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Lanka Premier League 2023 will be played between July 30 and August 20, 2023. Here are LPL 2023 overseas players for all five teams.
Each of the five teams at LPL 2023 – Colombo Strikers, Dambulla Aura, Galle Titans, Jaffna Kings, and B-Love Kandy – will play every other team twice each in the league stage, between July 30 and August 15.
The top four teams will qualify for the playoffs, which will be played on August 17 (Qualifier 1 and Eliminator), August 19 (Qualifier 2), and August 20 (final). The final also has a reserve day, on August 21.
The five teams have signed up six overseas cricketers each, taking the count to 30. Of them, Colombo Strikers have appointed Babar Azam as captain. Babar is the only overseas captain of LPL 2023.
The overseas contingent is dominated by the 13 Pakistanis. Other than Babar, the list includes stars like Shoaib Malik, Naseem Shah, Fakhar Zaman, Iftikhar Ahmed, and Wahab Riaz.
The others are Noor Ahmad, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, and Mujeeb Ur Rahman of Afghanistan; Matthew Wade, Hayden Kerr, ALex Ross, and Chris Lynn of Australia; Shakib Al Hasan and Mohammad Mithun of Bangladesh; Tim Seifert of New Zealand; Lungi Ngidi, David Miller, Tabraiz Shamsi, Chad Bowes, and Hardus Viljoen of South Africa; and Lorcan Tucker of Ireland.
LPL 2023 squads: Click here for full squads of Colombo Strikers, Dambulla Aura, Galle Titans, Jaffna Kings, and B-Love Kandy
Lanka Premier League 2023 squads: Full list of overseas players featuring in LPL 2023
Colombo Strikers: Ireland – Lorcan Tucker. Pakistan – Babar Azam (captain), Naseem Shah, Wahab Riaz, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz.
Dambulla Aura: Afghanistan – Noor Ahmad. Australia – Matthew Wade, Hayden Kerr, Alex Ross. Pakistan – Shahnawaz Dahani. South Africa – Lungi Ngidi.
Galle Titans: Australia – Ben Cutting. Bangladesh – Shakib Al Hasan, Mohammad Mithun. New Zealand – Tim Seifert. South Africa – Tabraiz Shamsi, Chad Bowes.
Jaffna Kings: Afghanistan – Rahmanullah Gurbaz. Australia – Chris Lynn. Pakistan – Shoaib Malik, Zaman Khan. South Africa – David Miller, Hardus Viljoen.
B-Love Kandy: Afghanistan – Mujeeb Ur Rahman. Pakistan – Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Haris, Asif Ali, Mohammad Hasnain, Aamer Jamal.
