| Club: | Lahore Qalandars |
| Season: | 2018 |
| Coach: | Aaqib Javed |
| Captain: | Brendon McCullum |
| Comp1: | PSL 2018 |
| Comp1 Result: | 6th |
| Most Runs: | Fakhar Zaman (277)[1] |
| Most Wickets: | Yasir Shah (11)[2] |
| Prevseason: | 2017 |
| Nextseason: | 2019 |
The Lahore Qalandars cricket team is one of six teams that competed in the 2018 Pakistan Super League, representing Lahore, Punjab.
Team management retained Brendon McCullum as their captain.[3] They finished sixth in the season after winning only three of their ten matches, and as a result, were eliminated in the group stage for the third consecutive year.[4]
| No. | Name | Nationality | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Year signed | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batsmen | ||||||||
| 12 | Cameron Delport | February 22, 2018 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | 2018 | Overseas | ||
| 39 | Fakhar Zaman | February 22, 2018 | Left-handed | Left-arm orthodox spin | 2018 | Vice-captain | ||
| 42 | Brendon McCullum | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2018 | Captain
| ||
| 50 | Chris Lynn | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2018 | Overseas | ||
| 100 | Sohail Akhtar | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2018 | |||
| All-rounders | ||||||||
| 24 | Agha Salman | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2018 | |||
| 29 | Anton Devcich | February 22, 2018 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2018 | Overseas | ||
| 31 | Bilal Asif | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2018 | |||
| 35 | Aamer Yamin | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2017 | |||
| 51 | Bilawal Bhatti | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | 2018 | |||
| 66 | Angelo Mathews | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2018 | Overseas | ||
| 75 | Sunil Narine | February 22, 2018 | Left-handed | Right-arm off spin | 2018 | Overseas | ||
| Wicket-keepers | ||||||||
| 15 | Gulraiz Sadaf | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | — | 2018 | |||
| 33 | Denesh Ramdin | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | — | 2018 | Overseas | ||
| 96 | Umar Akmal | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Right-arm off spin | 2018 | |||
| Bowlers | ||||||||
| 10 | Shaheen Afridi | February 22, 2018 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast | 2018 | |||
| 14 | Sohail Khan | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | 2018 | |||
| 21 | Ghulam Mudassar | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | 2018 | |||
| 57 | Kyle Abbott | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | 2018 | Overseas | ||
| 64 | Imran Khan | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | 2018 | |||
| 81 | Mitchell McClenaghan | February 22, 2018 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | 2018 | Overseas | ||
| 86 | Yasir Shah | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | 2018 | |||
| 90 | Mustafizur Rahman | February 22, 2018 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast | 2018 | Overseas | ||
| 99 | Salman Irshad | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | 2018 | |||
| 888 | Raza Hasan | February 22, 2018 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2018 | |||
Before, 2018 PSL players draft, team management had to retain maximum of ten players in their squad, and they retained Sunil Narine, Umar Akmal, Brendon McCullum, Yasir Shah, Sohail Khan, Cameron Delport, Aamer Yamin, Bilawal Bhatti and previous season's leading runs-scorer for the team Fakhar Zaman. Ghulam Mudassar was retained as team's emerging player.[3]
At the players draft, held in Lahore, they managed to picked some good local and International players in their squad. Australia's Explosive opener, Chris Lynn was their first pick of the night, along with Angelo Mathews, Mitchell McClenaghan and Mustafizur Rahman and Pakistani players like Shaheen Afridi and Bilal Asif were also picked.[5] [6] However, few days before the season started, it was announced that Chris Lynn has suffered a shoulder injury, therefore, he was unavailable for the entire season.[7] He was replaced by South Africa's Kyle Abbott.[8]