The IPL’s governing council has decided that the eight franchises will be permitted to submit the names of their retained players by January 21, league’s chairman Brijesh Patel stated on Thursday.
Patel and members of the IPL GC not too long ago had a virtual meeting earlier this week exactly where the arranging and preparations of the subsequent 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, the former India Test batsman told PTI even though informing that the date of the auction is however to be finalised. It is anticipated that the mini auction that is supposed to be held this year for the current eight teams will be held in the second or third week of February.
The eight IPL teams take pleasure in a players’ purse of Rs 85 crore and Patel stated that thre will be “no increase of purse” for the 2021 auction.
It is anticipated that Chennai Super Kings, a single group that only had Rs 15 lakh left just after the final auction, would release at least two major salaried players in Kedar Jadhav and Piyush Chawla and improve their purse.
Mumbai Indians will possibly retain most of its players as it is a quite set group and might release a couple of players right here and there to improve their purse from Rs 1.95 crore Rajasthan Royals have the maximum purse 14.75 crore, followed by Sunrisers Hyderabad (10.1 crore), Delhi Capitals (9 crore), Kolkata Knight Riders (8.5 crore), Royal Challengers Bangalore (6.4 crore).
It is learnt that governing council has decided to wait for a month prior to finalising irrespective of whether the IPL-14 will be held in India or not.
“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 supply stated.