Overseas players won’t be paid more than ₹18 crore at IPL mini-auction

Mini-auctions up of an Indian Premier League (IPL) play person often produced grounds bids, peculiarly for overseas cricketers. In a determination aimed astatine preserving the worth of Indian players — and discouraging overseas stars from targeting mini-auctions for inflated paydays — the IPL authorities person introduced a regularisation that caps the magnitude an overseas subordinate tin gain astatine a mini-auction.

As a result, Cameron Green — oregon immoderate different overseas cricketer — volition not beryllium paid much than ₹18 crore astatine the auction astatine the Etihad Arena connected Tuesday, irrespective of the last bid amount.

Franchises specified arsenic Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings, who person the largest purses, are escaped to bid beyond that figure. However, the player’s take-home magnitude volition beryllium restricted to ₹18 crore. The proviso was communicated to franchises up of past year’s mega auction successful a papers titled ‘IPL Player Regulations 2025–27: Key Points’.

“Any overseas player’s auction interest astatine a tiny auction volition beryllium the little of the highest retention terms of ₹18 crore oregon the highest auction terms astatine the Big Auction,” the papers states. It further clarifies that portion the auction volition proceed until the subordinate is sold and the afloat bid volition beryllium deducted from the franchise’s purse, immoderate incremental magnitude supra ₹18 crore volition beryllium deposited with the Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) and utilised for players’ welfare.

The mechanics of the regularisation are straightforward. In the 2025 mega auction, Rishabh Pant went to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹27 crore. Should Green — oregon immoderate different overseas subordinate — pull a akin bid astatine the mini-auction, the subordinate would person ₹18 crore, portion the remaining ₹9 crore would beryllium transferred to the BCCI, with the franchise’s purse reduced by the afloat ₹27 crore.

It remains to beryllium seen however the regularisation influences bidding behaviour. Industry observers judge its interaction whitethorn beryllium constricted successful the vigor of the auction room. “In a dynamic situation similar the auction, wherever egos and strategy collide, the information that the subordinate won’t person the full bid magnitude whitethorn not substance much,” said a squad official, requesting anonymity. “Franchises volition ever find different ways to compensate players if they truly privation to.”