Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2023 Squads: Full Squads Of All Six Teams For The Tournament . The HBL PSL, or Pakistan Super League, started in 2016 with five franchises as a part of the tournament, but today it features six teams. PSL has shown decent standards of the game, featuring many international spearheads of the game. This year, it will be holding its 8th edition from 13th Feb to 19th March 2023.
The venues include the National Stadium in Karachi and the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Multan cricket stadium, and Rawalpindi cricket stadium. Quetta’s Bugti stadium are also available this year, though PCB has yet to confirm anything of the sort.
Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2023: Full Squad Of All 6 Teams
The Pakistan Super League will hold its eighth season in 2023, with six franchises participating. Islamabad United, Karachi Kings, Lahore Qalandars, Multan Sultans, Peshawar Zalmi, and Quetta Gladiators—all of these teams have attained success at least once in the tournament’s history.
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The enlisted players for the upcoming edition of the PSL for all teams are as follows:
1. Islamabad United
They are the most successful franchise in PSL history, having won two titles and being the league’s first champions. However, after successive failures in the second eliminator for two consecutive seasons, they are all set with an altered squad.
Squad: Shadab Khan (C), Asif Ali, Azam Khan, Hasan Ali, Faheem Ashraf, Muhammad Wasim Jr., Paul Stirling, Colin Munro, Alex Hales, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Abrar Ahmed, Sohaib Maqsood, Rumman Raees, Zeeshan Zameer, Hassan Nawaz, Moeen Ali, Mubasir Khan
2. Karachi Kings
Karachi Kings, though not very successful as a franchise, still managed to win the title in 2020. The Kings had a good run that year but failed miserably in the last edition when they ended last in the group stage.
This year’s Karachi Kings Squad: Imad Wasim (C)), Mohammad Amir, Aamer Yamin, Sharjeel Khan, Qasim Akram, Mir Hamza, Shoaib Malik, Haider Ali, Matthew Wade, Imran Tahir, James Vince, James Fuller, Andrew Tye, Tayyab Tahir, Muhammad Akhlaq, Irfan Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi, and Mohammad Umar.
3. Lahore Qalandars
This franchise has been a decent performer in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) finishing as runners-up in the 2020 season and then winning back even more strongly winning it in the 2022 edition. The defending champions would look to defend their title this season too.
Squad: Shaheen Afridi ( C), Haris Rauf, Rashid Khan, David Wiese, Abdullah Shafique, Harry Brook, Kamran Ghulam, Zaman Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Hussain Talat, Sikander Raza, Jalat Khan, Liam Dawson, Jordan Cox, Dilbar Hussain, Tahir Baig, Ahmed Daniyal, Shawaiz Irfan.
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4. Multan Sultans
Not present since the very first edition, later introduced in the year 2018, initially they didn’t perform great but soon emerged successful in 2020 when they entered the semis for the first time and ended up in 3rd position- 2020, winners-2021 and the defending champions went to the finals to defend their title but faced defeat at the hands of Lahore qalandars in 2022.
Squad of Multan Sultans: Mohammad Rizwan (C), Shan Masood, Shahnawaz Dahani, Adil Rashid, Khushdil Shah, Rilee Rossouw, Usama Mir, Tim David, Abbas Afridi, Ihsanullah, Arafat Minhas, David Miller, Joshua Little, Sameen Gul, Akeal Hosein, Usman Khan, Anwar Ali, Mohammad Sarwar.
5. Peshawar Zalmi
Probably the most successful franchise in Pakistan Super League history, the only one to have competed in four finals, winning only one and finishing second in the other three.
Squad: Babar Azam (C), Wahab Riaz, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Sherfane Rutherford, Salman Irshad, Mohammad Haris, Aamer Jamal, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Rovman Powell, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Danish Aziz, Arshad Iqbal, Usman Qadir, Saim Ayub, Sufiyan Muqeem, Haseebullah Khan, James Neesham.
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6. Quetta Gladiators
The gladiators made a strong start to their PSL journey and ended as runners-up in the first 2 seasons of the PSL in 2016 and 2017 and later winning it in 2019. However, they had miserable results in the last three seasons.
Squad: Sarfaraz Ahmed (C), Mohammad Nawaz, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Hasnain, Jason Roy, Umar Akmal, Naveen-ul-Haq, Will Smeed, Wanindu Hasaranga, Naseem Shah, Odean Smith, Ahsan Ali, Umaid Asif, Mohammad Zahid, Abdul Wahid Bangalzai, Aimal Khan, Martin Guptill, and Omair Yousuf.
