Next to the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season, an old rule was brought back to allowing players who have not played international cricket for five or more years to maintain them as unkapped players. The rule helped Chennai Super Kings (CSK) to maintain its legendary captain MS Dhoni for just Rs 4 crore. Former legendary India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has now come out and destroyed the rules change, and also said that the price of maintaining unkapped players should not be more as Rs 4 crore.
Gavaskar, especially, criticized an amount of Rs 4 crore, which the franchise should pay to maintain unaccounted players, and realized that the league of the league to keep a viable option for CSK forced the amount to be high.
Gavaskar said that such a high price could have negative effects on young, unaccounted players.
“One of the large amounts of purchased players is completely away, as their hunger and drive are satisfied. For franchisees, it probably doesn’t matter because they may feel that it is a good reduction, but Indian cricket beats at any player’s loss or not. For Sportsstar.
“Most people who suddenly become a duty, they get overwhelmed, first of all, fortunately and then with the nervousness of rubbing the shoulders with those whom they praise and perhaps never dream of meeting. They are often not part of the top 30 players’ squads of their state,” Gavaskar further wrote.
It is important to note that the price limit of Rs 4 crore has been implemented before the IPL 2022 mega auction to maintain unaccounted players before a mega auction, before Dhoni was eligible to maintain as a unaccounted player.
12 unaccounted players were retained by 10 different franchises before the IPL 2025 mega auction, two of which can be maintained due to the revival of the rules – Dhoni and Pesar Sandeep Sharma – to keep the players out of international cricket for five or more years.
The most expensive unaccounted retention for IPL 2025 was Shashank Singh, who churned out impressive performances as a finisher for Punjab Kings (PBK).
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