Sachin Tendulkar wants IPL teams to have player-retention ability
Most of the Indian Premier League team-owners may be planning to oppose the rules that the IPL Governing Council has proposed with respect to player-retention, but Sachin Tendulkar is clearly not a happy
man when it comes to the teams not being allowed to retain the players.
Originally, the eight teams who had signed up for the IPL in 2008 had signed three-year contracts with the cricketers. Now, with the addition of two new teams from the start of the fourth edition of tournament,
the rules had to be reformulated for what the policy of player-retention would be. The new teams wanted all of the players to be pushed back into the auction pools whereas some of the old teams like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians and Chennai Super Kings wanted some of the
players to be retained by the old teams.
Tendulkar said the Mumbai Indians had struggled for three years to be able to get to the stage where they were. This meant that they would have to rebuild from scratch and that was rather difficult to accept.
Tendulkar said that leagues like IPL were about building the teams and not breaking them at regular intervals. He added, "We have really worked hard to build this team and have got together brilliantly. In
the third year we held a couple of camps, which had nothing to do with cricket. It was just about getting together and building team spirit.”
Tendulkar also added that the owners of the Mumbai Indians side, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mukesh-c77912 and Nita Ambani of the Reliance Group of companies had put in a lot of effort to get the side to where it was today. He added, “(However)
then you realise that the team has to change. It's tough to accept that."
Tendulkar also said that a lot should depend on the player as well; if he is happy with a particular franchise and vice-versa, there should not be any change made.
Earlier, another Indian stalwart, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rahul-c83321 Dravid had said that the pulling of all the players in the auction pool was a good idea because that would prevent the IPL to go the English Premier League way, where
“only three or four teams can win the tournament.”
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