IPL is such a league that makes everyone crazy for those 2 months, every year it sets a new bar and so the expectations also increase. It entertains people a lot that rivals between the fans get heated even more than players.
IPL 2025 will be a big mega auction but somehow some reports are suggesting that owners don’t want this mega auction while some say they want so this saga isn’t been finished.
Aakash Chopra’s take on IPL 2025 mega auction
IPL 2025 will be a mega auction many players may get transferred before the auction and BCCI has stated that every team has the liberty to retain 6 players while on this a meeting was held regarding the topic but reports were saying that some owners agreed but some not so this confusion has created a buzz on social media, former Indian batter Aakash Chopra expresses his views regarding this, Aakash Chopra said:
“Some franchises say – ‘How will we win if you don’t allow the reset or reboot button to be pressed? Our team is not good currently and we want to dismantle it. We might keep a few people and leave everyone else, and we want to start afresh. Otherwise, it’s unfair because you have to do a mega auction every third or fifth year,” he said.
“It was heard that it was the Punjab team. It might be the Delhi team or the Bengaluru team because they have never won to date and if you do like this, they would never be able to win. The counterquestion to that is – You haven’t won even though it was happening every three or five years,” the former India opener added.
“You should have won but since you have not won, you are slightly upset. Since you are upset, you want it to happen once again. If you keep playing auction auction repeatedly, IPL (franchises) won’t be interested at all in investing in any player,” he noted.
“Some franchises say – ‘Let’s invest, we should be made a part of it, we want to find, scout and invest, and it’s our responsibility to prepare players’. Then whether they find Ashutosh (Sharma) from somewhere or give opportunities to Shashank (Singh), there will be many such players who they want to find and invest in, and they need encouragement for that,” he said in the same video.
“There should be a time when you say that mega auctions should be done away with. Allow them to start building a team together. You might allow a squad of 25 only but allow them to keep players with them for a long time,” Chopra added.
If the original players have been with the team for many years then fans may react the opposite just like Mumbai Indians fans reacted after appointing Hardik Pandya as captain sacking Rohit Sharma. So the fans would show back to the league from then if this mega auction takes place and players get transferred from their original team. IPL has evolved because of fans and their anticipation makes this league even bigger.