IPL 2024: Player Auction On December 19, November 26 Set As Deadline For Player Retention - Reports

The IPL 2024 player auction will be held in Dubai on December 19. The deadline for player auction has been set for November 26 as per reports in ESPNCricinfo.

Player retention has already started with different franchises trading and keeping different players. West Indies all-rounder Romario Shepherd has been one of the recent trades from LSG to Mumbai Indians.

Earlier this year, Chennai Super Kings under the captaincy of MS Dhoni won the IPL title for the fifth time. Chennai won the final on the DLS method after Gujarat Titans posted 214/4 batting first.

With the trade window open, almost all the franchises are expected to be interested in trading and getting the players that they want ahead of the next season. The total number of players going into the auction is yet not known but the number is expected to be big.

It will be interesting to see how many players are released by the 10 franchises as they will need a big purse to buy back players. The last mega auction was in IPL 2022 when the two new franchises were added and the squads were revamped.

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With teams having regrouped the core of players, the player auction is expected to be an exciting one. The auction every year throws up new surprises in terms of retentions and releases and something similar is expected ahead of this auction as well.

IPL 2024 Player Auction Date Revealed

? JUST IN: The IPL player auction for the 2024 season will be held in Dubai on December 19

Also, November 26 has been set as the deadline for player retention and releases pic.twitter.com/hRVM1uN661

— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) November 3, 2023

Meanwhile, all the CSK fans will be seeing MS Dhoni playing probably for one last time in his IPL career. After leading CSK to their fifth title win, Dhoni spoke about playing for at least one more season. He had a knee operation after the IPL final and has had enough time to recover.

On Thursday, at an event in Bengaluru, Dhoni provided his fans with the million-dollar update on whether he will be returning for IPL 2024.

“Knee has survived the operation, going through the rehab patch, the doctor told me you would feel much better by November. But no problem in day-to-day routine,” said the 42-year-old.

“Circumstantially if you see, this is the best time to announce my retirement. But the amount of love and affection I have been shown wherever I have been this year, the easy thing would be for me to say “Thank you very much”, but the tough thing for me is to work hard for another 9 months and come back and play at least 1 more season of IPL. A lot depends on the body, I have 6-7 months to decide. It will be more like a gift from my side, it’s not easy for me but that’s a gift. The way they’ve shown their love and affection, I think that’s something I need to do for them,” he had said after IPL 2023 final.

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