The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have reportedly confirmed the retentions rules for all the Indian Premier League (IPL) teams ahead of the mega auction for the 2022 season. IPL is all set to become a ten-team tournament from the next year after the addition of two new franchises in the form of Lucknow and Ahmedabad.
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BCCI will conduct a mega auction ahead of IPL 2022 in order to give a fair chance to both the new teams to build a strong squad from scratch. As per a report in Cricbuzz, All the existing eight IPL teams will be allowed a maximum of four retentions while the two new teams will be allowed to pick three players before the mega auction. There will be no Right To Match (RTM) option this time around.
The existing eight teams can retain a maximum of three Indian and two overseas players. The old franchises can not retain more than two uncapped players. Meanwhile, the two new teams will be allowed to pick a total of three players outside the auction after the existing eight teams are done with their final retentions.
The new teams can pick a maximum of only two Indian, and one overseas player. They can’t pick more than one uncapped player. “The 8 existing team will first get the opportunity to retain a maximum of 4 Players and thereafter the 2 new teams will be able to retain a maximum of 3 players before the auction,” the BCCI said in a mail to al eight franchises on Saturday (October 30), as per Cricbuzz.
