Haris Rauf is among the 10 marquee players whose names will be called out first at next week’s inaugural men’s Hundred auction, with 14 Pakistan players on the longlist for bids.
The ECB and the eight franchises released a joint statement last week committing to selection being based on “performance, availability, and the needs of each team”.
It came in response to a report from the BBC that the four teams who are part or fully owned by IPL franchises would enforce a “shadow ban” on Pakistani players, refusing to bid for them for geopolitical reasons.
The men’s longlist released by the ECB last month featured 63 Pakistani players among the 710 names who registered for the auction, and teams were asked to submit a list of around 75-100 players that they were most interested in signing by the end of last week.
The longlist was then trimmed to 243 men’s players, and has since been circulated to teams and seen by ESPNcricinfo. It includes 14 Pakistan players: Rauf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shadab Khan, Usman Tariq, Saim Ayub, Abrar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah, Mohammad Amir, Zaman Khan, Usama Mir, Imad Wasim, Akif Javed and Salman Mirza.
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