The Indian Premier League (IPL) mega auction will be held in November. Before this auction, the league authorities are discussing about changes in several rules. This will be the full auction of IPL. All 10 teams will form a new team. The whole process will last for two days.
In the IPL
Ahead of the auction, franchises are racing to retain older players. The franchises have to submit the list of retained players by October 31. Before that, the parties have published a preliminary list.
Teams can retain a maximum of six cricketers before this auction. Among them, they have to retain at least one domestic cricketer. Teams can also retain less than six players if they want. The rest can be added to the team using Right to Match cards during the auction.
Cricketers who have retired from international cricket before five years will be considered as domestic cricketers. There is no compulsion in numbers to retain domestic or foreign cricketers.
Before the auction, a team will retain a cricketer as their first choice and they will have to pay Tk 18 crore. 14 crores to the second choice cricketer and 11 crores to the third choice cricketer. If a cricketer wants to be retained as the fourth choice, he will also have to pay 18 crore rupees. 14 crores to be paid for the fifth choice. 4 crores to be retained as a domestic cricketer.
List of players retained by 10 teams of IPL:
Kolkata Knight Riders
1st choice (18 crores) - Andre Russell
2nd choice (14 crores) - Shreyas Iyer
3rd choice (11 crores)/ Domestic cricketer (4 crores) - Phil Salt/ Harshit Rana
4th choice (18 crores) - Sunil Narine
5th Choice (14 Crores) - Rinku Singh
Sunrisers Hyderabad
1st choice (18 crore) - Pat Cummins
2nd choice (14 crore) - Abhishek Sharma
3rd choice (11 crore) - Nitish Kumar Reddy
4th choice (18 crore) - Travis Head
5th choice (14 crore) - Heinrich Klaasen.
Right to Match Card – Domestic Cricketers (4 crores)
Chennai Super Kings
1st choice (18 crores) - Ruthuraj Gaikwad
2nd choice (14 crores) - Shivam Dubey
3rd choice (11 crores) - Mathisha Pathirana
4th choice (18 crores) - Ravindra Jadeja
Domestic cricketer (4 crores) - Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Wright Two match cards - one person
Mumbai Indians
First Choice (18 Crore) - Hardik Pandya
Second Choice (14 Crore) - Rohit Sharma
Third Choice (11 Crore) - Tilak Verma
Fourth Choice (18 Crore) - Jasprit Bumrah
Fifth Choice (14 Crore) - Suryakumar Yadav
Domestic Cricketer ( 4 Crore) - Nehal Wadhera
Right to Match Card - Nil
Rajasthan Royals
1st choice (18 crores)- Sanju Samson
2nd choice (14 crores)- Yashwi Jaiswal
3rd choice (11 crores)- Ryan Parag
4th choice (18 crores)- Jos Buttler
Domestic cricketer (4 crores)- Sandeep Sharma
Right to match Card- one person
Gujarat Titans
1st choice (18 crore) - Shubman Gill
3rd choice (11 crore) - David Miller
4th choice (18 crore) - Rashid Khan
5th choice (14 crore) - Mohit Sharma
Domestic cricketer (4 crore) - Rahul Tewatia
Right to match Card- one person
Royal Challengers Bangalore
1st choice (18 crores) - Virat Kohli
2nd choice (14 crores) - Mohammad Siraj
3rd choice (11 crores) - Rajat Patidar
Right to Match Card - Three
Delhi Capitals
1st choice (18 crore) - Rishabh Pant
2nd choice (14 crore) - Akshar Patel
3rd choice (11 crore) - Kuldeep Yadav
Right to Match Card - Three
Lucknow Super Giants
First Choice (18 Crore) - Nicholas Pooran
Second Choice (14 Crore) - Ravi Bishnoi
Third Choice (11 Crore) - Mayank Yadav
Domestic Cricketer (4 Crore) - Ayush Badoni
Right to Match Card - Two
Punjab Kings
Right to Match Card - Five
