MUMBAI: In a sensational improvement, which must be music to the ears of the Chennai Super 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 publicizes 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 for the reason that inaugural IPL season, in keeping with which gamers who’ve retired from worldwide cricket for at the least 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 4 crores. CSK had retained Dhoni for Rs 12 crores in 2022.
Requested on whether or not Dhoni can be handled as an uncapped participant within the 2025 IPL auction, CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan informed TOI: “I’ve no concept about it. We have not requested for it. They (the BCCI) have themselves informed 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 will probably be introduced by the BCCI.”
Apparently, the CSK administration pushed for the rule throughout 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 Dhoni final performed for India within the 2019 World Cup semifinal towards New Zealand at Outdated Trafford in Manchester, and introduced his retirement from worldwide cricket on August 15, 2020.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 dying 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 watch for 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 numerous time for it. We’ve to see what determination they tackle participant retention and so on. Proper now, the ball isn’t in our courtroom. So, as soon as the foundations and rules get formalised, I’ll take a name, however it must be in the most effective curiosity of the workforce,” mentioned Dhoni at a promotional occasion in Hyderabad.
The BCCI will thus return to it is rule, which has been in place for the reason that inaugural IPL season, in keeping with which gamers who’ve retired from worldwide cricket for at the least 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 4 crores. CSK had retained Dhoni for Rs 12 crores in 2022.
Requested on whether or not Dhoni can be handled as an uncapped participant within the 2025 IPL auction, CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan informed TOI: “I’ve no concept about it. We have not requested for it. They (the BCCI) have themselves informed 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 will probably be introduced by the BCCI.”
Apparently, the CSK administration pushed for the rule throughout 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 Outdated 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 dying 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 watch for 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 numerous time for it. We’ve to see what determination they tackle participant retention and so on. Proper now, the ball isn’t in our courtroom. So, as soon as the foundations and rules get formalised, I’ll take a name, however it must be in the most effective curiosity of the workforce,” mentioned Dhoni at a promotional occasion in Hyderabad.
