Pakistan Super League has revealed the list of retained players by all 6 PSL teams ahead of players draft on 20 November 2018. A total of 51 players from previous season were retained by respective team franchises. Islamabad United was the only team to retain a maximum of 10 cricketers from 2018 PSL squad.
Country’s sensation all-rounder Shahid Afridi was released by Karachi Kings. The complete list of retained players for Pakistan Super League 2019 is disclosed below along with their categories platinum, diamond, gold, silver and emerging.
Retained Players List for PSL-4
| TEAM/CATEGORY | Platinum | Diamond | Gold | Silver | Emerging |
| Islamabad United (10) | Luke Ronchi | Asif Ali | Rumman Raees | Hussain Talat | – |
| Shadab Khan | Mohammed Sami | – | Waqas Maqsood | – | |
| Faheem Ashraf | – | – | Sahibzada Farhan | – | |
| – | – | – | Zafar Gohar | – | |
| Karachi Kings (8) | Colin Munro | Colin Ingram | Mohammad Rizwan | – | – |
| Mohammad Amir | Imad Wasim | Ravi Bopara | – | – | |
| Babar Azam | Usman Shinwari | – | – | – | |
| Lahore Qalandars (8) | Fakhar Zaman | Yasir Shah | Shaheen Shah Afridi | Agha Salman | – |
| – | – | Anton Devcich | Sohail Akhtar | – | |
| – | – | Rahat Ali | Hassan Khan | – | |
| Peshawar Zalmi (8) | Wahab Riaz | Daren Sammy | Liam Dawson | Umaid Asif | Sameen Gul |
| Hasan Ali | Kamran Akmal | – | Khalid Usman | – | |
| Quetta Gladiators (9) | Sarfaraz Ahmed | Shane Watson | Rilee Rossouw | Anwar Ali | – |
| Sunil Narine | Sohail Tanvir | Umar Akmal | Saud Shakil | – | |
| – | Mohammad Nawaz | – | – | – | |
| The Sixth Team (8) | Shoaib Malik | Junaid Khan | Shan Masood | Mohammad Abbas | Mohammad Junaid |
| – | Mohammad Irfan | – | M. Irfan Khan | – | |
| – | – | – | Umar Siddiq | – |