The highly anticipated Pakistan Super League (PSL 2025) is knocking on the doors. From tomorrow, April 11, the tournament is scheduled to commence. The first match will be between Islamabad United and Lahore Qalandars (LAH). Following a grand ceremony, the season's first match, Game 1, is scheduled to be hosted from 9 PM at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. Eyes will be on Qalandars, as they are the former champion side, and this time too, they have embraced their squad with some seriously talented players. In this article, we'll break down the QL squad, and from there we can anticipate which players from the squads have the capability to make some impact on the tournament.

Lahore Qalandars is built around star players like Fakhar Zaman, Shaheen Afridi, Daryl Mitchell, and Haris Rauf. Along with them, there are some exciting, underrated players and experienced T20 campaigners like David Wiese. From the squad we can clearly see LAH managed to try their level best to offer sustainability in the squad, which is a much-needed element for a wannabe successful team.

Lahore Qalandars full squad

Fakhar Zaman, Shaheen Afridi, Daryl Mitchell, Haris Rauf, Sikandar Raza, Kusal Perera, Abdullah Shafique, Jahandad Khan, Zaman Khan, David Wiese, Asif Afridi, Asif Ali Mohammad Akhlaq, Rishad Hossain, Muhammad Naeem, Salman Ali Mirza, Tom Curran, Momin Qamar, and Muhammad Azab.

There are mainly 6 categories in which the players are divided:

• Platinum
• Diamond
• Gold
• Silver
• Emerging
• Supplementary

Category	Players
Platinum	Daryl Mitchell (NZ)
Diamond	Kusal Perera (SL)
Silver	Asif Afridi (PAK)
Silver	Asif Ali (PAK)
Silver	Mohammad Akhlaq (PAK)
Emerging	Momin Qamar (PAK)
Supplementary	Sam Billings (ENG)
Supplementary	Tom Curran (ENG)

Key players to watch:

Undoubtedly the squad is good and balanced. But every successful team needs someone who can make the difference. Lahore Qalandars has multiple players who have the capability to do this, like

• Fakhar Zaman
• Shaheen Afridi
• Daryl Mitchell
• Haris Rauf
• Sikandar Raza
• Kusal Perera
• Abdullah Shafique
• Tom Curran