Three members of England's T20 World Cup squad join the six-team competition for 2023, while Hampshire trio James Vince, James Fuller and Liam Dawson are all picked up
Key figures from England's victorious T20 World Cup campaign are set to grace next season's Pakistan Super League after being selected during the play draft.
Islamabad United picked up Moeen Ali in the supplementary rounds while Alex Hales, selected during the first platinum set returns for a fourth campaign with the two-time winners.
Legspinner Adil Rashid is meanwhile bound for his first PSL spell at Multan Sultans.
Karachi Kings secured the return of James Vince and added his Hampshire T20 Blast-winning teammate James Fuller, who will be a newcomer to the PSL.
Lahore Qalandars secured late deals for Liam Dawson and Jordan Cox, completing the English contingent.
James Vince returns to Karachi Kings, after a spell in 2016 (ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Harry Brook, Will Smeed, Jason Roy and Tom Kohler-Cadmore had already been retained ahead of the draft last month.
In Karachi, the scene of the third Test between Pakistan and England later this week, across a little over three-and-a-half hours each of the six franchises filled their squads ahead of the eighth edition of the competition.
It was a process complicated by the addition of two new franchise tournaments - the CSA T20 and ILT20 - which overlaps the start of the PSL on February 9 which impacts the availability of players.
It was therefore little surprise to see the likes of platinum players Nicholas Pooran, Dasun Shanaka and Mohammad Nabi overlooked, while there was no place for Aaron Finch or Shakib Al Hasan, who have now been overlooked for all three franchise competitions.
It was no surprise to see the leading run-scorer from the 2022 season, Fakhar Zaman, selected as the No.1 pick by Qalandars before Quetta Gladiators signed up Wanindu Hasaranga and used a right to match to capture Naseem Shah from Multan Sultans.
Sikandar Raza, previously of Karachi Kings and Peshawar Zalmi, is off to Lahore Qalandars (Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
Kings signed up Australians Matthew Wade and Andrew Tye as well as veteran leggie Imran Tahir, Rahmanullah Gurbaz returned to United along with fellow Afghan Fazalhaq Farooqi while Rovman Powell was accompanied by Bhanuka Rajapaksa and Mujeeb ur Rahman to Peshawar Zalmi.
Defending champions Qalandars made one of the most eye-catching moves of the draft to acquire Zimbabwe's Sikandar Raza, and Akeal Hosein and Ireland's Josh Little went to the Sultans.
Abrar Ahmed, fresh from taking 11 wickets on his Test debut against England at Multan, is bound for Islamabad.
The concluding supplementary round offered a second chance for players and it benefitted Jimmy Neesham (Zalmi) and Martin Guptill (Gladiators), two players who have rejected New Zealand contracts.
Tabraiz Shamsi's move to Kings was the last overseas move of the process.
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