Sourav Ganguly’s chances of playing in the fourth edition of the IPL seem to get slimmer by the day. The IPL governing council, after its meeting today, turned down Kochi’s request to buy Sourav Ganguly.
As per the existing IPL rules, unsold players cannot be signed after the auction. However, franchises can place a request to buy such players at their base price, which would be deducted from the team’s salary cap.
Ganguly, who had raised his base price from $200,000 to $400,000, went unsold during the IPL auction that took place on 8th and 9th January 2011 at Bangalore.
The IPL Governing Council had forwarded Kochi’s request to the other franchises who had to reply before February 3, 2011, failing which it would be assumed that the franchises had no objection.
The IPL, in a letter to all the teams, had said a request has been received from franchises that subject to them having sufficient balance on the salary cap to pay at least the reserve price of the relevant player, they should have the opportunity to sign unsold Indian players from the auction.
IPL’s Chief Operating Officer Sundar Raman further said “the auction regulations were clear that players not taken in the auction could only play in IPL 2011 as replacement players.”
“Before the Governing Council deliberates on this issue, I wanted to get your view on this issue and if your franchise is agreeable to buy any unsold Indian players from the auction; The player can be bought only at his reserve price”.
However, it appears that Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai Indians and the Rajasthan Royals had objections for this move and subsequently, Kochi’s request was declined.
“We had received a request from one franchise (Kochi) that Ganguly should be allowed to be purchased outside the auction and rejected it after objections were raised by some other franchises,” Chirayu Amin, the IPL GC Chairman said.
The move seems to be the finishing blow on Ganguly’s IPL career, unless the franchises show some last minute change of heart.
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