Published: Mar 15, 2025, 10:00 AM (IST)
Edited: Mar 15, 2025, 10:00 AM (IST)
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has come out with a ‘replacement’ rule for the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL). The eighteenth season of IPL will begin March 22 between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB).
In a massive step taken to change team strategies, BCCI announced a rule, which allows franchises to take in players as temporary replacements. In case this rule gets implied, it will now offers some sort of flexibility which was not available to the teams till now.
Franchises previously faced pressure of signing permanent players in order to withdraw/replace injured players. However, a report from CricBuxx reveals that BCCI implemented this rule to allow temporary replacements for short time periods. However, this rule is limited to wicketkeepers as of now.
This new rule only applies in case if all the wicketkeepers in a squad become unavailable, then the franchise is given the permit to take an unsold wicketkeeper from the IPL 2025 auction. Notable, this replacement will only be with the squad till one of their own wicketkeepers get fit, then the ‘replacement’ player will be released.
On top of that, BCCI is going to re-establish a ‘Registered Available Player Pool’, which compromises of unsold players from IPL 2025 auction. Teams are told that any replacement must be made only from this pool, and the replacement window is only limited to the 12th match of the season for the franchises.
