With the announcements of the Participatintions of new teams in the Indian Premier League. Cricket fans are very eager to know the IPL 2022 Mega Auction Retaination policy ahead of IPL 2022.
On Monday 25th October 2021, The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the addition of two new IPL franchises i.e. Ahmedabad and Lucknow who will take part in the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League.
Soon after the announcement of the two new IPL franchises, the fans jumped over to the talks of the retention policy for the existing eight franchises and a special pick policy for the two newly added teams.
The reports from ESPNcricinfo on Thursday revealed that each existing IPL franchise will be able to retain a maximum of four players ahead of the IPL 2022 Mega Auction.
The combination of the four retained players could be either of the two Indian players and two overseas cricketers or three Indian and one overseas cricketer. It is also informed that the use of Right to Match (RTM) cards will be scraped from the upcoming mega auction.
Moreover, the report added that under the special pick policy of BCCI, Ahmedabad and Lucknow can now acquire three cricketers prior to the IPL 2022 Mega Auction. The combination will be two Indian players and an overseas player.
The total cap on the purse value has also seen a rise of INR 5 Crores. Each IPL franchise will have a total purse value of INR 90 Crores. The cost of the retained players will be deducted from the total purse value. The council has yet not revealed the total sum to be used on the retained players. In the 2018 mega IPL auction, the total value of the three retained players was capped at INR 33 Crores.
Each player has the liberty to choose whether they want to get retained or not by the previous franchise. If any player wants to leave the previous team, he will go under the hammer to enter new teams.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 Mega Auction is expected to happen from December 2021 to January 2022.
