56 foreign players to play in SLPL

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has named 56 foreign players who will play in the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League. Unfortunately there are no players participating from India and England – apart from Azhar Mahmood – The players were selected by the seven franchises through a draft system, while Azar Mahmood was picked differently. These selections were made on Thursday in Colombo.

For the icon player originally Shahid Afridi* was selected for the Negenahira but all the franchises’ was on the stand that all players participated in the entire tournament. But Afridi will not be released from the PCB as there is a series with Australia which is due to commence on the 28^th August. In that case Afridi, Hence the Negenahira will be without the icon player. Hence Afridi was excluded by the draft panel team with the agreement of the other franchises; Afridi who was excluded from negenahira was grabbed by Ruhuna. Lasith Malinga remains Ruhuna’s icon, while Nagenahira’s icon player will be named Today. (Friday 6th of July)

The list has a number of players from Australia and Pakistan. There would be 18 and 13 from Australia and Pakistan respectively. Misbah-ul-Haq, who is included as he had stepped down from the captaincy of T20 team of Pakistan in  May last year and was not picked for the Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka that followed he has been grabbed by Kandurata in the draft. Mohammad Hafeez, who replaced Misbah-Ul-Haq as Pakistan Twenty20 captain, was not included in the list of players from Pakistan picked by Sri Lanka Cricket. West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor, who has been absent from Test and ODI’s has been included in the team of Ruhuna.

The release is also mention the payment made to the International players. The players from Sri Lanka to be selected would be made on Friday.

The International players to participate in the SLPL:

(all values in US $)

Uthura: Shakib Al Hasan (25,000), Brendan Taylor (10,000), Kevon Cooper (15,000), Imran Farhat (20,000), Fidel Edwards (20,000), David Miller (25,000), Dillon du Preez (20,000), Samuel Badree (20,000)

Nagenahira: Mitchell Marsh (30,000), Imran Nazir (20,000), Travis Birt (25,000), Ahmed Shahzad (20,000), Ben Laughlin (20,000), Elias Sunny (12,000), Musfiqur Rahim (20,000), Nasir Hossain (16,000)

Ruhuna: Shahid Afridi (50,000), Daniel Harris (30,000), Ryan Harris (30,000), Aaron Finch (30,000), Jerome Taylor (20,000), Nathan McCullum (25,000), Ryan McLaren (15,000), Richard Levi (25,000)

Wayamba: Azhar Mahmood (30,000), Umar Akmal (25,000), Tamim Iqbal (18,000), Colin Ingram (20,000), Kemar Roach (25,000), James Faulkner (25,000), Abdul Razzaq (25,000), Brad Hogg (25,000)

Kandurata: Saeed Ajmal (25,000), Misbah-ul-Haq (25,000), Sohail Tanvir (20,000), Chris Lynn (20,000), Dane Vilas (10,000), Albie Morkel (35,000), Johan Botha (25,000), Adam Voges (25,000)

Basnahira: Brad Hodge (30,000), Marlon Samuels (30,000), Daniel Smith (20,000), Dirk Nannes (35,000), Robin Peterson (20,000), Tim Southee (25,000), Clint McKay (25,000), Cameron Borgas (20,000)

Uva: Andrew McDonald (35,000), Umar Gul (25,000), Shoaib Malik (35,000), Callum Ferguson (30,000), James Franklin (30,000), Abdur Rehman (20,000), Hammad Azam (15,000), Chris Gayle (100,000)