The Indian Premier League Auction will be held in the early part of 2018 and the rules for the auction have been released by the IPL Governing Council. Also you can watch the IPL Auction Live Streaming and on TV around the world.
The IPL auction rules are out. Every IPL team can retain up to five players from the previous season of the tournament and this can be done in two ways - either through a straightforward retention or by using the right to match card.
Not more than three players can be retained beforehand and not more than three players can be picked during the auction using the right to match catch. A right to match card, which has been used in previous IPL auctions, allows teams to pick a player they had in the previous year after they have been picked by another side in the auction.
If a team retains three players from the previous season before the auction, they can use only two RTM cards in the auction. Following rules will be applicable on the retention policy:
- Maximum number of 3 Capped Indian players.
- Maximum number of 2 Overseas players.
- Maximum number of 2 Uncapped Indian players.
Players who were released from Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals and went to Rising Pune Supergiant and Gujarat Lions, can be retained/RTMed by their respective former teams. The others can be retained/RTMed by their respective new teams.
CSK can retain five out of:
MS Dhoni, R Ashwin, Baba Aparajith, Andrew Tye, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina, Ankush Bains, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Smith, Brendon McCullum, Irfan Pathan & Ishwar Pandey
RR can retain five out of:
Ajinkya Rahane, Ankit Sharma, Rajat Bhatia, Steven Smith, James Faulkner & Dhawal Kulkarni
The rest of the players who were in the Rajasthan and Chennai sides will be retained by the teams which picked them last year.
The IPL Auction will be streamed live online and will be telecast on TV as well. Indian viewers can watch it on Star Sports.
I will release the other information around the IPL Auction Live Streaming as we get closer to the IPL Auction date.