Thursday, October 23, 2008

Some IPL chitchat

While we were all busy watching the Aussie series, the Bangkok meet with franchisees has happened and here is the reported outcome.

Looks like there will be about $2 million additional salary cap to get the Pietersons and Flintoffs of the world. The trading rules have been setup as well (though I am confused by "This means that trading can be done for existing players with absolutely no budgetary limits." - can you buy an existing player from another team for over $7 million.) It is unclear on whether the icon players can be traded.

Another auction is setup for the new players on Feb 6th (more tamasha). And finally a performance clause has been added in - interestingly I wonder if the players will agree. You can have only 4 foreign players in the team while the squad contains 10. So at any point 6 of them will get penalized the 20%.

2 comments:

a fan said...

interesting, so the foreign players cannot be penalized?

maybe, we should come with a wishlist of players for Chennai Superkings :) I think, we really few good bowlers :)

Anonymous said...

Existing players cannot be penalized unless they sign new contracts. I think foreign players can be penalized as well - just don't see how they will agree.

Yes, I was thinking of a wishlist not just for CSK but perhaps for all the teams. For example, I am thinking Bangalore needs KP (for the personality he brings as well :))