MUMBAI: In a sensational improvement, which must be music to the ears of the Chennai Tremendous Kings administration, the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) is more likely to put Mahendra Singh Dhoni within the class of uncapped gamers when it proclaims the participant rules forward of the 2025 version of Indian Premier League (IPL), TOI has learnt.
The BCCI will thus return to it is rule, which has been in place because the inaugural IPL season, based on which gamers who’ve retired from worldwide cricket for not less than 5 years had been put within the uncapped class.
It signifies that retaining Dhoni, a legendary former India and CSK captain, is not going to value too closely to CSK-as per the final retention guidelines, an uncapped participant could possibly be retained for Rs four crores. CSK had retained Dhoni for Rs 12 crores in 2022.
Requested on whether or not Dhoni could be handled as an uncapped participant within the 2025 IPL public sale, CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan advised TOI: “I’ve no concept about it. We have not requested for it. They (the BCCI) have themselves advised us that the ‘uncapped participant rule’ could also be stored, that is all. They (the BCCI) have not introduced something as but. The foundations and rules shall be introduced by the BCCI.”
Apparently, the CSK administration pushed for the rule through the assembly between homeowners of IPL franchises and BCCI on July 31 final month in Mumbai. Dhoni final performed for India within the 2019 World Cup semifinal towards New Zealand at Previous Trafford in Manchester, and introduced his retirement from worldwide cricket on August 15, 2020.
Earlier than the beginning of IPL-2024, Dhoni handed over the CSK captaincy to India opener Ruturaj Gaikwad. Arriving to bat solely within the demise overs, the 43-year-old scored 161 runs in simply 73 balls that he confronted, at a strike-rate of 220.54, and common of 53.66.
At an occasion in Hyderabad this month, Dhoni mentioned he would look forward to the IPL participant rules earlier than taking the decision on whether or not to play in one other season of the IPL or not. “There’s plenty of time for it. Now we have to see what choice they tackle participant retention and many others. Proper now, the ball just isn’t in our courtroom. So, as soon as the principles and rules get formalised, I’ll take a name, however it must be in the perfect curiosity of the crew,” mentioned Dhoni at a promotional occasion in Hyderabad.
The BCCI will thus return to it is rule, which has been in place because the inaugural IPL season, based on which gamers who’ve retired from worldwide cricket for not less than 5 years had been put within the uncapped class.
It signifies that retaining Dhoni, a legendary former India and CSK captain, is not going to value too closely to CSK-as per the final retention guidelines, an uncapped participant could possibly be retained for Rs four crores. CSK had retained Dhoni for Rs 12 crores in 2022.
Requested on whether or not Dhoni could be handled as an uncapped participant within the 2025 IPL public sale, CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan advised TOI: “I’ve no concept about it. We have not requested for it. They (the BCCI) have themselves advised us that the ‘uncapped participant rule’ could also be stored, that is all. They (the BCCI) have not introduced something as but. The foundations and rules shall be introduced by the BCCI.”
Apparently, the CSK administration pushed for the rule through the assembly between homeowners of IPL franchises and BCCI on July 31 final month in Mumbai. Dhoni final performed for India within the 2019 World Cup semifinal towards New Zealand at Previous Trafford in Manchester, and introduced his retirement from worldwide cricket on August 15, 2020.
Earlier than the beginning of IPL-2024, Dhoni handed over the CSK captaincy to India opener Ruturaj Gaikwad. Arriving to bat solely within the demise overs, the 43-year-old scored 161 runs in simply 73 balls that he confronted, at a strike-rate of 220.54, and common of 53.66.
At an occasion in Hyderabad this month, Dhoni mentioned he would look forward to the IPL participant rules earlier than taking the decision on whether or not to play in one other season of the IPL or not. “There’s plenty of time for it. Now we have to see what choice they tackle participant retention and many others. Proper now, the ball just isn’t in our courtroom. So, as soon as the principles and rules get formalised, I’ll take a name, however it must be in the perfect curiosity of the crew,” mentioned Dhoni at a promotional occasion in Hyderabad.
