LAHORE – The much-awaited Pakistan Super League Player Draft 2018 will takeplace on November 20 in Islamabad.The Player Draft has been moved out of Lahore in a bid to make more citiespart of PSL activities,said a spokesman of the PCB here on Friday.

“Following the PSL final in Karachi this year,there are a total of eightgames scheduled to take place in Pakistan (Karachi and Lahore),Islamabad isset to be the second city in Pakistan after Lahore to host the PSL PlayerDraft”,he said.

“In the lead up to this year’s Draft, all six teams will finalize theirplayer retentions by November 13. The trade window will close a day earlieron November 12. As per the rules for this season, each team can retain amaximum of 10 players”, he added.

He said this season’s pool of top-tier player roster includes foreign starssuch as AB de Villiers,Steve Smith,Kieron Pollard,Colin Munro,ShaneWatson,Sunil Narine,Chris Lynn and Daren Sammy.

“This galaxy of foreign stars will team up with Pakistan’s leading talentincluding the likes of national skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shahid Afridi,Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Hafeez, Faheem Ashraf, Shadab Khan, Hasan Ali andFakhar Zaman”,said the spokesman.Players who took part in last year’s season can be retained,traded orreleased back into the Draft pool. – APP