Twitter Reacts As IPL Governing Body Allows Teams to Retain Five Players

Twitter reacts as the IPL Governing Council met the Committee of Administrators on Wednesday in New Delhi and took a decision on the IPL retention policy, salary cap, player regulation and other related issues. The Governing council cleared the much-hyped topic of player retention and informed that an IPL franchise could retain up to five players by a combination of player retention and Right to match during the auction.

An IPL franchisee can retain maximum three capped Indian players, two foreign capped players and two uncapped Indian players. Franchisee’s which do not retain any player from their squad get three options of right to match. The Governing Council has also set the salary for every franchise for the next three seasons. Franchisees will have a cap of 80 crores in 2018, 82 crores in 2019 and 85 crores in 2020.

This year will also see the return of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals to the flamboyant Indian Premier League. The two teams can retain players who were in their squad in the 2015 season and part of the Gujarat Lions squad or Rising Pune SuperGiants squad.

Let’s have a look at how Twitter reacted to the decision made by Governing Council.

The best thing about #IPL2018 is we don't have to see MSD play under that Brainfade Captain and the Brainless Owner. ??#IPL2018

— Prajakta (@18prajakta) December 6, 2017

Breaking News: Teams are Allowed to Retain 5 Players. #IPL #IPL2018

— MS Dhoni Fan (@MSDhoniFan_) December 6, 2017

Retaining 3 Players doesn't come easy. Costs #IPL2018 Teams Big. If a team chooses to retain three players, a cumulative of INR 33 crores will be deducted from the base auction purse (15, 11, 7 for the three players respectively) #IPL

— Prabhu (@Cricprabhu) December 6, 2017

Uncapped players have got a pay hike, with a minimum of Rs 20 lakhs from previously 10 lakhs #IPL2018 . A maximum of 25 players (up to 8 overseas) and a minimum of 18 player in squad

— G. S. Vivek (@GSV1980) December 6, 2017

Following will apply irrespective of IPL player retention or RTM –
•Maximum number of 3 Capped Indian players
•Maximum number of 2 Overseas players
•Maximum number of 2 Uncapped Indian players#IPL2018

— G. S. Vivek (@GSV1980) December 6, 2017

My guess for @RCBTweets – Kohli, ABD and Chahal retained. KL and Jadhav bought with RTM. #IPL #IPL2018

— Srihari Raman (@sriharikraman) December 6, 2017

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Would have loved to see a complete reshuffle of the teams for the #IPL2018. Retaining upto 5 players give the teams an option to play with the same core team. @IPL #ipl

— Raj Kalra (@kalra_raj) December 6, 2017

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