More than 500 players from over 20 countries have registered their names for the player draft for 2019 Caribbean Premier League (CPLT20), which is scheduled to take place on 22nd May 2019 in London.
Apart from players from new Test members, Afghanistan & Ireland, there are players from Canada, USA, Oman, Hong Kong, Scotland, Bermuda, Nepal, UAE and Kenya, who are part of the draft. CPL franchises have the option to retain a maximum of 6 players from the 2018 edition if they choose to do so, which can include an ICC Americas region player.
Player retention’s by the franchises will be announced during the live broadcast of the player draft, to be broadcast on CPL social media channels on 22nd May. ICC Americas players would not be counted as overseas professionals in the franchise squads in 2019.
Associate players in 2019 CPLT20 Draft:
Bermuda: Kamau Leverock
Canada: Rizwan Cheema, Nikhil Dutta, Jeremy Gordon, Davy Jacobs, Faisal Jamkhandi, Abraash Khan, Rayyan Pathan, Junaid Siddiqui, Hamza Tariq, Rodrigo Thomas, Srimantha Wijeyeratne & Saad bin Zafar
Hong Kong: Babar Hayat, Raag Kapur, Nizakat Khan, Ehsan Khan & Anshuman Rath
Kenya: Irfan Ali Karim & Gagandeep Singh
Nepal: Dipendra Singh Airee, Sompal Kami, Rohit Paudel & Sandeep Lamichhane
Oman: Sufyaan Mehmood
Scotland: Calum MacLeod, George Munsey & Safyaan Sharif
UAE: Rohan Mustafa, Mohammad Naveed & Zahoor Khan
USA: Aaron Jones, Nosthush Kenjige, Ibrahim Khaleel, Ali Khan, Jaskaran Malhotra, Nisard Patel, Sagar Patel, Kyle Phillip, Shawm Qureshi, Roy Silva, Sunny Sohal & Hayden Walsh Jr
The list released by CPL can be found here.
