The Afghanistan premier league will start from October, at Sharja. The player draft held in Dubai saw team Paktia bag Pakistani superstar shahid afridi as an iconic player.
The tournament includes 5 teams, Balkh, Paktia, Nangarhar, Kandahar and Kabul. The sum of 23 matches will be played I between the teams to select the champion of the inaugural edition of league.
Team Kandahar picked up Wahab Riaz as a diamond player for $75000.
The Pakistani team will be busy in playing matches against Australia in UAE; Faheem Ashraf will miss number of matches of APL. As the t20 series is starting from 24 f October, that means that Muhammad hafeez and Mohammad nawaz will be available to play all the matches for their teams.