While Dhoni played a limited role in 2024, coming in as a finisher late in the innings, his influence on the team remains immense. He had earlier stated that his decision to continue in the IPL would

A new IPL rule links foreign players' salaries to the highest bids for Indian players, capping overseas salaries based on Indian bids from the previous auction. Scroll down to know everything about it.

IPL franchises can retain up to five cricketers with no nationality restriction, introducing Right to Match card option.

The IPL retention rules are out as the law of 'uncapped players' makes a return.  The rule states any player who is capped becomes uncapped if he hasn't played international cricket for 5 years or held a central contract with the BCCI.

The BCCI brought back the uncapped player rule for India's international players with over five years of gap in their last appearance for the national team.

The new rule also states that every team will get a chance to retain a maximum of six players that can have five capped players and two uncapped players.