The list includes names such as India’s Piyush Chawla for the first time, Ravi Bopara, Johnson Charles, and Paul Stirling.
Others, such as Ryan Burl, Bas de Leede, Sandeep Lamichhane, George Munsey, Salman Ali Agha, Wayne Parnell, and Niroshan Dickwella, have also entered the auction.
Sri Lanka has the highest number of players, 50, in this year's auction. Pakistan has 45, India 3, Ireland 6, and Afghanistan 18.
Additionally, 54 players from the United Kingdom have submitted their names.
Ahead of the auction, each franchise is allowed to sign at least one and at most two foreign players directly.
They must buy at least two overseas players from the auction. For a total of four foreign cricketers, each team is allowed to spend USD 350,000. After the auction, franchises are free to sign more overseas players if they wish.
Because the ILT20 and SA20 tournaments will run at the same time, this flexible system has been introduced. As a result, teams can bring in star players even if it’s for only a few matches. The 250 overseas players have been divided into five categories: Category A has a base price of USD 35,000.
Categories B, C, D, and E have base prices of 25,000, 20,000, 15,000, and 15,000 respectively. The bid increments are USD 5,000, 3,000, 2,000, 1,500, and 1,000, depending on the category.
Cricketers who are listed in different categories for the BPL auction—
Category A
Johnson Charles, Keacy Carty, Keemo Paul, Dominic Drakes, Abdul Samad, Zaman Khan, Mohammad Hasnain, Usama Mir, Shoaib Malik, Avishka Fernando, Dasun Shanaka, Angelo Mathews, Henry Munsey, George Dockrell, Ollie Robinson, Adam Lyth, Bas de Leede, Tom Hartley, Wayne Parnell, Shan Masood, Sam Cook, Salman Ali Agha, Jake Ball, Dinesh Chandimal, Lahiru Kumara, Binura Fernando, Niroshan Dickwella, Chamika Karunaratne, Jeffrey Vandersay, Dunith Wellalage, Dushmantha Chameera, Kamindu Mendis, Dhananjaya de Silva, Maheesh Theekshana, Matheesha Pathirana, Charith Asalanka, Mohammad Wasim, Mohammad Haris, Piyush Chawla, Aamer Jamal.
Category B
Sandeep Lamichhane, Asif Ali, Salman Mirza, Richard Ngarava, Scott Edwards, Oshane Thomas, Matt Critchley, Ajeet Dale, Harry Tector, Ali Khan, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Isuru Udana, Saud Shakeel, Ravi Bopara, Dushan Hemantha, Sami Patel, Adam Rossington, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Milan Rathnayake, Najibullah Zadran.
Category C
Ali Raza, Jahandad Khan, Haider Ali, Terrance Hinds, Sean Williams, Samiullah Shinwari, James Fuller, Lahiru Milantha, Khurram Shahzad, William Bosisto, Dilshan Munaweera, Pramod Madushan, Ashen Bandara, Mohamed Shiraz, Abdullah Shafique, Kai Smith, Kennar Lewis, Raymon Reifer, Shamar Springer, Chadwick Walton, Izharulhaq Naveed, Lakshan Sandakan, Ross Whiteley, Joshua Davey, Alex Davies, Angelo Perera, Amir Hamza, Aryan Dutt, Joshua Da Silva, Zafar Gohar, Josh Little, Zubayr Hamza, Dane Paterson, Ruwantha Kellaptha, Bilawal Bhatti, Pat Brown, Saif Zaib, Jon-Jon Smuts, Kasun Rajitha, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, Lahiru Udara, Nangeyalia Khan, Zubairullah Akbari, Innocent Kaia, Alick Athanaze, Aaron Jones, Vishen Halambage, Akila Dananjaya, Ihsanullah Khan, Zahir Khan, Chris Greaves, Md Arif Hossain, Sheldon Cottrell, Jack Taylor, Ryan Burl, Hamza Tariq, Curtis Campher, Paul Stirling, Karima Gore, Navin Bidaisee.
Category D
Mehran Mumtaz, Usman Qadir, Jack Blatherwick, Mir Hamza, Brian Bennett, Lachlan Bangs, Muhammad Ali Dazy, Irfan Khan Niazi, Kashif Ali, Dipendra Singh Airee, Chamindu Wickramasinghe, Shevon Daniel, Basil Hameed, Matthew Humphreys, Peter Hatzoglou, Hayden Walsh, Jack Haynes, Callum Parkinson, Brooke Guest, Mohammad Saleem Safi, Brad Evans, Arif Yaqoob, Ahmed Daniyal, Matiullah Khan, Mark Watt.
Category E
Nimesh Vimukthi, Sangeeth Cooray, Thanuka Dabare, Joshua Bishop, Kadeem Alleyne, Asif Sheikh, Asad Raza, Tayyab Abbas, Feroze Khushi, Gulshan Jha, Ammad Butt, Ammad Alam, Yasir Khan, Muhammad Akhlaq, Muhammad Zeeshan, Muhammad Imran Junior, Zain ul Hassan, Mamoon Imtiaz, Ravindu Fernando, Sompal Kami, Rumman Raees, Mirza Saad Baig, Arafat Minhas, Tayyab Tahir, Faraz Akram, Isitha Wijesundara, Dulaj Samuditha, Khalil Gurbaz, Muditha Lakshan, Sonal Dinusha, Sachitha Jayathilaka, Salman Fayyaz, Nishan Peiris, Mohammed Shiraz, Mohammed Dilshad, Kavishka Anjula, Aakarshit Gomel, Wafiullah Tarakhil, Barkat Ibrahimzai, Archie Lenham, Kimani Melius, Zak Tribe, Javelle Glenn, Ronsford Beaton, Ashmead Nedd, Kevin Wickham, Ryshon Williams, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Shaqkere Parris, Jordan Johnson, Nathan Edward, Jack Davies, Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Tazeem Ali, Hilal Afghan, Mohammad Ishaq, Johnathan Campbell, Aryan Saxena, Ibrahim Masood, Ziaur Rahman, Zia Ur Rahman Sharifi, Sohan De Livera, Ruan de Swardt, Mthi Nabe, Gavin Kaplan, Johannes van Dyk, Jair McAllister, Kemol Savory, Ben Charlesworth, Farhan Ahmed, Ben Mike, Matthew Hurst, Kavindu Nirmana, Ravindu Rathnayake, James Wharton, Hanu Viljoen, Luc Benkenstein, Emilio Gay, Joe Weatherley, Brad Wheal, Louis Kimber, Will Luxton, Ben Green, Pavan Rathnayake, Lucky Ntleko, Benjamin Curran, Dominic Sibley, Garnett Tarr, Solomon Budinger, Dillon Pennington, Edward Middleton, Jamal Richards, Jasper Davidson, Joey Evison, Edward Barnard, Joshua Shaw, Zak Chappell, Jack Jarvis.
