Aaron Finch among renowned names register for PSL 8 Draft

LAHORE: Australia’s T20I captain Aaron Finch included in the renowned overseas cricketers who signed up for the upcoming Pakistan Super League (PSL) season 8 Player Draft.

Finch, who led Australia to their maiden T20 World Cup title in 2021, will feature in the player draft of the upcoming PSL 8.

The right-handed batter has a vast T20 experience as he played a mammoth 367 matches and scored 10,964 runs including eight centuries and a high score of 172.

As per the footage, released by the PSL, England’s Reece Topley, Tom Curran and Adil Rashid, South Africa’s Wayne Parnell, Lungi Ngidi and Rassie Van Der Dussen, Sri Lanka’s Dasun Shanaka and Wanindu Hasaranga, West Indies’ Nicholas Pooran and Evin Lewis and New Zealand’s Jimmy Neesham are also among the players who have registered for the draft.

Earlier, Afghanistan’s Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Mujeeb-ur-Rahman, Bangladesh’s Shakib-al-Hasan, England’s Alex Hales, Dawid Malan and Jason Roy, New Zealand’s Martin Guptill, Netherlands’ Colin Ackermann, South Africa’s Rilee Rossouw and David Miller, Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza have already been confirmed by the PCB for the draft.

It must be noted that the draft is likely to take place in the third week of November.

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