5 Associate players set for desert sojourn in APLT20

After a 4-5 hrs long players draft held in Dubai for the inaugural Afghanistan Premier League (APLT20), all the franchise team’s have selected their 17-member squads for the tournament to be held at Sharjah Cricket Stadium from Oct 05th – 21st, 2018.

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The franchise owners and team management (Kabul, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Paktia and Balkh) picked their squads with players segregated in 6 different categories (Icon, Diamond, Gold, Silver, ICC Associate and Emerging).

5 Associate member players were chosen from the “ICC Associate” category with league rules of having 1 Associate player per squad. However, it needs to be seen if the league will have any rules of selection for Associate players in the starting XI or not.

While Netherlands International and T20 circuit veteran Ryan ten Doeschate makes a sort of comeback in overseas T20 leagues with APLT20, UAE’s Mohammad Naveed, Scotland’s Calum Macleod and USA’s Ali Khan get vital opportunities to play in a league, which could well pave the way for them to get scouted by other prominent T20 leagues across the globe.

For Nepal’s Sandeep Lamichhane, it will be another feather in his cap in a hugely successful 2018 so far, with multiple stints in various T20 leagues prior to APLT20.

There was a delay during the draft process over the selection of the Associate member player pick by Kabul, which was later rectified with the pick of USA’s Ali Khan.

2018 Afghanistan Premier League Team’s & Squads:

Kabul Paktia Kandahar Balkh Nangarhar
Rashid Khan Shahid Afridi Brendon McCullum Chris Gayle Andre Russell
Luke Ronchi Mohammad Shahzad Wahab Riaz Colin Munro Tamim Iqbal
Hazratullah Zazai Thisera Perera Asghar Afghan Mohammad Nabi Mujeeb Zadran
Colin Ingram Cameron Delport Paul Stirling Ravi Bopara Ben Cutting
Farid Malik Sharafuddin Ashraf Najibullah Zadran Aftab Alam Shafiqullah Shafaq
Javed Ahmadi Samiullah Shenwari Karim Janat Gulbadin Naib Najibullah Taraki
Sohail Tanveer Chris Jordan Tymal Mills Mohammad Irfan Mitchell McClenaghan
Laurie Evans Faheem Ashraf Sam Billings Ben Laughlin Mushfiqur Rahim
Wayne Parnell Luke Wright Iftkhar Ahmed Kamran Akmal Mohammad Hafeez
Shahidullah Azmatullah Omarzai Hamza Hotak Qais Ahmed Rahmat Shah
Muslim Musa Rahmanullah Gurbaz Karim Sadiq Usman Ghani Naveen ul Haq
Afsar Khan Zazi Zia Akbar Sayed Shirzad Ikran Alikhil Zahir Khan
Ali Khan (USA) Calum Macleod (SCO) Mohammad Naveed (UAE) Ryan ten Doeschate (NED) Sandeep Lamichhane (NEP)
Zahir Shirzad Tahir Adil Waqar Salamkhel Tariq Stanikzai Fazal Haq
Fitratullah Khawry Yousuf Zazai Abdul Baqi Asadullah Matani Imran Janat
Usman Adil Fazal Zazai Wahidullah Shafaq Samiullah Salarzai Nasrat Qureshi
Shawkat Zaman Zia ur Rahman Morkel Waqarullah Ishaq Farhan Zakhil Khaybar Omar

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