| 2021 KPL Draft | |
| Sport: | Cricket |
| League: | Kashmir Premier League |
| Teams: | 6 |
| Date: | 3 July 2021 |
| Location: | Tulip Banquet Hall Islamabad, Pakistan |
| First: | Herschelle Gibbs, Overseas Warriors |
| Next: | 2022 |
The players draft for the 2021 Kashmir Premier League took place on 3 July 2021 at the Tulip Banquet Hall in Islamabad.[1] A total of 413 players signed up for the KPL. The players were divided into 7 categories: Icon, Overseas, Platinum, Diamond, Gold, Silver and Emerging.[2] The emerging category was further divided into Overseas Kashmiris, Local Kashmiris and Non-Kashmiris.[3] Each team chose 1 Icon player, 1 Overseas player, 1 Platinum player, 2 Diamond players, 2 Gold players, 3 Silver players and 5 Emerging players. Many people attended the draft including Chairman of the Kashmir Committee Shehryar Khan Afridi, Senator Faisal Javed, President of the KPL: Arif Malik and CEO of the KPL: Chaudhary Shahzad Akhtar.[4]
| Country | Number of Players | |
|---|---|---|
 | 364 | |
| 25 | ||
| 9 | ||
| 3 | ||
 | 2 | |
 | 2 | |
 | 1 | |
| 1 | ||
 | 1 | |
 | 1 | |
| 1 | ||
 | 1 | |
 | 1 | |
| 1 | ||
| Total | 413 |
Herschelle Gibbs was the first player to be picked in the draft.[5] Shan Masood was the first non-foreign player to be picked in the draft. The icon players had already been signed prior to the draft.
[6]The following is the summary of the teams.
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| Silver |
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| Emerging |
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| Players | Pre-Draft Category |
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| Asad Shafiq | Platinum |
| Usman Shinwari | |
| Aamer Yamin | Gold |
| Agha Salman | |
| Kamran Ghulam | |
| Sameen Gul | |
| Umar Amin | |
| Adil Amin | Silver |
| Ahsan Ali | |
| Asif Afridi | |
| Hasan Khan | |
| Kashif Bhatti | |
| Khurram Shahzad | |
| Mohammad Haris | |
| Saif Badar | |
| Basit Ali | Emerging |
| Faizan Saleem | |
| Malik Nisar | |
| Mujtaba Ghayyas | |
| Nadeem Khalil | |
| Najeebullah Afridi | |
| Raja Farhan Khan | |
| Raja Shahzad | |
| Usman Yousuf | |