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Devesh

Devesh

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The IPL 2017 player auction is likely to take place in the third week of February following a delay from the originally proposed date of February 4. Although the BCCI has not issued a final date yet, franchises understand it would be anyhwere between February 20 and 25. Last November the IPL Governing Council decided to schedule the IPL 2017 tournament between April 5 and May 21.

At that time, the player auction was slotted in tentatively for February 4 but that was ruled out as soon as the Supreme Court of India dismantled the BCCI house at the start of the year by removing its president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke and imposing various restrictions on the remaining eligible office bearers at the board. Although the BCCI management under its chief executive officer Rahul Johri was ready to stick to the timelines drawn last November, the court's delay in appointing the committee of administrators put the IPL decisions on the backburner.

However, with a four-member committee of administrators taking charge on Monday, the IPL is back on the priority list. The committee of administrators met with the BCCI management team to discuss the immediate decisions that need to be taken concerning IPL.

"The Committee of Administrators (COA) met the concerned BCCI officials today to take stock of the urgent and important matters mainly concerning the successful conduct of IPL 2017," a BCCI media release said. "The committee of administrators assured the franchises that it was overseeing the preparations for IPL and the 'operational timelines' will be sent out shortly."

2017 IPL auction delayed until late February | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
 
Devesh

Devesh

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Kevin Pietersen will not play the 2017 season of the IPL, citing a busy winter as a reason for not entering the player auction scheduled for later this month.

Pietersen, 36, was part of the Rising Pune Supergiants franchise in 2016 but played only four games before missing the rest of the tournament with a calf injury. He was released by the franchise in December last year and would have had to be bought at the player auction in February to play this year.





Pietersen's previous bids
  • 2009 - $1.55 million (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
  • 2011 - $650,000 (Deccan Chargers)
  • 2014 - $1.33 million approx. (Delhi Daredevils)
  • 2015 - $300,000 approx. (Sunrisers Hyderabad)
  • 2016 - $520,000 approx. (Rising Pune Supergiants)






"I won't be going into the IPL auction," Pietersen said on Twitter. "My winter has been too busy with all my travel & I don't want to spend April/May away too!"

Pietersen spent the winter playing the domestic T20 tournament in South Africa - 198 runs in five innings for Dolphins - and the Big Bash League in Australia, where he scored 268 runs in eight innings in Melbourne Stars' run to the semi-final.

He had played for Quetta Gladiators in the inaugural season of the PSL in 2016 and is set to be part of the team once again for the upcoming tournament from February 9 to March 5. The IPL is scheduled to begin in the first week of April and end in the third week of May.

Kevin Pietersen opts out of IPL 2017 | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
 
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