Multan Sultans PSL 2020 Team Squad

Multan Sultans Team 2020 Players List

                    Multan Sultans PSL 2020 Squad

Multan Sultans hasn’t enjoyed a good start to their Pakistan Super League, having finished 5th in the first season. Following the bad result, the team was embroiled in another controversy as the owners Schon Group failed to clear the dues owed to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), which led to the termination of its agreement with the cricket’s governing body. However, the team was later bought by Ali Tareen, who decided not to change the team’s name despite recommendations of Multan Bahadurs and Multan Malangs.

Shoaib Malik would once again lead the side and hope for a better return this time around. Multan Sultans squad is pretty decent with the ability to trouble all the franchises in the PSL 2019. In Shahid Afridi, Nicholas Pooran, Daniel Christian and Shoaib Malik, Multan Sultans has got some big hitters and match-winners.

The bowling department looks strong as well with the presence of Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Abbas and veteran Shahid Afridi. While Multan Sultans fans are already predicting Sultans to win the trophy this time around, it remains to be seen how the side performs on the field.

Multan Sultan team 2020 roster is placed here. The Multan Sultans were added to five existing teams at the end of the second edition of the tournament, but the news that came in before the start of the fourth was their contract had been terminated. Going into the fourth season of the PSL, Multan Sultans managed to retain captain Shoaib Malik as their sole Platinum Category pick for the season. Malik’s batting has matured like old wine and he will be crucial to his team’s chances not just as a batsman but also the skipper of the side.

In the Diamond category of cricketers, Junaid Khan and Mohammad Irfan will join the setup while the Gold Category retention is top-order batsman Shan Masood.

Test match gun bowler Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Irfan Khan and Umar Siddiq are the three Silver Category players while Mohammad Junaid becomes just the second Emerging player to be retained in the side.

The bad news for the Multan Sultans was that Steven Smith opted out of the tournament because of an elbow injury. He was replaced by Andre Russell in the Replacement Draft. They also got in James Vince for Joe Denly.

Multan Sultans Team Squad 2019

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Pakistani Players	International Players
Shan Masood	Andre Russell (replaced Steve Smith)
Umar Siddiq	James Vince (replaced Joe Denly)
Mohammad Ilyas	Laurie Evans
Shoaib Malik	Qais Ahmad
Shahid Afridi	Johnson Charles (replaced Nicholas Pooran)
Nauman Ali	Supplementary Foreign Players
Mohammad Junaid	Tom Moores
Irfan Khan	Daniel Christian
Junaid Khan
Mohammad Irfan
Mohammad Abbas
Hammad Azam
Supplementary Pakistan Players
Shakeel Ansar
Ali Shafiq

Key Players on Multan Sultans Team 2020

Shoaib Malik & Shahid Afridi: There’s a reason to club them together and that’s because they are both legends of the game and for all one knows, might not play too much longer. So watch them while they are still around as they continue to deliver with the bat and ball respectively and at times reverse those roles too.

Mohammad Abbas: Having already become Pakistan’s best Test match bowler in recent times, it would be interesting to watch how Mohammad Abbas goes in the T20 format. It would be a big transition for a bowler who doesn’t have a lot of pace but as they say about class – it’s permanent.

Andre Russell: Russell has come in as a replacement for Steven Smith but what a replacement he is. Both, with the bat and the ball, Russell can go big and long and can single-handedly win games. If he keeps hit fitness, Russell could be one of the early picks for the man-of-the-tournament award.

Wasim Akram joined the squad as the cricket operations director of the side and Tom Moody joins the team as their head coach and they can be expected to remain a part of the set-up even for the new team.

The Schon Group had won the rights to own the Multan Sultans team, and the team was based in Multan, joining the Peshawar Zalmi, Quetta Gladiators, Lahore Qalandars, Karachi Kings and Islamabad United. However, they were unable to keep pace with paying the PSL money for the fourth season too and were suspended from the competition.

One of the reasons why a sixth team was included in the PSL is to cash in on the ever-increasing popularity of the cricket league. Last season, Pakistan cricket fans had taken to the PSL like fish to water, surpassing most expectations as far as TV ratings are concerned. The Multan Sultan squad is placed above.

PSL 2020 Multan Sultans Team Schedule

Multan Sultans team schedule will be placed below;

Date	Day	Multan Sultans PSL T20 2019 Schedule	Venue
15th February	Friday	Multan Sultans v Karachi Kings	Dubai
16th February	Saturday	Islamabad United v Multan Sultans	Dubai
20th February	Wednesday	Quetta Gladiators v Multan Sultans	Sharjah
22nd February	Friday	Multan Sultans v Lahore Qalandars	Sharjah
24th February	Sunday	Peshawar Zalmi v Multan Sultans	Sharjah
26th February	Tuesday	Multan Sultans v Islamabad United	Dubai
28th February	Thursday	Multan Sultans vs Peshawar Zalmi	Dubai
1st March	Friday	Multan Sultans v Quetta Gladiators	Dubai
4th March	Monday	Karachi Kings v Multan Sultans	Abu Dhabi
10th March	Sunday	Lahore Qalandars v Multan Sultans	Lahore

The Multan Consortium led by Ali Tareen has won the franchise rights for the sixth team, by exceeding the reserve price. After taking opinion from users the owners have decided against renaming the team and the name has again been restored to Multan Sultans.

The rights have been awarded for seven years. The reserve price set by PCB was $5.21 million per annum for a period of seven years. This reserve price has been exceeded by the Multam Consortium, led by Ali Tareen.

Earlier Multan Sultans contract was cancelled by PCB and the sixth PSL franchise was named as 'The Sixth Team'.

Multan Sultans Squad Updates

Chris Green replaces Qais Ahmed

Johnson Charles to replaced Nicholas Pooran

Multan Sultans 2020 - Replacement Draft Picks

Andre Russell joins in place of injured Steve Smith

James Vince joins as a replacement for Joe Denly.

Multan Sultans 2020 - Draft Picks

Shahid Afridi - Platinum

Steve Smith - Platinum

Joe Denly - Diamond

Qais Ahmed - Gold

Nicholas Pooran - Gold

Laurie Evans - Silver

Nauman Ali - Silver

Muhammad Ilyas - Emerging

Dan Christian - Silver

Shakeel Ansar - Silver

Tom Moores - Supplementary Pick

Ali Shafiq - Supplementary Pick

Multan Sultans Squad 2020 - Retention List

Shoaib Malik - Platinum

Junaid Khan - Diamond

Mohammad Irfan (Ambassador) - Diamond

Shan Masood - Gold

Mohammad Abbas - Silver

M. Irfan Khan - Silver

Umar Siddiq - Silver

Mohammad Junaid - Emerging