BCCI pushes IPL auctions to 2017

Shulka, according to tweets by Indian Express journalist Devendra Pandey, also said that the board will make all the necessary decisions regarding the two new IPL teams by December 8.

Ahead of The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s 85th Annual General Meeting in Mumbai on Monday (November 9), Shukla informed that the player’s auction has been deferred to 2017. Shukla and Board secretary Anurag Thakur had recently met the representatives of the six IPL franchises to intimate them about the modalities of the Players’ Auction for years 2016 and 2017. The franchisees were informed that IPL season 2016 and 2017 will continue to remain an eight team event and the bidding for the two new teams for these seasons will start after the BCCI AGM on 9th November 2015.

Shukla also informed that the base price of the two new teams is expected to be Rs 40 crore. It was expected that there would be rush from several quarters for putting up two new teams, once the fresh tender will be floated for the next edition of the cash-rich league.

Board vice-president T.C. Mathew had earlier said that the tenders would be floated soon after the annual general meeting (AGM). “There is no doubt that there would be a good number of applications as it has been decided to select two new teams to replace Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals who remain suspended for two years,” Mathew had said.

However Shukla made it clear that Rajasthan and Kochi have been kept out from the pool of cities the teams can bid for. Incidentally in the 2011 two new teams were inducted with Kochi Tuskers and Pune Warriors, but the former team was dropped following non-payment of bank guarantee after differences of opinion between the owners of the team surfaced before the 2012 edition, while Warriors pulled out after the 2013 edition.