Birmingham Phoenix secured Naseem Shah for £125,000
Pakistani pace bowler Naseem Shah has risen to prominence as one of the most expensive signings in England’s Cricket ‘The Hundred’ Players Draft.
Birmingham Phoenix secured Naseem Shah for £125,000, marking him as the first Pakistani player to command such a high price tag of GBP 125,000. Converted to Pakistani currency, his earnings amount to around 4.5 crore rupees.
65 Pakistani players have been registered in the players’ draft held on March 20 for the fourth edition of ‘The Hundred’, including 60 men and five women while only two Pakistani players have been retained by their teams in the squad. Manchester Original have Usama Mir and Welsh Fire have retained Haris Rauf.
Additionally, Pakistan’s Hasan Ali , Imad Wasim and Shaheen Shah Afridi are also among 100000GBP club of The Hundred.
Among Pakistani players, the reserve price of Shadab Khan and Iftikhar Ahmed is GBP 75,000, the base price of Muhammad Amir, Saim Ayub, Aamir Jamal and Abdullah Shafiq is GBP 60,000, while the reserve price of Fakhar Zaman, Muhammad Haris and Imad Wasim in the draft is GBP 50,000.