MUMBAI: The IPL Governing Council has reportedly finalised the retention rules for the upcoming players’ mega auctions, ahead of the 2022 season of the Indian Premier League, that will ten teams competing for top honours.
As per ESPNcriinfo, the BCCI will be allowing all the existing eight franchises to retain four players from their current squad, while the rest of the players will go into the auction pool. There will be two different combinations that the teams can apply while retaining players. The eight existing franchises can retain three Indians and one overseas player, or two Indians and two overseas.
The BCCI has also decided to do away with the right-to-match cards (RTM) at the auction which was one of the salient features during the previous mega auction that was held ahead of the IPL 2018 season. This means, no team can use the right-to-match cards during the bidding process and retain the services of the players who were released in the pool ahead of the auction. This move is aimed at giving balance to the teams.
Team Purse
The BCCI is going to allow the purse for IPL 2022 auction around Rs 90 cr ($12 million approx). In the IPL 2020 Auction, the purse was Rs 85 cr.
Retention Rules for 2 new teams
As for the new franchises i.e. Ahmedabad and Lucknow, the BCCI has specified a combination of two Indian players and one overseas player. However, it is still unclear whether the players that the new franchises will pick will be strictly from the group of players not retained by the existing franchises, or can be from the larger auction pool – which will have new additions – ahead of the 2022 auction.
