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LAHORE: Pakistan ace players Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, and several other cricketers attended the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 11 player auction workshop, which is organized to familiarize stakeholders with the auction process.
The workshop is held at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore, with all stakeholders of PSL invited to the workshop for the player auction.
The purpose of the workshop is to familiarize stakeholders with the auction process. Moreover, the briefing will also help determine the players’ categories and base prices.
Ahead of the workshop, the national team players, Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, and several others, were seen greeting each other.
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It is worth mentioning that this will be the first time since PSL’s inception that a player’s auction will be held instead of the traditional Draft system.
The strategic shift is aimed at enhancing competitive balance, increasing transparency, and providing players’ greater earning opportunities.
Under the revised framework, each franchise will be allowed to retain a maximum of four players, with only one retention permitted per category.
This marks a sharp departure from previous seasons, where teams could retain up to eight players, along with additional provisions such as mentors, brand ambassadors and the Right to Match (RTM) option.
For PSL 11, the PCB has abolished the mentor, brand ambassador and RTM clauses altogether, streamlining the squad-building process ahead of the auction.
The two newly inducted franchises, Hyderabad and Sialkot, will also be granted special provisions, allowing them to select and retain four players from the available pool before the player auction.
In addition, every team will be permitted one direct signing of a foreign player who did not feature in PSL 10, a move designed to inject fresh international talent into the competition.
The PCB also confirmed that PSL 11 will get underway on March 26, 2026, and will mark Faisalabad’s first-ever stint as a host city. The venue will join Karachi, Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi, expanding the league to five host cities.
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