All seven franchises taking part in the upcoming second edition of the Kashmir Premier League (KPL) have finalised their squads.
The iconic Muzaffarabad Cricket Stadium will see some of the biggest names of Pakistan cricket — including Shahid Khan Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Sar-faraz Ahmed, Kamran Akmal, Ahmed Shahzad, and Mohammad Hafeez — in action from August 11 to 26. Here’s the list of the 18-member squad of all the seven franchises:
Rawalakot Hawks
Mohammad Amir (Icon Player), Ahmed Shahzad (Platinum), Hussain Talat (Platinum), Asif Afridi (Diamond), Zaman Khan (Diamond), Amad Butt (Gold), Bismillah Khan (Gold), Zeeshan Malik (Silver), Musaddiq Ahmed (Silver), Faisal Akram (Silver), Ammad Alam (Silver), Saeedullah (Emerg-ing), Ehsanullah (Emerging), Zain-ul-Hasan (Kashmir), Saif Ali (Kashmir), Atif Sheikh (Kash-mir), Roya Farhan Khan (Kashmir), Kashif Ali (Kashmir)
Muzaffarabad Tigers
Mohammad Hafeez (Icon Player), Sohail Tanvir (Platinum), Iftikhar Ahmed (Platinum), Haseebullah Khan (Diamond), Anwar Ali (Diamond), Zeeshan Ashraf (Gold), Arshad Iqbal (Gold), Mir Hamza (Silver), Ahmed Safi Abdullah (Silver), Salman Fayyaz (Silver), Taimur Sultan (Silver), Aqib Liaquat (Emerging), Amir Khan (Emerging), Aqib Ilyas (Silver), Saad Bin Zafar (Kashmir), Inzamam-ul-Haq (Kashmir), Osman Maroof (Kashmir), Usama Fazal (Kashmir)
Kotli Lions
Khurram Manzoor (Icon Player), Danish Aziz (Platinum), Sarfaraz Ahmed (Platinum), Ahsan Ali (Diamond), Khurram Shahzad (Diamond), Irfanullah Shah (Gold), Khalid Usman (Gold), Mushtaq Ahmed Kalhoro (Silver), Hassan Khan (Silver), Hanif Azad (Silver), Hassan Mohsin (Silver), Imran Shah (Emerging), Irfan Ali Kasmi (Emerging), Zayyan Khan (Kotli Lions), Basit Ali (Kashmir), Naveed Malik (Kashmir), Mujtaba Gayyaz (Kash-mir), Nadeem Khalil (Kashmir)
Bagh Stallions
Kamran Akmal (Icon Player), Rumman Raees (Platinum), Sohaib Maqsood (Platinum), Amir Yamin (Diamond), Umar Amin (Diamond), Kashif Bhatti (Gold), M Imran Jr (Gold), Mohammad Sar-war (Silver), Mohammad Sharoon Siraj (Silver), Abdullah Jamal (Silver), Aitizaz Habib Khan (Sil-ver), Maaz Khan (Emerging), Sajjad Ali (Emerging), Hassan Raza (Kashmir), Daniyal Allah Ditta (Kashmir), Amir Shahzad (Kashmir), Arsalan Arif (Kashmir), Raja Farhan (Kashmir)
Mirpur Royals
Shoaib Malik (Icon Player), Imad Wasim (Plati-num), Haris Sohail (Platinum), Ali Imran (Diamond), Salman Irshad (Diamond), Abrar Ahmed (Gold), Mohammad Akhlaq (Gold), Kashif Ali (Silver), Mohammad Hamza Arshad (Silver), Zubair Khan Lodhy (Silver), Zaid Alam (Silver), Hassan Nawaz (Emerging), Ali Razzaq (Emerging), Sufyan (Kashmir), Shan (Kashmir), Umar Hayat (Kashmir), Faizan Saleem (Kashmir), Shadab Majeed (Kashmir)
Jammu Janbaz
Sharjeel Khan (Icon Player), Faheem Ashraf (Platinum), Shahid Afridi (Platinum), Umar Akmal (Diamond), Sahibzada Farhan (Diamond), Usama Mir (Gold), Akif Javed (Gold), Imran Khan Sr (Sil-ver), Umar Siddique Khan (Silver), Shahzab (Silver), Ahmed Khan (Silver), Hamza Shah Afridi (Emerging), Samiullah Afridi (Emerging), Nakash (Kashmir), Faisal Altaf (Kashmir), Naseer Najam (Kashmir), Mohammad Shahzad (Kashmir), Mehran Mumtaz (Kashmir)
Overseas Warriors
Asad Shafiq (Icon Player), Azam Khan (Plati-num), Kamran Ghulam (Platinum), Mohammad Imran Randhawa (Diamond), Sohail Khan (Dia-mond), Umaid Asif (Gold), Saif Badar (Gold), Adil Amin (Silver), Bilal Asif (Silver), Ali Shafiq (Sil-ver), Mohammad Shahzad (Silver), Umar Zeeshan Loya (Emerging), Khuwaja Mohammad (Emerging), Farhan Shafi (Kashmir), Shahzad (Kashmir), Hashim Ali (Kashmir), Saad Asif (Kashmir), Malik Nisar (Kashmir).—AP