IPL IPL: 500 players to be auctioned in July

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Kolkata: Even as a diplomatic row continues to brew over the recent IPL auction, another auction ? which will be a far bigger affair ? is just a few months away. With the BCCI committed to adding two new teams to the league and all current IPL players having served out their contracted period, the next auction, in July, promises to be the biggest trade fair in international cricket, with over 500 players expected to go under the hammer.

According to a reliable IPL source, the existing eight franchises will be allowed to retain up to six players ? four Indian and two foreigners ? from their existing squad provided both parties agree to a mutual deal. However, it is not obligatory on the part of the franchises or the players to hang on each other if they are not comfortable with the idea. Barring a handful of players who choose to stay on, all others, as well as new ones itching to join the IPL bandwagon will be treated as free players and will have to go through the auction in order to find berths in 10 teams which will compete for honours next season.

For the record, there will be no transfer window and the owners of the two new teams will have to recruit afresh.

The IPL also plans to raise the cap on foreign players to at least 12 players per team, but the restriction on foreign players in the playing XI will remain. According to the IPL source, the BCCI which is the promoter of the cash-rich league, is dead against allowing more than four foreigners in the playing XI to protect the interests of the Indian players.

The logic behind raising the overall cap on foreigners per squad from 10 to 12 is the staggering increase in the number of matches as a result of rise in the number of teams. With 10 teams in the fray, vying with one another on a home and away basis, the total number of matches will jump from 60 to 94. With each team required to play at least 18 matches, the IPL also plans to limit the number of matches played by a player to a maximum of 14 in order to manage the extra workload.

This means every franchise will be obliged to rotate not only their players but also the captaincy in order to make the optimum use of the available resources.

The IPL, on the other hand, plans to cope with this problem of plenty by scheduling matches in the morning session, especially on weekends and holidays.

BIGGER BASH

Auction in July 2010. Over 500 players to be up for grabs
No transfers but franchises can retain 4 Indian and 2 foreign players
Number of teams to increase from 8 to 10
Cap on foreign players per team raised from 10 to 12
Existing cap of 4 foreign players in playing XI to stay
Some morning matches to cope with rise in matches from 60 to 94

Mega auction to open bigger, snazzier IPL-4

In IPL 1 & 2 matches have been slotted only in the evenings with the early match scheduled at 4pm and the late match from 8pm. The final schedule, of course, will have to be worked out in consultation with IPLs telecast partners.

The IPL also plans to do away with the icon tag for star players which means that even the big guns like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh will figure in the auction list unless their current employers choose to retain them.

However, one thing is for sure, unlike in the first IPL auction where reputation mattered more than pedigree of the players, the July auction will see current form getting more weightage. So players doing well in IPL-3 and the ICC World T20 in the West Indies will be the hot picks and not old lions who are long in the tooth.
 
The IPL's turning into a real life bloody video game :facepalm
How can you support a team with completely new players every couple of years
 
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I love the IPL, coz it will never end, it's for the hardcore cricket fans :D
 
Wah.. Its something like festival in India. When something like olympics go on, the people there will enjoy it like a carnival and we even do the same. Thanks modi, for all the entertainment:):hpraise. He should put up a rule on players that players should be taken in such a way that there would be atleast one player from each test playing country. It'll make even the people in Pakistan happy:)
 
epic fail by modi......the dust has just settled after 3yrs and now he wants to auction them off again like a popcorn machine.
 
He should put up a rule on players that players should be taken in such a way that there would be atleast one player from each test playing country.

I'd like to see some rule like this-

Atleast 1 Player from all Test playing nations and Affiliate nations should be picked by during the auctions :clap
 
there should be a new rule. you must play one random you find on the street each game and then throw money from the sky while the players are in fancy dress playing musical chairs instead of cricket. the last one standing gets 10 Billion dollars then we do it all over again three more times that day. then after three years get new chairs.
 
I would love to see new players in new teams.
Even favourite teams of many of us would change due to some players.
As Binnu said It is bigger than olympics to us.
 
Wow wow and wow.

It would be nice to see new teams and players in different teams.

Awaiting July.
 
Worst ever move of all that Modi has done till date.The IPL is good as it is.Was expecting something of this kind though.Im not sure how the franchisees respond to this.Hoping someone makes his bloody brain to think and drop this idea.
 
See the craze it got. We our selves in our apartment celebrate it as a festival. We'll watch each and every match in plasma or led on terrace. We'll play music when someone hits boundary or six or takes a wicket. We commentate ourselves on pa system. And for a match, we'll see the profit we've got in the annual funds and add up some (not while watching matches), we'll buy tickets and go to match.
 
See the craze it got. We our selves in our apartment celebrate it as a festival. We'll watch each and every match in plasma or led on terrace. We'll play music when someone hits boundary or six or takes a wicket. We commentate ourselves on pa system. And for a match, we'll see the profit we've got in the annual funds and add up some (not while watching matches), we'll buy tickets and go to match.

Yes. I'm sure many people out here are like you who love the matches and the excitement. And I don't really care if some people don't give a crap about the IPL. As long as the majority of the Indian people are happy, the league will be a success, no matter what anyone says.
 

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