{"id":47917,"date":"2018-11-21T11:07:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T11:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=47917"},"modified":"2018-11-21T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T11:07:56","slug":"psl-2019-ab-de-villiers-emerges-as-top-pick-in-first-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/psl-2019-ab-de-villiers-emerges-as-top-pick-in-first-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"PSL 2019: AB de Villiers emerges as top pick in first draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former South African skipper AB de Villiers has emerged has the top pick in the first player draft of the upcoming fourth edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL).<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old, who is currently playing in the Mzansi Super League, was picked up by Lahore Qalandars in the Platinum category.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former Australian skipper Steve Smith transpired as the second pick of the first draft after being selected by a yet-to-be-named team, which was previously called Multan Sultan, in the Platinum category.<\/p>\n<p>The other notable selections in the first draft include former Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi, who will join Smith in the yet-to-be-named team in the Platinum category.<\/p>\n<p>While former Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq was picked up by Peshawar Zalmi in the Diamond category, New Zealand all-rounder Corey Anderson was selected by Lahore Qalandars in the same category.<\/p>\n<p>West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo was picked by Quetta Gladiators in the Platinum category while his fellow countryman Kieron Pollard was selected in the same category by Peshawar Zalmi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former South African skipper AB de Villiers has emerged has the top pick in the first player draft of the upcoming fourth edition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47919,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47917\/revisions\/47919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}