MUMBAI: The Indian Premier League’s governing council has has set January 21 as the deadline for the eight franchises to submit the names of their retained players, IPL chairman Brijesh Patel said on Thursday.
Patel and members of the IPL GC recently had a virtual meeting earlier this week where the planning and preparations of the next IPL was discussed at length.
“We will have the players’ retention till January 21 and the trading window for the franchises closes on February 4,” Patel told PTI, while informing that the date of the auction is yet to be finalised.It is expected that the mini auction that is supposed to be held this year for the existing eight teams will be held in the second or third week of February.
The eight IPL teams enjoy a players’ purse of Rs 850 million and Patel told the newswire that thre will be “no increase of purse” for the 2021 auction.
As for whether the IPL will be held in India or in the UAE as was the case last year, PTI reports that the governing council has decided to wait for a month before taking a final call.
“The BCCI will wait for a month to see how the COVID-19 situation is in India before finalising the schedule. Everyone wants it to be held in India but we still need to wait for some more time before taking a call,” a BCCI source said.
