The Indian Premier League’s (IPL) governing council has cleared up to three players from the two franchise suspended for two seasons, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, to be retained for next year’s edition of the lucrative T20 tournament, which means that Indian cricket superstar IPL 2018 MS Dhoni could be in line to represent the franchise whom he led to two IPL titles. n a meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday, along with the Committee of Administrators (CoA), the IPL GC met to discuss IPL Player retention policy, salary cap, player regulations and other related issues.
Among the decisions taken was to allow Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2018 MS Dhoni to retain players from their 2015 squads, who are not playing for any other franchise, and to set in place the five-player buy-back rule which includes option of doing so with three retention and two matching cards, or two retention and three matching cards. Out of five cricketers that a franchise could buy back, a maximum of three Indians and two overseas players are allowed. If a franchise opts not to retain any players, it will get three matching cards at the auction in 2018.A maximum of 25 players (with a total of eight overseas players) and a minimum of 18 players will be allowed per franchise squad. Salary caps have been set at Rs 80 crore for 2017, 82 crore for 2019 and 85 crore for 2020. The minimum spend will be 75 per cent of the salary cap for each season. The maximum cap for uncapped cricketers will be Rs 40 lakh.
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