Sunil Gavaskar, the IPL governing council member wrote a letter to the IPL skippers consisting that, all the players in the cricket must be auctioned and none of the player should be left out.
The franchise are requested to select their players either existing or new one very carefully as they have to pay a bid $2million as it would be a large some amount.As another two teams are going to join this IPL season one is Kochi and the other is Pune.
"We felt that retention of players was a bit unfair on the new teams but we had to take into account an earlier resolution by the governing council where it was decided that 4 Indian and 3 overseas players would be allowed to be retained by each franchise so we proposed a nomination process whereby each franchise could nominate the players they wished to retain but all those players also would go into the auction with a cap of $2 million. If the market forces went to the limit of $2 million and the franchise was still keen on the player then they could retain him at that price."
Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and MAK Pataudi are said to recommend the league structures as instructed by the BCCI.The auction's worth would be $8 million,so the franchise should pick out their players very carefully.
"There is a possibility that some other franchises could mischievously play up the auction but that is something that cannot be avoided. The number of players in a squad would be 25 and since a player could only play 14 ties plus the knockouts a franchise could play 5 overseas players in four matches but not in the knockout stage," he wrote.
The proposals would be discussed by the governing council in August. Gavaskar wrote that Adam Gilchrist, the deccan charger's captain suggested to modify the knockout matches which has been accepted by the cricket council.
"By the way, Gilly, your idea of having the knockout stage where teams 1 and 2 play against each other and the loser plays the winner of 3 and 4 has been accepted."
