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Indian Premier League
Mumbai and Chennai in favour of player retention
Nagraj Gollapudi and Tariq Engineer
June 25, 2010
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Interim IPL chairman Chirayu Amin might have his hands full over the issue of player retention ahead of next year's tournament. While the majority of the franchises want all the players to go into the auction, Cricinfo has learnt that the BCCI, along with the Mumbai and Chennai franchises, would like the teams to retain seven players.
According to one franchise official with knowledge of Thursday's meeting between the BCCI and franchise owners, the board announced that seven players - four Indian and three foreign - would be retained by the teams. However, most of the franchises immediately objected to the decision, arguing that in an earlier meeting in Bangkok last year they made it clear they did not want any retention. Therefore the IPL couldn't unilaterally go against the majority of the franchises. Chennai and Mumbai are in favour of retention because they apparently want to retain their respective icon players - MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar.
The BCCI responded to the franchises concerns by saying it would review the situation and get back to them. If the teams were to retain seven players, the two new franchises would be at a big disadvantage as presumably the top 56 players would then be unavailable to them.
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The board also sought the teams' opinions on the number of matches to be played because it is concerned about player fitness after India's disastrous performance in the ICC World Twenty20. In this regard, the franchises were unanimously committed to retaining the present system where each team plays home and away against all the other teams. "The IPL is not cricket," a franchise official said. "IPL is commerce. If the player is tired or unfit somebody else who is fit and fresher would play. You can't play around the business model for that."
Another franchise official expressed the hope that the situation would be resolved in the next few days because the board understands these issues affect all the teams. Each franchise had one-on-one meetings with the three-member committee of Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, which will then present the IPL governing council with its recommendations for the league.
Nagraj Gollapudi is an assistant editor at Cricinfo. Tariq Engineer is a senior sub-editor
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@ ELiya, contrastively I would prefer to suggest a complete reframing of teams with equal distribution of talent. This could give a real fun and excitement to us, the cricket lovers. I think all the players must be re-shuffled based on their performances. Or, the other option is slab A, slab B and so on players must be distributed to each team based on their values/money for which they are auctioned. There will be the same zeal with each of the team's fan to watch their high-rated, average and etc. players. Somewhat, a complete lift is required for the real life of IPL.
Posted by Rajesh.Jayaram on (June 26 2010, 08:46 AM GMT)Retention of at least a few players is paramount for the identity of the Teams.......... So whoever wants to retain certain players should be allowed to do so and the rest shall be auctioned again !
Posted by mafiasam on (June 25 2010, 21:32 PM GMT)It is very shortsighted of fans, who criticize IPL for bad performance of Indian team in ICC T20 world cup events, I think more than IPL (infact i would not count IPL at all) the reason for bad performance was bad team selection (read Ravindra Jadeja, Yusuf Pathan) over better players. Indian team lost because of lack of technique amongst the players selected for the national team, not because of IPL. so, stop hating IPL, cricket is going the club way and there is nothing you can do to stop that. Infact, BCCI should seriously think about reducing the international calendar. After all, they have only a pool of sponsors who sooner or later will realize that cricket won't be as popular in future due to its overkill (Asia Cup, and India-Srilanka series are few examples).
Posted by mafiasam on (June 25 2010, 21:26 PM GMT)I think franchises will do a big mistake by not retaining players. I agree with Mitgop11, that a legacy is created around star players. and to maintain that, and the fan base as well, it is important that all teams retain their key players, especially Indian players. I am a Delhiite and I support my team mostly because of the players in the team, i.e. Sehwag and Gambhir, and AB deVilliers. They have become the identity of the team and you cannot take away the identity and still expect fans to side with their regional teams. It would be hard for me to support my own team if we end up losing players that I mentioned. Ofcourse, I love Sachin, but his legacy is with Mumbai team, and it would be odd for me to see him in any other team but Mumbai.
Posted by@jnanesh. LOL, sreenivasan is cheating , that's why csk won, that's why India won in asia cup, that's why even south Africa and England are winning.. wow mate.. great intellect. is this a trump card game to cheat?. we won fair and square in both ipl and in asia cup though the opponent was stronger than us
Posted by Rohan0309 on (June 25 2010, 17:09 PM GMT)They should keep it simple. Those teams interested in retaining players should be allowed to do so. Those not in favour can look forward to the auctions.
Posted by sweetspot on (June 25 2010, 17:02 PM GMT)LOL@jnanesh! If Mr. Srinivasan cheated and CSK won, then who cheated to make India win the Asia Cup? CSK played some lousy cricket, and some good cricket, but most importantly, they played when it mattered. Bangalore on the other hand, played tough cricket to start with and then when it mattered, came up with mediocrity. That's the difference between champions and also rans. Interesting that Dhoni is the captain of both CSK and India - both winners under him!
Posted by mitgop11 on (June 25 2010, 16:30 PM GMT)The franchisees who do not want to retain players know nothing about cricket. If they think IPL is 100% business, they are wrong... IPL can be termed as a derivative, but the underlying asset is cricket and cricketers... Chennai and Mumbai has created a legacy for the team around its star players... if other franchisees havent managed to do that.. whose mistake is that? a typical busniess mentality... this should have no place in cricket.. the two new franchisees.... befing paying your money, dont you know about the retention policy? then, why cry now ?
Posted by Harish8207 on (June 25 2010, 14:44 PM GMT)Players must be retained...Let the new franchisees suffer.. CSK want Dhoni,Badri,Vijay,Haydos,Mike,Dougie in line-up.. They are the Champs
Posted by CricEshwar on (June 25 2010, 13:46 PM GMT)I cannot say on the number, but there should be some kind of retention policy which also should be optional. Otherwise the identity of the team would be lost. But, if everyone goes back into the pool, the auction will be an interesting view.