Pakistan Super League 2023
Pakistan Super League 2023 (also known as PSL 8 or HBL PSL 2023 for promotional reasons) is the eighth season of the Pakistan Super League, a Twenty20 cricket tournament organized by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in 2015. Then the president of PCB, Ramiz Raja hinted at changing the auction system to change the structure for the 2023 season, but the design was kept. The joint session was held on December 15 in Karachi. A total of 36 foreigners were selected along with local players. The competition was held between February 13 and March 19, 2023
Venues:
The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced that the tournament will be held in Multan, Peshawar, Lahore, and Karachi in the 2023 season. Lahore and Karachi are the same venues in 2022. The Arbab Niaz stadium in Peshawar has been declared unfit for tournament hosting. Quetta's Bugti Stadium has been added to the list of PSL venues. But it was canceled shortly after due to logistical reasons.
Match Officials:
On February 7, the PCB released the list of officials for the tournament, THAZNEWS which includes 3 of the 14 ICC elite teams.
Squads:
The list of retained players was announced in November 2022. The framework of the competition was completed on December 15 with the end of the letter.
| Islamabad United | Karachi Kings | Lahore Qalandars | Multan Sultans | Peshawar Zalmi | Quetta Gladiators |
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| Shadab Khan (c) | Imad Wasim (c) | Shaheen Afridi (c) | Mohammad Rizwan (c) | Babar Azam (c) | Sarfaraz Ahmed (c) |
Asif Ali (VC
) | Mohammad Amir | Haris Rauf | Shan Masood (VC) | Wahab Riaz | Mohammad Nawaz |
| Azam Khan | Aamer Yamin | David Wiese | Shahnawaz Dahani | Tom Kohler-Cadmore | Iftikhar Ahmed |
| Hasan Ali | Sharjeel Khan | Rashid Khan | Khushdil Shah | Sherfane Rutherford | Mohammad Hasnain |
| Faheem Ashraf | Qasim Akram | Abdullah Shafique | Rilee Rossouw | Salman Irshad | Umar Akmal |
| Mohammad Wasim | Mir Hamza | Kamran Ghulam | Tim David | Mohammad Haris | Will Smeed |
| Colin Munro | Shoaib Malik | Harry Brook | Abbas Afridi | Aamer Jamal | Wanindu Hasaranga |
| Paul Stirling | Haider Ali | Zaman Khan | Ihsanullah | Bhanuka Rajapaksa | Naseem Shah |
| Alex Hales | Matthew Wade | Fakhar Zaman | David Miller | Danish Aziz | Odean Smith |
| Rahmanullah Gurbaz | Imran Tahir | Hussain Talat | Josh Little | Arshad Iqbal | Ahsan Ali |
| Fazalhaq Farooqi | James Fuller | Sikandar Raza | Akeal Hosein | Usman Qadir | Umaid Asif |
| Abrar Ahmed | Andrew Tye | Liam Dawson | Usama Mir | Saim Ayub | Mohammad Zahid |
| Sohaib Maqsood | Tayyab Tahir | Dilbar Hussain | Usman Khan | Sufiyan Muqeem | Abdul Bangalzai |
| Rumman Raees | Muhammad Akhlaq | Mirza Tahir Baig | Sameen Gul | Haseebullah Khan | Aimal Khan |
| Zeeshan Zameer | Irfan Khan | Ahmed Daniyal | Anwar Ali | James Neesham | Dwaine Pretorius |
| Hassan Nawaz | Mohammad Umar | Shawaiz Irfan | Mohammad Sarwar | Khurram Shahzad | Will Jacks |
| Moeen Ali | Ben Cutting | Ahsan Bhatti | Adil Rashid | Haris Sohail | Mohammad Hafeez |
| Mubasir Khan | Muhammad Musa | Jalat Khan | Arafat Minhas | Shakib Al Hasan |
| Tom Curran | Faisal Akram | Sam Billings | Kieron Pollard | Richard Gleeson |
| Zafar Gohar | Adam Rossington | Kusal Mendis | Amad Butt | Peter Hatzoglou
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| Gus Atkinson | Akif Javed | Shane Dadswell | Izharulhaq Naveed | Azmatullah Omarzai
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| Tymal Mills | | Shai Hope | Wayne Parnell | Dasun Shanaka |
| Rassie van der Dussen | | Mohammad Ilyas |
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Carlos BrathwaiteTrophy:The 2023 edition of the PSL, called Supernova, was unveiled on 9 February 2023. This award is considered historic because it was made in Pakistan by Lahore-based Mahfooz Jewellers. | |
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