NEW DELHI (AP) - Young batting sensation Umar Akmal and paceman Mohammad Aamir are among 26 Pakistan cricketers to register for the Indian Premier League player auction later this month.

Pakistan’s players last month missed the deadline to secure the necessary clearances to participate in the IPL, meaning they must go through the auction process to compete in the third edition of the lucrative Indian domestic Twenty20 competition.

It now depends on whether the individual IPL franchises have slots available for more overseas recruits.

In all, 97 players from around the world have registered for the Jan. 19 IPL auction, and if franchises have expressed interest in any of those players, they will be informed on Tuesday.

Last year, over 100 players registered but only 50 were put on auction for the 17 available overseas places.

Four Pakistanis - Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Gul, Kamran Akmal and Sohail Tanvir - had their IPL contracts suspended and have already been replaced by other overseas players by their respective franchises.

Bangalore Royal Challengers secured South Africa’s Roelof van der Merwe in place of Misbah. South African fast bowler Charl Langeveldt has replaced Gul at Kolkata Knight Riders, while the Rajhastan Royals brought in Johan Botha in place of Akmal and Tanvir.

The list of Pakistani players also include a number of cricketers who have now severed their ties with the unauthorized Indian Cricket League. Players like Azhar Mahmood, Mohammad Sami, Rana Naved, Imran Farhat, Imran Nazir and Saqlain Mushtaq all competed in the ICL.

Pakistan won the Twenty20 World Cup this year and its players would ordinarily be in high demand, but relations between the neighboring countries remains strained. Some 11 Pakistan players took part in 2008’s inaugural IPL season, but they were banned from the 2009 competition after the Mumbai terror attack, even when the competition was moved to South Africa.

Sri Lanka (17), South Africa (12), New Zealand (9), Australia (9), West Indies (8), England (8), Bangladesh (2), Canada (2), Zimbabwe (2), Ireland (1) and Netherlands (1) are the other nations from which players have registered.

Pakistan: Mohammad Aamir, Shahid Afridi, Ahmed Shahzad, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Akmal, Fawad Alam, Yasir Arafat, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt, Imran Farhat, Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Faisal Iqbal, Asim Kamal, Danish Kaneria, Mohammad Khalil, Abdur Rauf, Khalid Latif, Azhar Mahmood, Shoaib Malik, Khurram Manzoor, Saqlain Mushtaq, Rana Naved, Imran Nazir, Abdul Razzaq, Mohammad Sami.

Sri Lanka: Malinga Bandara, Indika de Saram, Chinthaka Jayasinghe, Thilina Kandamby, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekera, Suranga Lakmal, Jehan Mubarak, Thisara Perera, Dammika Prasad, Muthumudalige Pushpakumara, Suraj Randiv, Rangana Herath, Gihan Rupasinghe, Upul Tharanga, Kaushalya Weeraratne, Chanaka Welegedara.

South Africa: Yusuf Abdulla, Nicky Boje, Zander de Bruyn, Tyron Henderson, Justin Kemp, Rory Kleinveldt, Andre Nel, Wayne Parnell, Vernon Philander, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Johan van der Wath, CJ de Villiers.

New Zealand: Shane Bond, Ian Butler, Chris Cairns, Brendon Diamanti, Grant Elliott, Martin Guptill, Nathan McCullum, Daryl Tuffey, Lou Vincent.

West Indies: Carlton Baugh, Tino Best, Daren Ganga, Wavell Hinds, Kieron Pollard, Kemar Roach, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Lendl Simmons.

Australia: Brad Haddin, Phillip Hughes, Ashley Noffke, Jason Krejza, Ben Laughlin, Graham Manou, Damien Martyn, Clint McKay, Adam Voges.

England: Tim Bresnan, Anthony McGrath, Eoin Morgan, Monty Panesar, Adil Rashid, Jonathan Trott Usman Afzaal, James Foster.

Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan, Shahriar Nafees.

Canada: Rizwan Cheema, Khurram Chohan.

Zimbabwe: Murray Goodwin, Ray Price.

Ireland: Niall O’Brien.

Netherlands: Ryan ten Doeschate.