Franchises pick players in SKL-1 draft at Lahore
Drafting of players for the first edition of Super Kabaddi League has completed in Lahore.
Strawberry Sports Management Company has announced the team and players names that participating in the first edition of Super Kabaddi League 2018. Every team has picked 10 local players each that includes 2 players in platinum category, 7 players in gold category and 1 foreign player.
The event was held in collaboration with Strawberry Sports Management Company and Pakistan Kabaddi Federation. Drafting was completed in a local hotel at Lahore where official kits of the teams were also unveiled in a ceremony. Around 125 players were named in the initial drafting where team officials of SKL-1 have picked 100 players out of them. 10 international and 90 local players will be seen in action from May 2 to 10 at Lahore.
10 international players were picked for the first edition of SKL that includes 5 Iranian, 2 each from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and 1 Malaysian player. Founder of Super Kabaddi League, Haider Ali Dawood was off the view that SKL will not only benefit players and coaches financially but it will also help to unveil new talent for Pakistan.
Coaches were also announced throw ballot before the start of players drafting. Tournament Anthem was also released before the players drafting.
Following are the teams and their coaches:
| Teams | Coaches |
| Peshawar Haiders | Zahid Rasheed |
| Faisalabad Sherdils | Mubashir Iqbal |
| Gujrat Warriors | Rahat Maqsood |
| Gwadar Bahadurs | Badshah Ali Gul |
| Islamabad All Stars | Saifullah |
| Lahore Thunder | Iqrar Hussain |
| Karachi Zorawars | Ghulam Muhammad |
| Multan Sikandar | Ghulam Ali Butt |
| Sahiwal Bulls | Muhammad Shafiq |
| Kashmir Janbaaz | Adnan Afzal |
Following are the squads of SKL-1 teams:
| Peshawar Haiders | Faisalabad Sherdils | Gujrat Warriors | Gwadar Bahadurs | Islamabad All Stars | Lahore Thunder | Karachi Zorawars | Multan Sikandar | Sahiwal Bulls | Kashmir Janbaaz |
| Ikhlaq Hussain | Nasir Ali | M. Imran | Abrar Hussain | M. Rizwan | Mudassir Shah | M. Nadeem | Waseem Sajjad | M. Nasir | Kashif Razzak |
| Usman Zada | Abrar Khan | Tehseen Ullah | Ali Shan | M. Arshad | M. Sufyan | Wajid Ali | Arslan Ahmed | Sajjad Shaukat | Atif Waheed |
| Qaisar Abbas | Azam Shah | Waqar Ali | Waqas Aslam | Zahid Nawaz | Ahsan Mahmood | M. Mushahid | Sabir Ali | Waqas Ali | Saddam Hussain |
| Subhan Aslam | Haider Ali | Dildar Ahmed | Rehman Ali | Hassan Raza | Atif Sohail | Abdul Manan | Abdul Mukhtar | Hassan Ali | Muzamil Hussain |
| Usman Khalid | Rashid Mehboob | Muhammad Tariq | Adil Hussain | Muhammad Shahid Iqbal | M. Afzal | Muhammad Saleem | Waqas Hussain | Amir Mehmood | Sajjad Ahmad |
| Muhammad yousuf | Sharafat Ali | Rai Mubashir Ali | Shoaib Mumtaz | Muhammad Zeeshan | Muhammad Ali | Shair Ahmed | Junaid Sarwar | Afzal Ali | Asim Hanif |
| Muhammad Yasin | Abid Hussain | Asad Ali | Ijaz Masih | Faisal Nadeem | M. Mujahid | Abbas Ali | Muhammad Aqeel | Muhammad Faizan Riaz | Tariq Munir |
| Abdul Rehman | Ahmed | Sabir Ullah | Bilal Khan | Zain Ali | M. Abid | Saif-ul-Malook | Muhammad Mustafa Bijli | Abid Hussain | Tauheed Shafa |
| Imran Ali | Wasim Akram | Saifullah | Shahbaz Ali | Asif Jajja | Mazhar Iqbal | Adeel Azam | Amjad Ali | Rafique | Sherman Ali |
| Milad Sherhak | Ranidu Chamara | Muhammad Babar | APG Malinda | Farhad Naghi | Murtaza Jalamaderah | Masood Karim | Jabaer Himati | Sabuj | Mugilian Batumalai |
