Indian Premier League - The Rules
To ensure that the richest teams don't always win out the tour has created five ways that a franchise can acquire a player.
First one is In the annual auction,
Second buying domestic players,
Third signing uncapped players
Fourth through trading and
Finally buying replacements.
There is a Trading Window where a player can be traded but only with his consent. The buying team will have to pay the difference between the old contract price and the new contract price. If the new contract is worth more than the older one then the difference will be shared between the player and the team selling the player.
Team composition rules are:
* Minimum squad strength of 16 players plus one physio and a coach.
* No more than 10 foreign players in the squad and at most 4 in the playing XI.
* A minimum of 8 local players must be included in each team.
* A minimum of 2 players from the BCCI under-22 pool in each team.
Some of the players are allocated ICON Status some of the players accorded "icon" status are: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag .
In the next few years there are planned expansions of the IPL next season it is expected that four new franchises will join the IPL increasing the teams to 12 the confirmed teams are to be based in Ahmedabad and Kanpur other cities currently being linked are Patna-Ranchi and a possible team from the North East in an attempt to promote sport in that region also one from the North Western States of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachai Pradesh and Uttarkhand. 2012 and 2013 it is expected that one of the unselected teams from the previous year will be considered it is also expected that a second Mumbai or Delhi team will be proposed watch this space.
IPL Cricket News
The IPL Governing Council have taken a number of decisions with regard to the upcoming 2012 season.
LEAGUE FORMAT
The 2012 season will revert to the home and away format, with each of the nine franchises playing 16 matches. There will be four Play-off matches - a total of 76 matches.
The season will commence in Chennai on Wednesday, 4 April 2012.
The Play-off matches will be held in Bangalore and Chennai, with the final to be played in Chennai on Sunday, 27 May 2012.
PLAYERS The 2012 Player Auction will be held in India in late January / early February.
Each franchise will have an Auction Purse of $2m to spend on players in the 2012 auction.
For the 2012 & 2013 seasons, the maximum squad size will be increased to 33, and the cap on the number of overseas players in the squad increased to 11.
The regulation that only 4 overseas players may be in the playing XI is unchanged.
The trading window will open on 15 December 2011 and run through to 20 January 2012.
There will be a short second trading window after the Player Auction.
The trading regulations will be as per previous seasons. There will be no financial cap on trading. Franchises can only add to their squad, by way of trading, a maximum of 4 players who were bought in the 2011 Auction, and they must stay within the squad composition regulations at all times.
Latest News: Kohchi Tuskers have pulled out of the league and Pune have lost their major sponsor, Watch this space.
