GT20 Canada will be back after a gap of four years with its third edition starting on July 20 in Brampton, Canada. Six teams will feature in the tournament which will span 18 days and 25 matches.

The player draft for the tournament took place on June 14 in Mumbai with representatives from each franchise attending the event, some physically and some virtually.

The likes of Yuvraj Singh, Chris Gayle, Lasith Malinga and other T20 superstars have participated in the previous two seasons of the tournament. This season will see another set of star-studded rosters with the likes of Harbhajan Singh, Shahid Afridi, Andre Russell, and other greats of the game being picked in the player draft.

GT20 Canada 2023: Player Draft Rules

Each team came into the player draft with a purse of US$ 579,500. The squad limit was set at 16 players for each team, with further constraints towards the number of marquee players.

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Each team could have six international players including two marquee stars, four players from Associate Nations, and six Canadians.

With Canada regaining its ODI status earlier this year, this tournament will go a long way in providing a platform for Canadian cricketers to lock horns with international stars, improve their games, and take Canadian cricket forward.

Global T20 Canada 2023 Squad: Full team lists and marquee players

Brampton Wolves: Harbhajan Singh, Colin De Grandhomme, Tim Southee, Mark Sinclair Chapman, Usama Mir, Hussain Talat, Usman Khan, Logan Van Beek, Jan Nicolaas Frylinck, Max O Dowd, Jeremy Gordon, Aaron Johnson, Rizwan Cheema, Shahid Ahmadzai, Rishiv Joshi, Gurpal Singh Sandhu. Coach: Shane Bond

Montreal Tigers: Andre Russell, Shakib Al Hasan, Chris Lynn, Sherfane Rutherford, Carlos Brathwaite, Muhammad Abbas Afridi, Zahir Khan, Muhammad Waseem, Akif Raja, Aayan Khan, Dipendra Airee, Kaleem Sana, Srimantha Wijeratne, Matthew Spoors, Bhupendra Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Anoop Chima. Coach: Dav Whatmore

Mississauga Panthers: Shoaib Malik, Chris Gayle, Azam Khan, James Neesham, Cameron Scott Delport, Shahnawaz Dahani, Zahoor Khan, Tom Cooper, Cecil Pervez, Jaskarandeep Singh Buttar, Navneet Dhaliwal, Nikhil Dutta, Shreyas Movva, Praveen Kumar, Mihir Patel, Ethan Gibson. Coach: Lance Klusener

Surrey Jaguars: Alex Hales, Iftikhar Ahmed, Jason Behrendorff, Litton Kumar Das, Karim Janat, Mohammad Haris, Sheel Patel, Sandeep Lamichhane, Jatinder Singh, Ayaan Khan, Bernard Scholtz, Pargat Singh, Dilon Heyliger, Ammar Khalid, Sunny Matharu, Kairav Sharma. Coach: Lalchand Rajput

Toronto Nationals: Colin Munro, Shahid Afridi, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Zaman Khan, Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Hamza Tariq, Gerhard Erasmus, JJ Smit,  Saad Bin Zafar, Farhan Malik, Nicholas Kirton, Armaan Kapoor, Sarmad Anwar, Rommel Shahzad, Udhaya Bhagwan. Coach: Aaqib Javed

Vancouver Knights: Mohammad Rizwan, Rassie van der Dussen, Naveen-ul-Haq, Reeza Hendricks, Corbin Bosch, Najibullah Zadran, Junaid Siddiqui, Vriitya Aravind, Karthik Meiyappan, Ruben Trumpelmann, Ravinderpal Singh, Harsh Thaker, Rayyan Pathan, Muhammad Kamal, Nawab Singh, Kanwar Tathgur. Coach: Donovan Miller