Mitchell starc IPL Auction price hurt BCCI;Indian cricket Board will take strict action against franchises confirms IPL chairman
Arun Dhumal , Chairman of the Indian Premier League has make a serious or formal promise to work along with BCCI to put a pay gap on players to avoid disparity during auctions, especially in the mini ones.Dhumal made this claim while giving an recent interview in the light of Mitchell Starc walking away with an unbelievable 24.75 crores deal with Kolkata Knight Riders, a 2-time champions.
Australian pace duo Mitchell Starc and Pat cummins bagged two of the most lucrative deals ever with the former going to KKR and the latter heading over to the sunrisers Hyderabad.
Arun Dhumal says to avoid pay disparity going forward there will be new policies.Cummins earned 20.5 crores and Mitchell starc earned a 24.75 crores deal. This created a major indifference in terns of pricing of foreign players and local players. Fans of cricket started trolling on social media to Hyderabad and Kolkata for paying such heavy amount to overseas players and discarding to pay the same amounts to the indian players.
Arun Dhumal revealed that new policies to avoid such things. New policies are going to be made to abolish this issue and that any step will be taken only after consideration with all IPL franchises.He told we have taken note of the pay disparity it creates.Arun Dhumal said We will definitely conduct a review and come out with a new policy to address the issue. Before deciding further we will discuss with the franchises.
Arun Dhumal indicate that there will possibly be a cap on player purchase and that franchises will be refrained from paying amounts over a set limit.As we might see in mini-auctions franchises being obliged to not cross the 20 crore mark and also make sure that players under that amount.
