Unsold IPL Players Online Auction to Start From Feb. 6

The Indian Premier League (IPL) will facilitate auctioning of unsold players online to the franchises through open trading from Monday, Feb. 6, 2012.

"Franchisees which have slots to fill in the foreign quota of 11 players can bid online for the unsold ones from Monday through the open trading session," IPL chief executive Sundar Rajan said after the IPL auction 2012 in Bangalore.

Of the 144 players, including eight Indians and 136 foreigners that were put for sale at the mini-auction on Feb. 4, only 25 of them, including six Indians were bought for a collective sum of $11 million by the eight franchisees that participated in the auction.

According to the revised rules, each franchise is entitled to have 11 foreign players out of the 33 players they can buy though only four of them are eligible to play in the T20 match.

Of the eight franchisees, Mumbai Indians (MI) and Delhi Daredevils XI (DDXI) have completed their quota of 11 foreign players, while Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Kings XI Punjab (KP), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), Rajasthan Royals (RR), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Deccan Chargers (DC) have one or two slots to fill with foreign players.