Critical Take of R Ashwin On Return Of IPL Auction Rule
The spinner of team India, RavichandranAshwin, criticised the Right to Match rule, which could make its return during the auctions this year for the next year’s Indian Premier League. The auction for the IPL 2025 will be taking place at the end of this year. In the month of August, the Board of Control for Cricket in India organised a “constructive dialogue” with the owners of the ten league franchises on various subjects before formulating the IPL player regulations.
Speaking about this rule on his YouTube channel, Ashwin said that the rule is unfair to a player and does not give him a fair value.
Ashwin said, “There is no rule more unfair for a player than RTM. Because how has the RTM rule been so far? For example, there is a player called X. He is on a team called, let us say, the Sunrisers. His current value is around Rs 56 crore. He has gone into the auction. Now say Sunrisers want to buy the player back. So, the Sunrisers will bid for the player at a base price of 2 crore.”
“Then, let us say, KKR and the Mumbai Indians are bidding for the player. The bid goes up to 6 crores, and finally, they say, ‘The player is sold to the Mumbai Indians for 6 crores.’ So, with RTM, the Sunrisers will then bid for and take the player at 6 crores. The problem here is that Sunrisers are happy. But KKR and MI are unhappy. The only person (party) happy is Sunrisers. Because, in the beginning, they gave an attendance bid at base price,” he added.
The ace spinner said that RTM is unfair because it doesn’t give fair value for the player.