A rather strange situation occurred at a recent IPL auction. Whether it was an oversight by the Indian Cricket Control Board (BCCI) or a well-coordinated plan by the Rajasthan Royals Desk at the auction has long been debated as there was an unprecedented episode in Kochi.
The Royals franchise was auctioned for a purse of Rs 13.2 billion. On the roster he had 16 players and in the ranks he had only four foreign players. They say he needs at least two more players to meet the minimum team size criteria of 18, and preferably he needs four more foreign players to complete the team build. did. They bid him as high as 1.3 crore to buy one player, Harry Brooke. Their failure to acquire an England batsman is another matter, but if the Sunrisers were out at that point, the Jaipur-based team would have been short to buy an 18th player. We would have had INR 200,000.There could be unlimited Indian players with the same number of remaining bankrolls, but only 5 foreign players left on the roster going into the 2023 IPL. Without it, there would be no money in the bank and dangerously left over.
The Hyderabad team was not trying to take advantage of the precarious situation of their competitors, but they certainly wondered if there might have been some kind of intervention from regulators and auctioneers. Theoretically they (the Royals) could have adhered to the league’s rules, but at some point the BCCI or the auctioneers are getting dangerously close to a player’s salary cap. “A similar situation occurred at the South African league auction, where the authorities intervened,” he revealed.
But royalty always ruled, he insisted. Romi Bhinder, Head of High Performance Center, Rajasthan Royals, Jaipur, said: He only has five foreign players,” Bhinder, who was sitting at the auction table, explained his strategy to his Cribbuzz.
The Royals are out of his nine, including four foreign players of Jason Holder (INR 5.75 crore), Adam Zampa (INR 1.5 crore), Joe Root (INR 1 crore) and Donovan Ferreira (INR 50 lakh). I bought a player. His other five players purchased are KM Asif (INR 30 lakh), PA Abdul (INR 20 lakh), Akash Vashisht (INR 20 lakh), Kunal Rathore (INR 20 lakh) and Murugan Ashwin (INR 20 lakh). did. And in the end they still had a bank balance of Rs 3.35 crore. Brooke was eventually purchased by the Hyderabad side for Rs 1325 crore. However, their auction strategy appeared to be a mess. After going to Kochi with the highest INR 42.25 crore, they failed to buy the top three players (Sam Curran, Cameron Green and Ben Stokes). Their head coach, Brian Lara, has tried to justify that they are not all-rounders with the Impact Player concept, but the new rule does not apply to foreign players.
Speaking of foreign players, officials did not hesitate to bring home most of the money they earned in Kochi. After thinking about this for a moment, Cricbuzz notes that a proposal was made to the BCCI that this could be avoided if the board kept the player drafts instead of the mini-auctions while the mega-auctions proceeded according to the schedule. I knew. This created a slab situation for the players, short of the enthusiastic bidding of several players seen on December 23rd.
It was also felt that some clever agents for foreign players understood the tricks of the trade and signed up a few players for a mini-auction instead of a not-so-big-ticket mega-auction. BCCI didn’t exactly react to the proposal, but the fact always remained that the Indian board never minced words in acknowledging a foreign player’s contribution to his IPL. . I have a year to decide.