New Delhi: Dubai has emerged as a front-runner to host the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction for the 2024 season. However, it should also be stated here that Bangalore and Mumbai are also in contention to host the IPL auction. The date is yet to be finalised but an IPL official informed that the operation team is doing a recce of various venues.
“It is a 10-team IPL auction now. It becomes very difficult to get hundreds of rooms in a same five-star facility which can house the multiple members of the franchises, the various BCCI officials, operations team, broadcast crew. That’s the reason Dubai remains the favourite venue. But as of now, we are not ruling out Indian cities for auction also,” informed an official on condition of anonymity.
The Women’s Premier League auction will happen December 9 at the same venue.
The BCCI is also keeping no stone unturned to ensure that the next batch of U-19 players have a good amount of exposure going into next year’s U-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka.
Right now, the national U-19 One-Day meet is on for the Vinoo Mankad Trophy and then a three or four-team Challenger Trophy will be held in Guwahati with the performers of the tournament.
The players who do well in Challengers will then be divided into two Indian teams that will play a U-19 Quadrangular tournament in Vijaywada along with junior teams from England and Bangladesh.
Hrishikesh Kanitkar, Sairaj Bahutule and Munish Bali, the coaching staff of the champion batch of 2022, are once again expected to guide the junior boys for the global meet.
