30 Foreign Players will be part of the Lanka Premier League 2023 with 20 players were picked in the auction held last yesterday along with the 10 pre signed players.
Pakistan players dominated the League with 13 players.
- 13 Pakistan Players
Babar Azam – Colombo
Naseem Shah – Colombo
Iftikhar Ahmed – Colombo
Wahab Riaz – Colombo
Mohammad Nawaz – Colombo
Fakhar Zaman – Kandy
Mohammad Hasnain – Kandy
Asif Ali – Kandy
Mohamed Haris – Kandy
Aamer Jamal – Kandy
Shinwar Dahani – Dambulla
Shoaib Malik – Jaffna
Zaman Khan – Jaffna
- Five Australian Players
Mathew Wade – Dambulla
Henry Kerr – Dambulla
Alex Ross – Dambulla
Chris Lynn – Australia
Ben Cutting – Australia
- Four South African Players
Hardus Viljoen – Jaffna
David Miller – Jaffna
Lungi Ngini – Dambulla
Tabraiz Shamsi – Galle
- Three Afghanistan Players
Noor Ahamed – Dambulla
Mujeeb ur Rahman – Kandy
Rahmanullah Gurbaz – Jaffna
- Two New Zealand Players
Chad Bowes – Galle
Tim Seifert – Galle
- Three Bangladesh Players
Shakib Al Hassan
Mohamed Mithun
- One Ireland player
Lordan Tucker – Colombo