It’s been a couple of days since the IPL 2024 Auction took place at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai, and while the dust is slowly beginning to settle, many an expert and fan will still be left dazed by the amount of money that had been splurged at the auction by the 10 franchises.
This year’s auction turned out to be a historic one and the recently-concluded ICC World Cup had something to do with it. Australia’s pace duo Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins not only ended up becoming the most expensive players in the history of the league, breaking the record set by Sam Curran’s Rs 18.5 crore sale to Punjab Kings last season, they ended up becoming the first players to breach the 20-crore barrier in IPL auctions.
IPL 2024 Auction: Full squads of ten teams, purse remaining and available slots
Starc was picked up by Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 24.75 crore on his return to the IPL after years while Cummins joined Sunrisers Hyderabad at Rs 20.5 crore.
Another highlight of the auction was a number of uncapped Indian players becoming overnight millionaires, with Uttar Pradesh’s Sameer Rizvi striking gold with Chennai Super Kings paying Rs 8.4 crore to secure his services. Jharkhand wicketkeeper-batter Kumar Kushagra would join Delhi Capitals for Rs 7.2 crore.
Read: Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and other top buys in IPL 2024 Auction
Eight of the 10 franchises ended up filling all of their available slots to finish with a 25-player squad comprising eight overseas internationals. Only Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals were left with vacancies. While RR had three slots left to fill, KKR had two.
With the auction coming to an end, one would be inclined to believe that the squads that we have right now are the ones that will take part in next year’s IPL. That is unless a player happens to pull out due to injury or some other reason and the franchise gets a replacement.
Read | Complete list of players sold and unsold at IPL 2024 Auction
That, however, isn’t necessarily the case and there are other ways franchises can make alterations to their side.
Can franchises buy players even after the IPL Auction?
In a way they can, through the IPL Trading Window that resumes a day after the auction. This year’s trading window witnessed one of the most important (and controversial for some) deals in the history of the league with Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya returning to the Mumbai Indians and then being named captain of the five-time champions, bringing Rohit Sharma’s tenure to an end.
The trading window, which starts a month after the final, had been put on hold a week before the auction, from 12 December to be more specific. And it springs back into action from 20 December, a day after the auction. So as of today, the franchises are free to approach each other for trades.
So it won’t be buying the player in the traditional sense as one would in the auction. The player has to be part of one of the franchises for him to be eligible for a trade, and the beneficiary franchise will have to shell out an amount matching the final price at which the player had been sold in the auction. The franchise intending to secure the player will have to pay the franchise in possession of the player that full amount, which then gets deducted from the latter’s team budget of Rs 100 crore.
Trades can be a one-way trade with only player involved in the trade, which is highly unlikely after the auction given the squads that have maxed out their player capacity wouldn’t want to enter the next season a player short. Trades can also involve two players which becomes something of an exchange, and is more likely after the auction.
The trading window ends a month before the start of the next season, meaning it will conclude sometime in the last week of February.
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