The PSL 2020 draft is edging closers and the franchises are looking to form new strategies to compete in the fifth edition of the tournament.
In a bid to strengthen their squads, each franchise has announced the players they will release ahead of the PSL 2020 draft in the first week of December.
There have been some big changes in the roasters: Multan Sultans and Islamabad United both have decided to release their captains – Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Sami respectively.
Here are the complete lists of all the players retained and released by each franchise:
Islamabad United
| Players Retained | |
|---|---|
| Player | Category |
| Shadab Khan | Platinum |
| Faheem Ashraf | Diamond as Brand Ambassador |
| Asif Ali | Diamond |
| Luke Ronchi | Gold as Player Mentor |
| Hussain Talat | Gold |
| Amad Butt | Silver |
| Musa Khan | Silver |
| Rizwan Hussain | Silver |
| Players Released | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Hales | Cameron Delport | Chadwick Walton | Ian Bell |
| Mohammad Sami | Nasir Nawaz | Phillip Salt | Rumman Raees |
| Sahibzada Farhan | Samit Patel | Waqas Maqsood | Wayne Parnell |
| Zafar Gohar | Zahir Khan | ||
Karachi Kings
| Players Retained | |
|---|---|
| Player | Category |
| Babar Azam | Platinum |
| Mohammad Amir | Platinum |
| Imad Wasim | Diamond as Brand Ambassador |
| Iftikhar Ahmed | Diamond |
| Aamir Yamin | Gold |
| Usama Mir | Silver |
| Umer Khan | Emerging |
| Players Released | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Summers | Abrar Ahmed | Ali Imran | Awais Zia |
| Ben Dunk | Colin Ingram | Colin Munro | Jaahid Ali |
| Liam Livingstone | Mohammad Rizwan | Ravi Bopara | Sikandar Raza |
| Soahil Khan | Usman Shinwari | ||
Lahore Qalandars
| Players Retained | |
|---|---|
| Player | Category |
| Fakhar Zaman | Platinum |
| Mohammad Hafeez | Platinum |
| Shaheen Shah Afridi | Diamond as Brand Ambassador |
| David Wiese | Diamond |
| Usman Shinwari | Diamond |
| Haris Rauf | Gold |
| Sohail Akhtar | Gold |
| Salman Butt | Silver |
| Players Released | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| AB de Villiers | Agha Salman | Aizaz Cheema | Anton Devcich |
| Asela Gunaratne | Brendon Taylor | Carlos Brathwaite | Corey Anderson |
| Gohar Ali | Hardus Viljeon | Haris Sohail | Hassan Khan |
| Mohammad Irfan | Rahat Ali | Riki Wessels | Ryan ten Doeschate |
| Saad Ali | Sandeep Lamichhane | Umair Masood | Yasir Shah |
Multan Sultans
| Players Retained | |
|---|---|
| Player | Category |
| Mohammad Irfan | Platinum |
| Shahid Afridi | Diamond as Player Mentor |
| James Vince | Gold as Brand Ambassador |
| Junaid Khan | Gold |
| Ali Shafiq | Silver |
| Shan Masood | Silver |
| Mohammad Illyas | Emerging |
| Players Released | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Andre Russell | Chris Green | Dan Christian | Hammad Azam |
| Joe Denly | Johnson Charles | Laurie Evans | M. Irfan Khan |
| Mohammad Abbas | Mohammad Junaid | Nicholas Pooran | Numan Ali |
| Qais Ahmed | Shakeel Ansar | Shoaib Malik | Steve Smith |
| Tom Moores | Umar Siddiq | ||
Peshawar Zalmi
| Players Retained | |
|---|---|
| Player | Category |
| Hasan Ali | Platinum |
| Kieron Pollard | Platinum |
| Wahab Riaz | Platinum |
| Kamran Akmal | Diamond as Brand Ambassador |
| Daren Sammy | Gold as Player Mentor |
| Imam-ul-Haq | Gold |
| Umar Amin | Silver |
| Players Released | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Andre Fletcher | Chris Jordan | Dawid Malan | Ibtesam Sheikh |
| Jamal Anwar | Khalid Usman | Lendl Simmons | Liam Dawson |
| Misbah-ul-Haq | Nabi Gul | Sameen Gul | Samiullah |
| Sohaib Maqsood | Tymal Mills | Umaid Asif | Waqar Salamkheil |
| Wayen Madsen | |||
Quetta Gladiators
| Players Retained | |
|---|---|
| Player | Category |
| Sarfaraz Ahmed | Platinum |
| Mohammad Nawaz | Platinum |
| Shane Watson | Diamond as Player Mentor |
| Ahmed Shehzad | Diamond |
| Umar Akmal | Gold as Brand Ambassador |
| Mohammad Hasnain | Gold |
| Ahsan Ali | Silver |
| Naseem Shah | Silver |
| Players Released | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Anwar Ali | Danish Aziz | Dwayne Bravo | Dwayne Smith |
| Fawad Ahmed | Ghulam Mudassir | Harry Gunrey | Jalat Khan |
| Max Weller | Mohamamd Asghar | Mohammad Azam | Mohammad Irfan Jr. |
| Rilee Rossouw | Saud Shakil | Sohail Tanvir | |
Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Abbas, Rumman Raees, Bilaawal Bhatti, Aizaz Cheema, Rahat Ali and Anwar Ali are all ignored in PSL, when they should have been selected and should have been given a chance to learn from he foreign players/coaches and groom themselves to be better players.