The Hundred draft: Hasan Ali and Naseem Shah most expensive Pakistani players

Hassan Ali and Naseem Shah have become Pakistan’s most expensive players with the reserve price of GBP 100,000 in the British league’s draft ‘The Hundred’.

65 Pakistani players have been registered in the players’ draft held on March 20 for the fourth edition of ‘The Hundred’, including 60 men and five women while only two Pakistani players have been retained by their teams in the squad. Manchester Original have Usama Mir and Welsh Fire have retained Haris Rauf.

Among Pakistani players, the reserve price of Shadab Khan and Iftikhar Ahmed is GBP 75,000, the base price of Muhammad Amir, Saim Ayub, Aamir Jamal and Abdullah Shafiq is GBP 60,000, while the reserve price of Fakhar Zaman, Muhammad Haris and Imad Wasim in the draft is GBP 50,000.

Pakistani players Mir Hamza, Muhammad Hasnain and Azam Khan were registered with a reserve price of GBP 40,000, while the other 46 Pakistani players registered for the Men’s Hundred are included without a reserve price.

Among the players registered without reserve price are Salman Ali Agha, Abrar Ahmed, Umar Akmal, Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Umar Amin, Faheem Ashraf and Shahnawaz Dahani.

The names of Zaman Khan, Shaan Masood, Mohammad Nawaz, Ruman Raees, Saud Shakeel, Haneen Shah and Wasim Junior are also included in the list of unreserved Pakistani players.

Among women, Iram Javed, Nida Dar and Fatima Sana are registered with a reserve price of GBP 17,500, while Alia Riaz and Jawaria Rauf are included in the draft without a reserve price.

The fourth edition of The Hundred will start in July this year featuring eight teams each of men and women. The first match of the event will be played between Birmingham Phoenix and Oval Invincibles at Lord’s Cricket Ground on July 23.