The contracts of players in IPL, which are expired last season are set to go under the hammer for the upcoming season. So the focus now is heavily on the retentional policy, that, which would alter or remain the same, after the forthcoming meeting with the franchise owners on November 21 in Mumbai.
The previous auction of IPL was taken place back in 2014, where the contract lasted four seasons between 2014-2017. While in 2014, the retentional policy allowed to retain 5 players for each franchise. But now, the retention policy is under the scanner, to alter the number of players to be retained by a franchise.
“The retention policy would be there in all possibility. This is what the majority of franchises want. The only issue we need to thrash out is the number of players who can be retained. We need to work out whether it would be three or five players. For this very purpose, we have called the meeting of franchise owners on November 21 in Mumbai”, said, a top BCCI official as per quoted by TimesofIndia.
Addition to the retention policy, from now on, a player is allowed, to join the auction pool, if he is not satisfied by the offer made by the franchise to retain him.
“The players would be given the option to decide over continuing with respective franchises or joining the auction pool. It will depend solely on them. Even if a franchise decides to open up its purse for a particular player, it can’t do so against his wishes. If a player has made up his mind to go under the hammer, no one can stop him. He will stay back only if he’s satisfied with the new offer his franchise is making,” the official added.
Meanwhile, with Rising Pune Supergiant and Gujarat are out of IPL, the players from these franchises are set to be retained by the incoming CSK and RR,“The first preference would always remain with RR and CSK. The IPL GC had been clear about it from the beginning. But if these players want to go to the auction pool, then these two franchises can’t do anything about it,” he concluded.
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