Mohammad Nabi made more history on Friday when he became the first Afghanistan player to be picked in the 2017 Caribbean Professional League (CPL) draft. 

The former captain was picked up by St Kitts and Nevis Patriots for USD 90,000 in the fourth round of the draft and was closely followed by team-mate Rashid Khan, who was selected in the sixth round for USD 60,000 by Guyana Amazon Warriors, the ESPN reported.

This follows an excellent couple of months for Afghanistan cricket in general. The same pair of Nabi and Rashid have been snapped up at the IPL auction in February by Sunrisers Hyderabad and beginning in December. The Afghan itself team has been on a 10-match winning streak in international T20Is - a world record.

Mere hours before he was picked up, Rashid produced a spellbinding display against Ireland, taking five wickets in nine balls to turn the game around in an eventual 17-run win.

The top pick at the draft was Lendl Simmons, the second-highest run-getter in the tournament's three-year history with a tally of 1238 from 39 matches. Also a two-time World T20 winner, he went to Jamaica Tallawahs for USD 160,000 having represented Patriots in 2016.

Tallawahs, the defending champions, needed the muscle at the top of the order after they traded their captain Chris Gayle and top-scorer in all of CPL to the team that finished bottom last season, the Patriots. West Indies T20 captain Carlos Brathwaite might also turn out for the Patriots provided he does not have any WICB commitments at the time.

Among the biggest gainers from the draft were West Indies wicketkeeper batsman Chadwick Walton. His USD 30,000 contract last year became a thing of the distant past after he was bought for over three times the price - USD 110,000 - by Amazon Warriors.

Australia allrounder Ben Cutting also went for the same amount and is all set to play in his first CPL, for Patriots, who had also enlisted the services of South Africa's Chris Morris for USD 130,000 the day before the draft.