Most Expensive Players In PSL 2025 (Top Players)

PSL fans want to know about the most expensive players in PSL 2025 and how much they will earn in HBL PSL season 10. Many people compare the IPL and PSL. Top players receive a salary after the IPL auction 2025, but in PSL, the franchises pick payers in the draft order. You might be surprised to find out who will be the highest-paid player in PSL 2025. The Pakistan Cricket Board increased the salary for the upcoming season, and, secondly, the PSL 10 scheduling during the Indian Premier League 2025.

The most expensive players in PSL 10, like David Warner (Karachi Kings) and Babar Azam (Peshawar Zalmi), can expect to earn salaries of around US $300,000. If that is the case, then you are in the right place. Here, we described the categories of players in the Pakistan Super League and the salaries In Rupees and US Dollars.

Most Expensive Players in PSL 2025

David Warner (Karachi Kings): $300,000

Daryl Mitchell (Lahore Qalandars): $220,000

Babar Azam (Peshawar Zalmi): $220,000

Fakhar Zaman (Lahore Qalandars): $220,000

Shaheen Afridi (Lahore Qalandars): $220,000

Saim Ayub (Peshawar Zalmi): $220,000

Naseem Shah (Islamabad United): $220,000

Mohammad Rizwan (Multan Sultans): $220,000

Matthew Short (Islamabad United): $220,000

Shadab Khan (Islamabad United): $220,000

Michael Bracewell (Multan Sultans): $220,000

Usama Mir (Multan Sultans): $220,000

Tom Kohler-Cadmore (Peshawar Zalmi): $220,000

Faheem Ashraf (Quetta Gladiators): $220,000

Finn Allen (Quetta Gladiators): $220,000

Mark Chapman (Quetta Gladiators): $220,000

Adam Milne (Karachi Kings): $220,000

Abbas Afridi (Karachi Kings): $220,000

Most Expensive Players In PSL 2025 – Platinum Category

Players in the Platinum category of the Pakistan Super League 2025 are the highest-paid players category. Platinum players’ prices range from USD 130,000 to USD 170,000. Players in this category are the most expensive players in PSL 2025. The platinum category includes the world’s top players, including Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi, and David Warner.

In the PSL Platinum category, the maximum salary a player will receive is USD 170,000 (Approximately PKR 4.73 crore, INR 1.47 crore). Each team can select a maximum of three players in this category in the HBL PSL draft.

Platinum Category
Player	Team
Shadab Khan	Islamabad United
Naseem Shah
Matthew Short
Abbas Afridi	Karachi  Kings
Adam Milne
David Warner
Fakhar Zaman	Lahore Qalandars
Shaheen Shah Afridi
Rassie van der Dussen
Babar Azam	Peshawar Zalmi
Saim Ayub
Tom Kohler-Cadmore
Finn Allen	Quetta Gladiators
Mark Chapman
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Muhammad Rizwan	Multan Sultans
Usama Mir
Michel Bracewell

Most Expensive Players In PSL 2025 – Diamond Category

The Second most expensive category is the diamond category in the HBL PSL draft. In this category, players receive a salary of USD 85,000 (Approximately PKR 2.37 crore, INR 74 Lac). In this category, each franchise can pick a maximum of three players. Multan Sultans and Quetta Gladiators received one more additional pick in the Mini Draft of PSL 2025.

A total of twenty players were selected for the diamond category, the second most expensive category in the Pakistan Super League, with a salary range of US$60,000 to US$85,000.

Diamond Category
Player	Team
Imad Wasim	Islamabad United
Azam Khan
Jason Holder
James Vince	Karachi Kings
Hasan Ali
Khushdil Shah
Sikandar Raza	Lahore Qalandars
Daryl Mitchell
Haris Rauf
Muhammad Haris	Peshawar Zalmi
Carbin Bosch
Muhammad Ali
Abrar Ahmed	Quetta Gladiators
Mohammad Amir
Rilee Rossouw
David Willey	Multan Sultan
Iftikhar Ahmed
Usman Khan

Most Expensive Players In PSL 2025 – Gold Category

The gold category is the third highest-paid player of the HBL PSL 2025 draft. Each franchise can pick a maximum of three players from the Gold category, although Lahore Qalandars got an additional pick in the replacement round of the HBL PSL draft. In this category, a player will have a maximum salary of US$50,000 (Approx PKR 1.4 crore, INR 42 Lac ).

In the eighth edition of the Pakistan Super League, 19 players, including eight foreigners and fourteen locals, have been selected from this category. The salary range is from US$40000 to $50000 max for this category.

Gold Category
Player	Team
Haider Ali	Islamabad United
Salman Ali Agha
Benjamin Dwarshuis
Irfan Khan Niazi	Karachi Kings
Shan Masood
Aamer Jamal
Abdullah Shafiq	Lahore Qalandars
Zaman Khan
Jahandad Khan
Hussain Talat	Peshawar Zalmi
Nahid Rana
Abdul Samad
Akeal Hosien	Quetta Gladiators
Mohammad Wasim Jr
Saud Shakeel
Chris Jordan	Multan Sultans
Kamran Ghulam
Mohammad Hasnain

Supplementary Category

In the supplementary draft, each franchisee can select two players, with a maximum of one foreign and one local player for the Diamond, Gold, Silver, or Emerging categories. The salary range for this category is $50000.

Players in Supplementary Category

Most Expensive Players In PSL 2025 – Silver Category

Silver is in the 4th number. In this category, each player will receive a salary of USD 25,000, which is approximately PKR 70 lac or INR 21 lac. Most of the average players are included in this category. In the silver category, 40 players were chosen, of which 13 were foreigners and 27 were locals.

Players in the Silver Category

Silver Category
Player	Team
Colin Munro	Islamabad United
Rumman Raees
Andries Gous
Mohammad Nawaz
Salaman Irshad
Arafat Minhas	Karachi Kings
Tim Seifert
Zahid Mehmood
Litton Das
Mir Hamza
David Wiese	Lahore Qalandars
Asif Afridi
Asif Ali
Mohammad Ikhlaq
Rishad Hossain
Arif Yaqoob	Peshawar Zalmi
Mehran Mumtaz
Sufyan Moqim
Max Bryant
Najibullah Zardan
Faheem Ashraf	Quetta Gladiators
Khawja Nafay
Usman Tariq
Najibullah Khan
Khurrum Shehzad
Faisal Akram	Multan Sultans
Akif Javed
Gudakesh Motie
Josh Little
Tayyab Tahir

Emerging Category

This is the last category in the 2025 PSL for emerging players. Every player in the emerging category will have a salary of USD 7,500 (Approximately PKR 21 lac, INR 6 lac ). This category was made to show off the talent of Pakistani players on the international platform and give them a chance to get succeed. 

Each team or franchise will have a maximum of two players in the emerging category. A total of 16 players were selected in this category.

Players List in Emerging Category

Emerging Category
Player	Team
Hunain Shah	Islamabad United
Saad Masood
Fawad Ali	Karachi Kings
Riazullah
Momin Qamar	Lahore Qalandars
Muhammad Azab
Ali Raza	Peshawar Zalmi
Maaz Sadaqat
Kyle Jamieson	Quetta Gladiators
Hasan Nawaz
Shahid Aziz	Multan Sultans
Ubaid Shah

Top Paid PSL Players

Shadab Khan, Babar Azam, Saim Ayub, Muhammad Rizwan, Usama Mir, Naseem Shah, Fakhar Zaman, Shaheen Afridi, Daryl Mitchell, Michael Bracewell, Matthew Short, Finn Allen, Mark Chapman, Abbas Afridi, David Warner, Adam Milne, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, and Rilee Rossouw are all the top-paid players in the PSL 2025, with a maximum salary of 170k USD. These players are in the Platinum category. 

Each franchise can pick 3 players from the platinum category. The salary range for this category is 130,000 to 170,000 USD.