New Delhi: The Indian Premier League (IPL) retention rules were announced by the IPL governing council on Saturday after months of speculations over the strategies of franchises for the IPL mega auction expected to be held later in the year.
Each IPL franchise can retain a maximum of six players, including the right-to-match (RTM) option. Only five capped players and not more than two uncapped players can be retained by a team. The IPL governing council has brought the old uncapped player rule back wherein an Indian player who hasn’t played international cricket for last five years and is not part of the central contract list under the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is eligible to be deemed as uncapped player.
The deadline for all franchises to finalise and submit their retentions is October 31. If a player makes his international debut before October 31, 2024, then he will be considered as uncapped player. The uncapped player will cost a team INR 4 crore from their total purse of INR 120 crore, which is increased from INR 100 crore allotted last year.
Although not all 10 IPL franchises will retain as many as six players, let’s look at the possibilities of all players who can be considered for retentions if all existing teams aims for a six-player retention strategy, keeping the uncapped players in mind.
List of probable six retentions by 10 IPL teams
Mumbai Indians
Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Piyush Chawla (uncapped)
Chennai Super Kings
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, Matheesha Pathirana, Rachin Ravindra, MS Dhoni (uncapped)
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klaasen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nitish Kumar Reddy (uncapped)
Kolkata Knight Riders
Shreyas Iyer, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Harshit Rana (uncapped)
Rajasthan Royals
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag, Yuzvendra Chahal, Sandeep Sharma (uncapped)
Gujarat Titans
Shubman Gill, Rashid Khan, David Miller, Mohammed Shami, B Sai Sudharsan, Abhinav Manohar (uncapped)
Lucknow Super Giants
Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen ul-Haq, Ayush Badoni (uncapped), Mayank Yadav (uncapped)
Punjab Kings
Arshdeep Singh, Sam Curran, Jitesh Sharma, Rahul Chahar, Shashank Singh (uncapped), Ashutosh Sharma (uncapped)
Delhi Capitals
Rishabh Pant, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Abhishek Porel (uncapped)
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli, Will Jacks, Mohammed Siraj, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat (uncapped)
The deadline for all franchises to finalise and submit their retentions is October 31. If a player makes his international debut before October 31, 2024, then he will be considered as uncapped player. We present all probable six retentions each of the 10 franchises might explore. Cricket Sports News: Latest Cricket News, Cricket Live Score, Sports Breaking News from Sports Today
