Afridi is released by Nagenahira in SLPL

According to SLC sources, Shahid Afridi who was originally supposed to be the icon player for Nagenahira but he was released by Nagenahira due to all the franchises wanted to make sure their icon players were available throughout the tournament.

 As the recently announced Australia-Pakistan series that starts on August 28th, Afridi would potentially miss the semi-finals and finals of the SLPL if his team made it that far, leaving Nagenahira without their icon player at the business end of the tournament. With the agreement of the other franchises, Afridi was released by Naganahira in to the draft.Sahid Afridi was then drafted to Ruhuna side where Lasith Malinga was named as the icon player.