PSL 2022: Cricket South Africa will not provide NOCs to its contracted player to play in PSL

Cricket South Africa notified that they will not provide NOCs to any centrally contracted player to participate in PSL 2022. Graeme Smith, the director of CSA has confirmed that this decision was taken to prioritize domestic cricket.

This means Marchant de Lange, Imran Tahir and Rilee Rossouw can still be part of PSL 2022. They are not centrally contracted by CSA. Moreover, they were picked in the last month's draft in Pakistan Super League.

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"It is true that contracted members of the proteas team had their NOCs for the Pakistan Super League refused due to the Proteas international schedule and domestic competitions which must always be prioritised," Graeme Smith told ESNPNcricinfo in an interview.

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With an away tour to New Zealand and a home tour against Bangladesh, our contracted players have to be available for their national team duties first and foremost. The same applies with regard to our domestic franchise tournaments which will be starting up soon", Smith went on to add.

"If and when opportunities in other international T20 tournaments arise and the timings and fixtures do not clash with our own, CSA will happily approve NOCs, as we have always done in the past."

Greame Smith told ESPNcricinfo.

Although, the final draft was to be finalised before the start of the 2022 season. Hence the Pakistan Cricket Board was waiting for the availability of the South African players to boost their campaign. However, they now had to draft new options to fulfil the vacant spots made by African players.

Newly drafted players in PSL 2022

Mohammad Huraira (Islamabad United) and Sahibzada Farhan (Karachi Kings) were the new recruits that happened due to this news. Meanwhile, Multan Sultans picked David Willey, Johnson Charles and Ben Dunk to fill their squad.

Along with that Shimron Hetmyer was the big pick of the new draft. The West Indian star was picked by Quetta Gladiator.