of batting

Bowlers not too impressive

Aakif
Baartman
Hassan Khan
Meredith
Hunain Shah


These guys will struggle in many games with the ball
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Naa, i thought Akif Javed was a good pick.

Akif isnt valued because of his runup, but he delivers and should be playing for Pakistan as a 2nd or 3rd pacer.
 
Stupid direct signing. Pakistani obsession with anything Australian is perplexing.

And Hammad Azam was a blunder as well. He did not get selected for the USA squad for the world cup. And he used to warm the bench when he was a local player in initial PSL seasons.

Kusal Perera is also out of form. P Nissanka from the same country would have been better (not sure if he was an option).

However, batting is generally good. Great retentions.

Hope Saim is made the captain
 
Someone must have been reading the timeless thread about American Pakistanis
What a disastrous auction for Hyderabad,squandered any chance they ever had with it geeks and the new run out king
 
Overall it's a meh team that will be extremely top order reliant with a weak bowling unit. I don't even think they have a single leg spinner in the squad which is shocking for any T20 build these days. They ended up drafting so many batters too and have few backup options and there is zero specialist spinner, let alone leg spin.

Team looks like Peshawar of a couple of years ago with even less balance with their bowling.
Regardless, Saim & Maaz together will be an exciting watch.
 
Major said:
Naa, i thought Akif Javed was a good pick.

Akif isnt valued because of his runup, but he delivers and should be playing for Pakistan as a 2nd or 3rd pacer.
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Aakif has days when he can go for 60 in 3 overs because of not getting his run up in rhythm

Yeah he’s world class when he’s on song though.
 
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