MUMBAI: Star Sports will telecast live the Indian Premier League (IPL) retention event in Mumbai on 4 January 2018.
The auctions will be held in Bengaluru on January 27 and 28. Mumbai Mirror quotes a Star official as saying, “The idea is to send out a message that that the IPL is not just about money. A lot of effort is put in team-building and we want to start the IPL coverage through retention. The retained players form the core of the teams.”
The IPL Governing Council has announced that each IPL team can retain upto five players, either by using the player retention policy or through the newly-introduced Right to Match card. Player retentions were earlier done over e-mail, sent to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) by the respective IPL teams.
Star India has bagged the global television and digital rights to the IPL tournament from 2018-22. The XIth edition is poised to see the return of two teams – Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals – after a two year gap.
