Chris Gayle, Faf du Plessis, Shahid Afridi and Carlos Brathwaite were among 23 star international players named on Tuesday for the twice-postponed Lanka Premier League (LPL) which is set to begin next month.
Each of the five LPL teams is allowed up to six foreign players and they have until November 1 to fill any remaining slots.
West Indies' Gayle and South Africa's du Plessis are currently playing in the Indian Premier League in the UAE.
The 23-match Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka was originally scheduled for August but was moved to November 14 and then November 21 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Players will have to go into quarantine for 14 days on arrival and the tournament, which will be played with no spectators, has been reduced from three to two venues – Kandy and Hambantota – with the final on December 13.
South Africa captain Du Plessis and West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell have been selected as the Colombo Kings' overseas marquee players. Other star signing are Gayle (Kandy Tuskers), Brathwaite (Dambulla Hawks), David Miller (Dambulla), Shahid Afridi (Galle Gladiators) and Shoaib Malik (Jaffna Stallions).
