The PSL 2021 Player Draft Thread (January 10)

[TeymurBlake]

MS pick is Sohail Khan. WHAAAAATT!

 

[waheed_sofi]

QG so far
Gayle
Delport
Bamton
Shinwari

 

[Asif321]

Has the people's champion Rizwan been picked yet?

I guess Multan will take him

 

[Ryw]

HUM KISI KO MOON DIKHANY K QABIL NAHI RAHAY

Sohail Khan goes to Multan Sultan...

 

[TeymurBlake]

PZ pick is Umaid Asif. Reliable player.

 

[Asif321]

Umaid Asif back to Zalmi

 

[Titan24]

Rizwan, Abdullah Shafique and Iftikhar are surprised exclusions till now

 

[Ryw]

Interestingly Awais Zia Iftikhar uncle from Gold still unpicked...

 

[waheed_sofi]

QG so far
Gayle
Delport
Bamton
Shinwari

Moin was saying they will go far experience.
Might as well go Irfan.
Mediocre and Grandpa XI

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Disappointed with IU's picks so far.

Should go for a wicketkeeper and Iftikhar.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Interestingly Awais Zia Iftikhar uncle from Gold still unpicked...

Awais Zia is a terrible player.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Rizwan, Abdullah Shafique and Iftikhar are surprised exclusions till now

Yes very surprising omissions.

 

[Asif321]

Rohail Nazir to IU

 

[TeymurBlake]

IU pick is Rohail Nazir. Good pick hopefully plays.

 

[Titan24]

Rohail is a solid pick by IU.

 

[Rana]

Rohail is the future.

 

[waheed_sofi]

Umaid asif to pz.
What Hasan replaced with asif

 

[Asif321]

Who is Tom abel

 

[TeymurBlake]

LQ pick is Tom Abell. A decent pick seems more for the bench strength tbh.

 

[Hasan123]

If Rohail doesn’t play it would be a waste of a pick. So hopefully he is going to play.

 

[Rana]

Lahore Qalandars anthem easily the best in all franchise cricket anthems!

 

[Ryw]

Tom abel picked by Lahore Qalander s bad pick...

 

[Asif321]

Zeeshan Ashraf for LQ

 

[TeymurBlake]

LQ pick is Zeeshan Ashraf. A bit underwhelming for me.

 

[KingOfPakBreakfast]

Looking forward to seeing the local picks in the gold and silver rounds. That's where we see if good young players or TTFs get picked.

 

[Titan24]

Who is Tom abel

A batting all rounder who can ball medium pace.

 

[Ryw]

Zeeshan Ashraf to Lahore Qalander s...

 

[Titan24]

Zeeshan Ashraf is a solid pick considering LQ’s combination. They were lacking firepower and Zeeshan can provide some on his day and is a keeper too

 

[Asif321]

Danish Aziz to KK

 

[Rana]

zeeshan Ashraf and Rohail picked before Rizwan

Looks like these franchises dont know anything about cricket....but PP fans do

 

[waheed_sofi]

Who will pick Rizwan now?

 

[TeymurBlake]

KK pick is Danis Aziz. Not sure if he's gonna play unfortunately.

 

[Ryw]

Danish Aziz for Karachi Kings, excellent pick,power hitter, great pick...

 

[Titan24]

No Zeeshan Malik as well till now

 

[Asif321]

Rizwan to Multan Sultans

 

[waheed_sofi]

Rizwan to MS

 

[TeymurBlake]

MS get Mohammad Rizwan. Good pick and will likely play.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Abullah Shafique and Iftikhar should be picked

 

[Titan24]

Rizwan to MS.

 

[waheed_sofi]

Rizwan to MS

Happy for him. At least will be picked for playing XI

 

[Ryw]

Rizwan to Multan Sultan s...

 

[Thunderbolt14]

Islamabad and Lahore are the top teams right now. Excellent picks.

 

[TeymurBlake]

IU pick is Reece Topley. Okay I guess.

 

[Asif321]

Iftikhar surely will be picked soon

 

[Ryw]

Reece Topley goes to Islamabad United,bad pick...

 

[Rayyman]

Zeeshan Malik, Saif Badar and Haris Sohail?

 

[Titan24]

If Reece Topely is no selected for Eng your of Ind, it could be one of the best surprise picks. A tall lef arm pacer who can swing the ball at pace

 

[Mamoon]

Has one-legged Sammy finally retired? He wasn’t retained by Zalmi and he is not in the draft either.

 

[Mamoon]

Fakhar was supposed to leave LQ.

 

[Titan24]

Has one-legged Sammy finally retired? He wasn’t retained by Zalmi and he is not in the draft either.

Possibly can be in the backroom staff of PZ.

 

[Ryw]

Awais Zia still unpicked handy left handed batsman in T20 s ???

 

[Hasan123]

If Reece Topely is no selected for Eng your of Ind, it could be one of the best surprise picks. A tall lef arm pacer who can swing the ball at pace

Came here to post this.

 

[Mamoon]

Haris Sohail has done nothing in PSL in 5 years.

 

[TeymurBlake]

PZ pick is Saqib Mahmood. Good pick and really good player.

 

[UzmanBeast]

Karachi Kings have not convinced me with the picks they've made. Danish Aziz was a good pick, and so was Mohammad Nabi, but the others don't really stand out to me.

They need solid middle-order batsmen, not all-rounders. They're going for too many all-rounders, and that will ruin their balance. I don't see many middle order options either, but maybe Iftikhar could get picked again by KK, though it would be adding another all-rounder to the team.

They've put themselves in a weird place.

 

[Titan24]

Saqib Mehmood in Silver is a steal but again availability is an issue

 

[Rana]

British Pakistani picked by PZ for Mamoon to bash

 

[waheed_sofi]

Will Babar Captain KK in next season or will it be Imad again?

 

[Rayyman]

Haris is miles better than 90% of batsmen in this draft.

If teams want to pick garbage hacks like Salt and Masood then that’s on them.

 

[Mamoon]

Banton shouldn’t have been released by Zalmi. They probably did because he will be unavailable because of England’s tour of India, but he has got a tremendous future.

Nonetheless, Miller is a fantastic pick. He is a brilliant white ball cricketer. Would really shore up the fragile middle-order.

 

[Asif321]

Qais Ahmed to QG

 

[TeymurBlake]

QG pick is Qais Ahmed. Good spinner.

 

[Mamoon]

British Pakistani picked by PZ for Mamoon to bash

He looks like a good bowler. Wish we could get Adil Rashid as well at some point, top white ball leggie.

Not everyone is a coward like Moeen.

 

[waheed_sofi]

No Abdullah Shafiq, Zeeshan Malik so far.
Surprising.

 

[Titan24]

Qais Ahmed is a pretty good T20 bowler who gets overshadowed by other Afghan spinners. Good pick

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Has one-legged Sammy finally retired? He wasn’t retained by Zalmi and he is not in the draft either.

Peshawar's coach or mentor

 

[Rayyman]

No Abdullah Shafiq, Zeeshan Malik so far.
Surprising.

Yet Shan Masood is a Gold player.

PSL is pathetic. Cannot believe people actually like this rubbish.

 

[Rana]

How on earth is Rizwan so overlooked in PSL? It was a travesty to pick Walton ahead of him last year but if that mistake isn't getting corrected this year then what is going on!

Open your eyes. I cant emphasise this enough. He is a specialist keeper at this level.

Kamran Akmal (hes like 50 years old)
Rohail Nazir
Zeeshan Ashraf
Sarfaraz
Azam Khan

are all clearly rated higher than him. You've got to be able to bat!

So is Shan Masood and Rizwan going to open the batting?

 

[Titan24]

Supplementary picks for some teams considering the unavailability of their selections at some point would be really important

 

[Saj]

Has one-legged Sammy finally retired? He wasn’t retained by Zalmi and he is not in the draft either.

I'm sure they'll find some sort of mentor type role for him.

Money for doing nothing as they tend to do.

 

[Ryw]

Qais Ahmad to Quetta Gladiators, spinners will dominate on Pakistani pitches...

 

[TeymurBlake]

PZ pick is Imam-ul-Haq. Okay then, not suited to T20 cricket for me but...

 

[Asif321]

Imam back to PZ

 

[UzmanBeast]

If Imam-ul-Haq can keep wickets well, he'd actually be useful in ODI cricket. Still, T20 is not his bread-and-butter.

 

[Hasan123]

Happy that Rizwan got a team.

 

[waheed_sofi]

4 Spinners from Afg picked so far. Aren't there any quality spinners in Pakistan?

 

[Ryw]

Imam ul Haq goes to Peshawar Zalmi, bad pick.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Zeeshan Malik, Abdullah Shafique and Iftikhar not getting picked yet is shocking imo.

 

[UzmanBeast]

A lot of good bowling lineups this year, but the same cannot be said for the batting. It looks weak in almost every team.

 

[Rana]

Zeeshan Malik, Abdullah Shafique and Iftikhar not getting picked yet is shocking imo.

Lol they need @bullet_drive in the draft to sort them out