Drafts for the second season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL2) will be held in Dubai Sports City on Wednesday.

After a successful first edition of the PSL, the drafts process marks the beginning of PSL2.

The Lahore Qalandars will be the first team to choose players in the drafts, followed by the Karachi Kings, Peshawar Zalmi, Quetta Gladiators and Islamabad United.

The Lahore Qalandars are all set to pick ex-New Zealand Captain Brendan McCullum in the first pick, as they have already announced him as captain of the team in place of Azhar Ali.

PSL Chairman Najam Sethi speaking to DawnNews said that the drafts would be even more star-studded this year as compared to the previous year.

Although most team retained players from the first season of the PSL, the retention policy would be reviewed next year in order to give new players chance to be part of the drafts, he said.

Sethi said that although the opening ceremony will be in Dubai next year, the organisation will try to hold the closing ceremony and final in Lahore.

The PSL chairman announced that the PSL and Pakistan Cricket Board would separate companies starting next month, and that a majority of company directors would be hired from outside the PCB in order to keep the PSL free from the PCB's politics.

Sethi added that he would not be PSL chairman next year.