Players overworked? Excess of cricket leading to injuries to key players? BCCI says it’s clueless

[Chandan]

Now we'll have 74 IPL games for the next three seasons and next year after a tough WC, the IPL will start after 5 days only. And BCCI still doesn't get the clue how and why the players are getting injured?

Next three IPL seasons to comprise 74 matches each Two fundamental issues concerning the 2011 IPL season - the tournament format and player retention - have been finally resolved by the league's governing council, after months of uncertainty following the addition of two new franchises. The next three seasons of the IPL will have 74 matches each, the format designed to reward the most consistent teams during the league phase of the tournament. The 2011 season will begin five days after the World Cup, which ends on April 2. The governing council also decided to allow franchises to retain four players in their squads, the rest going into the auction scheduled for November. The franchises' spending power for a squad of 30 players has been capped at $9 million. Format In each of the next three seasons, the IPL will comprise 70 league matches and four playoffs. The ten teams will be split into two groups of five each, but will be ranked together in one composite league table. The change was necessary due to the inclusion of two new teams, Pune and Kochi, from the next season. An extension of the current home-and-away format would have stretched the season to 94 matches, which had prompted concerns of player burn-out. Franchise owners were also reluctant to reduce the minimum number of matches their team would play each season. These constraints have led to a convoluted format. League phase Every team will play the same number of league games (14, seven home and seven away) as in previous seasons with the following break-up: each team will play the other four in its group both home and away (eight matches), four of the teams in the other group once (four matches, either home or away) and the remaining team in the other group twice, both home and away. A random draw will decide the composition of the groups as well as who plays whom across the groups once and twice. Playoffs The teams that finish first and second in the league table will contest the first playoff, which is effectively a semi-final (Game A). The teams that finish third and fourth will play each other in a knockout that is effectively a quarter-final (Game B). The loser of Game A will play the winner of Game B in a match (Game C) that will decide the second finalist that will play the winner of Game A in the grand final. Player retention Franchise salary cap reduction$1.8 million per year for the first player retained $1.3 million per year for the second player retained $900,000 per year for the third player retained $500,000 per year for the fourth player retained Each of the eight franchises that participated in 2010 can retain up to four players but a maximum of only three Indians. The retained players must have been part of the franchise's registered squads for the 2010 season and will not be part of November's auction. The franchise, and the player it wishes to retain must come to a mutual agreement regarding the retention and the fee for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. However, irrespective of the actual fee agreed upon by the franchise and the player, the franchise's salary cap will be reduced by fixed amounts. If a franchise decides to retain four players, it will be charged $4.5 million per year and will have only $4.5 million to spend on other players, compared to the $9 million available to a franchise that retains no one. Also, the size of the squad is capped at 30 players. Ahead of the auction in November, the two new franchises, Pune and Kochi, will also be allowed to sign up to four players from a list of players who were not part of any of the other eight franchises in the first three IPL seasons. However, if either Pune or Kochi sign players ahead of the auction, their salary cap will also be reduced by the same amount as the salary cap for existing franchises retaining players. All the other international capped players, as well as other players who have played 75% of their side's IPL matches in 2010, will be part of the auction. Player regulation Non-international Indian cricketers' salariesRs 10,00,000 ($21,500) per year for players who have not played first-class or List A between 2009-10 and 2010-11 and for those who debuted in this period Rs 20,00,000 ($43,000) per year for players who first played first-class or List A in the 2006-07, 2007-08 or 2008-09 seasons Rupees 30,00,000 ($64,500) per year for players who first played first-class or List A in the 2005-06 season or earlier A franchise can have up to ten overseas players in their squad but only four can be on the field during a game. The player contracts that will be signed ahead of the 2011 season will be valid for two years, with a right of extension for the third year. All players who are part of a franchise's squad will come under the salary cap. The Indian cricketers who have not yet played an international game will have their salaries fixed as follows: Revised catchment areas The IPL has changed the catchment areas for the existing franchises because of the addition of two new teams from the 2011 season. Teams have to include four players from their catchment area in the squad of 30. Mumbai Indians: Mumbai, Baroda Royal Challengers Bangalore: Karnataka, Goa Deccan Chargers: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa Chennai Super Kings: Tamil Nadu, Railways Delhi Daredevils: Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal Kings XI Punjab: Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir Kolkata Knight Riders: West Bengal, Jharkhand, Assam, Tripura, Sikkim, Manipur Rajasthan Royals: Rajasthan, Gujarat, Saurashtra Pune Warriors: Maharashtra, Vidarbha Kochi: Kerala, Services, Madhya Pradesh

How many Indian internationals will be fit to play IPL next year? What is your guess.

[Roshanrocks]

fit or not, they will all try to play , vitamin "M" you see

[IKnowU]

Oh come on....end of the day they are still playing cricket. Its not like they are joining to play rugby or MMA during their spare time. Its not just Indian players that are gonna be playing IPL, all the other internationals will have to do the same thing after 5 days within WC finishes.

[EnterTheVoid]

Chandan, I personally wish India never won the T20 WC in 2007. If its any comfort, the IPL will be after the WC. If the players are injured and miss the IPL, I'd take the rest in whatever form it comes.

[IKnowU]

Its gonna be cringeworthy if India fail during the WC.......and the whole forum will be flooded with posts like "they all had their mind on IPL" "BCCI couldnt find a better time to schedule" But if India does pretty good or win, nobody would give two shites about IPL being within 5 days :headshake:

[Lord]

how is it 74?its 40+25+2+1+1=69 isnt it?:hmmm:

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Mismanaging an injury crisis : Dileep Premachandran There are three Test series scheduled for the next four months which will decide whether India remain at the top of the tree or come back to Earth with a thud. As important are the 13 one-day internationals tagged on, especially with a six-week-long World Cup to start in February. More... What injury crisis? What management? September 12, 2010 by Dileep Over the next fortnight, as a glorified exhibition event called the Champions League – which proper tournament would have a player eligible to represent two or three teams? – seeks legitimacy in the eyes of the game’s aficionados, India’s selectors will be peering nervously through their fingers. There are three Test series scheduled for the next four months which will decide whether India remain at the top of the tree or come back to Earth with a thud. As important are the 13 one-day internationals tagged on, especially with a six-week-long World Cup to start in February. A player will need to be Bionic Man to play all the games and how shrewdly the five-man panel rotates the resources available will have a huge bearing on whether or not India become only the second host nation to win the World Cup. It’s one of those little nuggets of trivia now that India’s legendary spin quartet played only one Test together, at Edgbaston in 1967. They took 18 wickets and kept England under 300 in both innings, but traditional frailties with the bat away from home scuppered any chance of victory. Thereafter, it was always a case of musical chairs, with S Venkataraghavan or Erapalli Prasanna usually missing out. Leaving aside the spin duo of Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh, who now occupy two of the top three places in India’s all-time wicket-takers’ list, most of the epochal victories in recent times have been scripted by the pace trio of Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma and Sreesanth. Well, here’s another trivia test for you. How many times have all three played together in a Test match? Zaheer and Sreesanth combined to devastating effect at the Wanderers in 2006, while Ishant came into his own on the tour of Australia in 2008. After an injury blighted couple of seasons, Sreesanth returned to telling effect at Kanpur against Sri Lanka last year. But with India usually employing a two pace-two spin combination for home Tests and one or the other on the mend from some injury, they have only shared the Test stage once, at Chittagong earlier this year where they combined for 12 wickets. Given that the back-up has either regressed to the extent that they’re not even good enough to be considered for warm-up games – RP Singh and Irfan Pathan – or are far too callow to be risked against the world’s best sides – Jaidev Unadkat and Abhimanyu Mithun – it goes without saying that managing the pace stable is India’s biggest headache over the next few months. Zaheer has just returned from injury, and looked well off the pace in the Mumbai Indians’ first game in South Africa. Sreesanth too has just returned from the physio’s couch, and will get his only chance to stake a claim in a warm-up game against Ricky Ponting’s Australians. For the moment, Ishant, far from impressive on the recent tour of Sri Lanka, looks the only certain starter for the Mohali Test that starts on October 1. Given the itineraries that are choc-a-bloc with games we could do without, injury crises are hardly an Indian problem. England are already reconciled to the fact that neither Andrew Flintoff nor Simon Jones will play a Test again, while Australia have seen both Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus struck down after promising starts. For West Indies, Jerome Taylor struggles to stay fit, while New Zealand have waved goodbye to Shane Bond and possibly Jacob Oram. In order to manage the workload effectively, the team management needs to have power that borders on the dictatorial. Stuart Broad didn’t play the home Tests against Bangladesh. Instead, he was on a strength-and-conditioning programme. Steven Finn has been nursed through the home season with one eye clearly on the Ashes. Once you recognise who your prime assets are, you mothball them from time to time to ensure that they’re around for the biggest challenges. India’s selectors and coach don’t have that luxury. In addition to captaining in all three forms of the game, MS Dhoni’s grarled fingers have to cope with Indian Premier League and Champions League duty for the Chennai Super Kings. The Board President’s XI side to play the Australians could start a man short if two IPL teams make the final in South Africa. The board’s priorities, like those of the players, have clearly changed, but there will be many an angry question to answer if both the coveted No.1 ranking and dreams of World Cup glory are lost as a result of a schedule that has been allowed to spread unchecked like a tangle of weeds.