Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is leaving no efforts to organise the mega auction ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 season. A total of 590 cricketers will go under the hammer on 12th & 13th February 2022 in Bengaluru as the 10 franchises including newly-added Lucknow Super Giants and Team Ahmedabad will look to build their squads.
This time auction will take place in a bio-secure bubble amid challenging COVID-19 pandemic in India.
The BCCI have laid down some mandatory rules that all 10 teams need to follow at IPL 2022 auction table.
All Franchises to Follow These Rules :
- The IPL 2022 auction will take place in a bio-bubble.
- The officials representing the franchises will have to clear COVID-19 tests with negative RT-PCR report on 9th, 10th, 11th February 2022.
- The testing will be conduct by BCCI-accredited medical agency.
- No Right to Match (RTM) option will be available for the team in this auction.
- Only 3 players have been allow to be retain by the original eight IPL teams while the two new teams have been allow 3 draft picks ahead of the auction.
- It means all the teams will start with a clean slate at the auction.
- The IPL 2022 purse has been raise to Rs 90 crore from Rs 80 crore to accommodate more players, especially from the domestic circuit.
- Participants who have return to India after overseas trips in the last 15 days will have to undergo 7-day mandatory quarantine and test negative on Day 8 and 9 (twice).
- BCCI will keep a close watch on those arriving at the team hotel on 11th February 2022.
- They will be monitor for COVID-19 symptoms.
- The testing will be conduct between 12 am to 7 am to ensure smooth conduct of the IPL 2022 auction on 12th & 13th February 2022.
- The members will stay in their rooms until declare negative for the virus.
- All the attendees will have to share full details including COVID vaccination results (if any) with the BCCI medical team.
- All the participants will have to wear masks in the auditorium at the auction table.
BCCI is expecting a windfall from the media rights dealĀ ahead of the IPL Season 15.
Many networks, such as Sony Sports Network, global giants Disney Star Network, Reliance-Viacom 18 and Amazon among many others, are in the fray to grab the IPL Media Rights.
BBCI will sell the television and digital telecast rights of the IPL for four years, between 2023 and 2027, through an e-auction likely in the last week of March.
The Invitation to Tender (ITT) could be float before 10th February 2022.
This e-auction will then be conduct within 45 days of floating the ITT.
