Islamabad United, a PSL team, announced on Saturday that top pacer Naseem Shah has joined the two-time winners in a significant trade. Naeem Shah Joins Islamabad United For PSl. The cricket community was talking about Naseem, a member of the Quetta Gladiators, and every PSL team was interested in signing the 20-year-old following rumors that he had chosen to leave Quetta. United’s Abrar Ahmed and Muhammad Wasim Jr. relocated to Quetta Gladiators in the interim.
Naeem Shah Joins Islamabad United For PSL
Strong rumours suggested that Naseem would end up playing for Peshawar Zalmi or Multan Sultans, who had just acquired Iftikhar Ahmed in a trade deal. However, Islamabad emerged victorious in the competition to sign the pacer.
Even though the highly anticipated PSL 9 draft is still 11 days away, Islamabad has already selected two of the top players in the shorter format.In a trade that saw pacer Hasan Ali join Karachi Kings, Imad Wasim joined the United family. The left-handed all-rounder finished with 404 runs and nine wickets in ten matches to win PSL 8 Player of the Tournament.
Islamabad is gradually emerging as one of the favorites for the forthcoming season thanks to some of the best all-around players in the world, including Shadab Khan and Faheem Ashraf, and hard-hitters like Rahmanullah Gurbaz of Afghanistan, Azam Khan and Asif Ali of Pakistan.
Prior to this, Iftikhar Ahmed and Rilee Rossouw made a significant trade for Multan Sultans. Iftikhar, who has previously played for Islamabad United, Karachi Kings, and Peshawar Zalmi, will don the Sultans’ uniform in 2019 and become the league’s first player to represent five different teams.
Multan now has the first platinum pick in the PSL 9 Draft, which is set to take place in Lahore on December 13th, thanks to the historic trade. Rossouw rejoined Quetta, the team with which he won the PSL trophy in 2019 and was also the second top-scorer by scoring 39 runs in the final against Peshawar Zalmi.
