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Indian Premier League 2011
New format, player retention clause worry franchises
Tariq Engineer
September 7, 2010
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Franchises in the IPL believe that the league's new format and the player retention clause take away their control over their players and also affect their bottom lines. At least three IPL franchises say the new regulations devised by the BCCI are needlessly complicated.
"New IPL rules a bit confusing," Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan wrote on the micro-blogging website Twitter."Two new teams added (good). All players should go into pool to make it fair for everyone. Simple and straight."
The new rules governing player retention allow a team to keep up to four players but at a steep price. The first player retained will cost a team $1.8 million against the salary cap of $9 million, regardless of the amount the player is actually paid. The second player will cost $1.3 million, the third $900,000 and the fourth $500,000.
A team official told ESPNcricinfo, this rule suited a franchise only if it owned a player worth the $1.3m-1.8m bracket. "That person needs to win you at least five or six games and three IPL seasons have taught us that there is no one such player to be found." Using all four retention options will mean that a franchise will have only $4.5m to spend on 26 other players.
The handful of players who may come into the $1.8m bracket, an official said, would be big-ticket names like Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni. A franchise official said the next group of players who could find themselves up for retention would be "Kieron Pollard, Suresh Raina and maybe Virender Sehwag but after that, I can't see anyone else".
The high cost of keeping a player effectively means most players will be part of November's auction. An official said, "Given the amount of money that you have to commit to retention, practically it will be difficult for teams to retain players".
While the schedule of 74 games ensures the franchises will play a minimum of 14 games, the same as in previous years, the addition of two new teams means each team gets a smaller share of the central revenue. "The business revenue models were calculated on the extra games," another team official said and thought that the new clauses had, for the franchises, made the IPL "a loss-making proposition".
The new rule under which all IPL player contracts can only be vetted by the BCCI has also come in for criticism with another franchise official saying, "This is a very player-centric rule and it benefits the player more than the franchise. So what leverage do franchises have with them?" The new rule had sent out a message from the BCCI to the franchises, "It is clear the BCCI understands that their biggest assets are the players and not the franchises."
With the players now out of their control, the only budgetary elements directly under the control of the franchises would be gate revenues, merchandising and sponsorships.
Tariq Engineer is a senior sub-editor at Cricinfo
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Retaining people is not the right option as it is very expensive. Rather you can go for a much better team through auction. For example CSK can go for the following team instead of retaining Hyden,Dhoni,Raina and Muralidharan. 1.M.Vijay 2.David Warner 3.Shane Watson 4.S.Badrinath 5.Dinesh Karthik 6.Albie Morkal 7. Anirudha Srikanth 8. Piysh Chawla 9.R.Ashwin 10.Pragyan Oja 11.Doug Bolinger This is a much better team .
Posted by SpeedCricketThrills on (September 09 2010, 12:44 PM GMT)How the $ 4.5m should be distributed amongst the 4 players should be left to the franchisees. Take RCB's example: 1) Dravid - huge value by sheer presence; good performer too. Fixing 1.8 will reduce the purse available for others. Should be allowed to "release" a few hundred 1000s for others. 2) Kumble - presently $500 - underpaid, overperformer. $1.3 looks good - he may want to "release" a few hundred 1000s for others 3) Uthappa - currently $600,000. RCB risks losing him if not chosen in "retain 4". So keep him at $900K The above 3 locals are crucial for excitement in the stands. 4) Ross Taylor - hugely underpaid, huge overperformer. Will have to be given the the few hundred 1000 dollars "released" by others. $500K is not fair for his caliber. I've left out: KP - yes, we can afford to lose him, though he is good. Kallis - OK, goodbye, all the best. Steyn - sorry Dale, no slot - hopefully Vinay will do the job 'effectively' Kohli - miss you boy.
Posted by SuperSharky on (September 09 2010, 10:28 AM GMT)Auction ONLY new players and players that have no contract I don't agree with this circus. Yes, we all love fun, but seriousness keeps a good thing in tact. Be like the forefathers of the professional sport and use the professional European Football Clubs as an example , if you don't know how. You can not throw all the established players into one pool every now and then and like school-kids picking your squad just before every season start. You kill loyalty. And loyalty and seriousness are some of the aspects that makes it harder for an ilegal bookie to go around and try to rick circus t20 games. Don't make things easy for them and keep your established fans loyal to their teams. Don't kill the aura of sport.
Posted by sweetspot on (September 09 2010, 09:47 AM GMT)Remember folks, this retention isn't so much about the player's worth to the team's cause alone. It is about the image of the franchise and how the loyal fan base of a great cricketer, whether or not he performs, comes to watch their games on TV. This is much more business oriented than it appears.
Posted byGood for Mumbai Indian...keep Sachin Pollard Malinga Harbhajan
Posted by@sweetspot.....fantastic comments on SRK...moreover i see lot of ppl discussin abt new auction being fair and square....remember guys Sachin and MSD was bought in the previous auction and and was not abducted...KKR bought players like Mortaza for $ 600,000 and Ishant Sharma for $950,000.CSK bought Matthew Hayden (Aus) 375,000; Michael Hussey (Aus) 350,000.This tells you about the some thought goin behind ur selection.This is Sports and not a movie where you can hype and let things go your way. MI and CSK would leverage thru the player retention policy and feel Bangalore would be the worst affected team next team. They had the most balanced team and didnt hav any weak link. Im still perplexed by the fact that Mallya being in sports biz wants to go for auction. But for Champions League he bought all his players rite from ross taylor to kallis.. all his foreign recruits but stil wants to go to auction.Hopefully IPL 2011 wud teach him a lesson.
Posted by Runster1 on (September 09 2010, 03:03 AM GMT)@Mani K Chandru CSK deserved to win IPL!!!!!! THEY WON THE FINAL!!! GET OVER IT! EVEN MUMBAI FANS I KNW ADMIT THAT CSK WON FAIRLY!!! What about tendulkar? He got out by raina was called not out and he stayed at the crease and played? What happened to sportsmenship? I hope he hasnt inherited the attitude that ONE other country plays by: win-at-all-costs attitude.
Posted by helloajs on (September 08 2010, 23:37 PM GMT)well people are giving too much money to those international players. i think they should more focus on local talent. they are 7 in team and if two of them outperforme then you have nice balance team. so why pay buck load money to internation players to retain them.. let them go and focuse on local talent which can win you game...for example (Mumbai indians.. S Tiwary and Raydu..)
Posted byIf I was Vijay Mallya, I wud spend 1.8 million for Eion Morgan redemption. :)
Posted by mahiiiiii on (September 08 2010, 19:15 PM GMT)play fair .............auction fair...................