The drafting procedure of Pakistan Super League 2018 held at national cricket academy on November 12, 2017. The PSL 2018 will kick start onward from February 22 to 25 March 2018, according to PSL schedule. All different matches will take place at four different venues Dubai, Sharjah, Lahore, and Karachi, as announced by the PCB.
PCB introduced a new entrant in Pakistan Super League 2018 named Multan Sultan and it will take on Peshawar Zalmi in the third edition of PSL opener. Peshawar Zalmi will try to defend their title. It will be the first-ever edition of PSL in which six teams will be featured and each team will take on twice each other in the group stage that will last until Friday, March 16. This will be followed by the playoffs that will be held from March 18 and last until March 21. The final will take place later on 25th of March. The best part is all the playoffs and the finals will take place in Lahore and Karachi respectively. These are the only matches that will be played in Pakistan.
Pakistan Super League 2018 Schedule Time Table
DATE |
LOCAL TIME |
BETWEEN |
VENUE |
| February 22, 2018 | 19:00 | Opening ceremony | Dubai |
| February 22, 2018 | 21:00 | 1st Match
Peshawar Zalmi vs. Multan Sultan |
Dubai |
| February 23, 2018 | 15:30 | 2nd Match
Karachi Kings vs. Quetta Gladiators |
Dubai |
| February 23, 2018 | 20:00 | 3rd Match
Multan Sultan vs. Lahore Qalandars |
Dubai |
| February 24, 2018 | 15:30 | 4th Match
Islamabad United vs. Peshawar Zalmi |
Dubai |
| February 24, 2018 | 20:00 | 5th Match
Quetta Gladiators vs. Lahore Qalandars |
Dubai |
| February 25, 2018 | 15:30 | 6th Match
Multan Sultan vs. Islamabad United |
Dubai |
| February 25, 2018 | 20:00 | 7th Match
Karachi Kings vs. Peshawar Zalmi |
Dubai |
| February 26, 2018 | 20:00 | 8th Match
Karachi Kings vs. Lahore Qalandars |
Dubai |
| February 28, 2018 | 20:00 | 9th Match
Islamabad United vs. Quetta Gladiators |
Sharjah |
| March 01, 2018 | 20:00 | 10th Match
Quetta Gladiators vs. Peshawar Zalmi |
Sharjah |
| March 02, 2018 | 15:30 | 11th Match
Multan Sultan vs. Karachi Kings |
Sharjah |
| March 02, 2018 | 20:00 | 12th Match
Lahore Qalandars vs. Islamabad United |
Sharjah |
| March 03, 2018 | 15:30 | 14th Match
Multan Sultan vs. Quetta Gladiators |
Sharjah |
| March 03, 2018 | 20:00 | 14th Match
Peshawar Zalmi vs. Lahore Qalandars |
Sharjah |
| March 04, 2018 | 20:00 | 15th Match
Islamabad United vs. Karachi Kings |
Sharjah |
| March 06, 2018 | 20:00 | 16th Match
Peshawar Zalmi vs. Multan Sultan |
Dubai |
| March 07, 2018 | 20:00 | 17th Match
Multan Sultan vs. Quetta Gladiators |
Dubai |
| March 08, 2018 | 15:30 | 18th Match
Islamabad United vs. Lahore Qalandars |
Dubai |
| March 08, 2018 | 20:00 | 19th Match
Karachi Kings vs. Quetta Gladiators |
Dubai |
| March 09, 2018 | 15:30 | 20th Match
Multan Sultan vs. Lahore Qalandars |
Dubai |
| March 09, 2018 | 20:00 | 21st Match
Peshawar Zalmi vs. Islamabad United |
Dubai |
| March 10, 2018 | 15:30 | 22nd Match
Multan Sultan vs. Karachi Kings |
Dubai |
| March 10, 2018 | 20:00 | 23rd Match
Peshawar Zalmi vs. Quetta Gladiators |
Dubai |
| March 11, 2018 | 20:00 | 24th Match
Karachi Kings vs. Lahore Qalandars |
Dubai |
| March 13, 2018 | 20:00 | 25th Match
Multan Sultan vs. Islamabad United |
Sharjah |
| March 14, 2018 | 20:00 | 26th Match
Quetta Gladiators vs. Lahore Qalandars |
Sharjah |
| March 15, 2018 | 20:00 | 27th Match
Peshawar Zalmi vs. Karachi Kings |
Sharjah |
| March 15, 2018 | 15:30 | 28t Match
Quetta Gladiators vs. Islamabad United |
Sharjah |
| March 16, 2018 | 20:00 | 29th Match
Peshawar Zalmi vs. Lahore Qalandars |
Sharjah |
| March 16, 2018 | 15:30 | 30th Match
Islamabad United vs. Karachi Kings |
Sharjah |
| March 18, 2018 | 20:00 | First Qualifier Round Match
Team 1 vs. Team 2 |
Dubai |
| March 20, 2018 | Not Announced | First Eliminators Match
Team 3 vs. Team 4 |
Lahore |
| March 21, 2018 | Not Announced | Second Eliminator Match
Winner Eliminators vs. Qualifier loser |
Lahore |
| March 25, 2018 | Not Announced | PSL T20 2018 Final Match | Karachi |
Biggest Trade of the Pakistan Super League 2018
The Former Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi will be moving from Peshawar Zalmi to Karachi kings, PCB officially announced in the press release. It was the biggest trade of PSL 2018, as part of the trade, Peshawar Zalmi, and Karachi Kings will be swapping picks in gold and silver categories of the player draft. In previous two addition of the PSL he played a key role in the victories of Peshawar Zalmi, In PSL 2017 he was tremendous with his performance though he has not played final knock because of his injury. Peshawar Zalmi owner Javed Afridi thanked for his services for the team. He said, “Shahid Afridi is a world-class player and the entire Peshawar Zalmi family thanks him for his contribution to our team.”
Pakistan Super League 2018 Squad All Teams
The Pakistan Super League 2018 squad announcement was after the PSL Draft that held on 12 November 2017 in a flashing ceremony in Lahore. All franchises were allowed to pick players in Emerging Player Round (two), Silver Round (two), Supplementary Player Round (four), Gold Round, Diamond Round, and the Platinum Round.
The final Squad of the HBL Pakistan Super League 2018 after the draft is here:
| Islamabad United | Karachi Kings | Peshawar Zalmi | Quetta Gladiators | Multan Sultans | Lahore Qalandars |
| Misbah-ul-Haq(c) | Imad Wasim (c)
|
Darren Sammy(c) | Sarfraz Ahmed(c)
|
Shoaib Malik(c) | Brendon McCullum(c) |
| Andre Russell | Usman Khan | Wahab Riaz | Kevin Pietersen | Kieron Pollard | Sunil Narine |
| Rumman Raees | Usama Mir | Shakib al Hasan | Rilee Rossouw, | Kumar Sangakkara | Umar Akmal
|
| Shadab Khan | Khurram Manzoor | Kamran Akmal | Mohammad Nawaz | Sohail Tanvir | Fakhar Zaman |
| Mohammad Sami
|
Ravi Bopara | Mohammad Hafeez
|
Anwar Ali | Mohammad Irfan | Yasir Shah |
| Samuel Badree | Babar Azam | Hasan Ali | Mahmudullah | Junaid Khan | Cameron Delport |
| Iftikhar Ahmed | Mohammad Amir | Haris Sohail | Umar Amin | Sohaib Maqsood | Aamer Yamin |
| Amad Butt | Mohammad Rizwan | Chris Jordan | Mir Hamza | Irfan Khan | Bilawal Bhatti |
| Asif Ali | Shahid Afridi | Mohammad Asghar | Asad Shafiq | Kashif Bhatti | Sohail Khan |
| JP Duminy | Colin Ingram | Dwayne Bravo | Shane Watson | Imran Tahir | Chris Lynn |
| Luke Ronchi, | Mitchell Johnson | Tamim Iqbal | Carlos Brathwaite | Darren Bravo | Mustafizur Rehman |
| Faheem Ashraf | Luke Wright | Hammad Azam | Rahat Ali | Ahmed Shehzad | Bilal Asif |
| Sam Billings | David Wiese | Saad Nasim | Rameez Raja Jr | Mohammad Abbas | Raza Hasan |
| Zafar Gohar | Tabish Khan | Taimoor Sultan | Saad Ali | Nicholas Pooran | Sohail Akhtar |
| Sahibzada Farhan | Mohammad Irfan Jr. | Sameen Gul | Saud Shakeel | Abdullah Shafique | Shaheen Shah Afridi |
| Hussain Talat | Hasan Mohsin | Ibtisam Sheikh | Hassan Khan | Saif Badar | Ghulam Mudassar |
| Alex Hales | Colin Munro | Andre Fletcher | Jason Roy | Hardus Viljoen | Angelo Mathews |
| David Willey | Eoin Morgan | Evin Lewis | Rashid Khan | Umar Gul | Mitchell McClenaghan |
| Mohammad Hasan | Saifullah Bangash | Khalid Usman | Moin Khan (jr.) | Umar Siddiq | Gulraiz Sadaf |
| Mohammad Hasnain | Yet To Be Finalized By Talent Hunt | Muhammad Arif | Faraz Ahmed | Ross Whiteley | Yet To Be Finalized By Talent Hunt |
Players’ Salaries of Pakistan Super League 2018
Emerging category: $10,000-12000
Silver Category: $22,000-33,000
Gold Category: $50,000- 60,000
Diamond Category: $75,000-80,000
Platinum Category: $140,000-230,000
PCB announced that overseas players who feature in matches in Pakistan would be paid $10,000 per game they appear.
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