For the last leg of the 2025 season, which is scheduled to take place from May 17 to June 3, the Indian Premier League (IPL) has changed its regulations to include temporary international replacements. The event was suspended for a week because to the India-Pakistan crisis, which made the alteration necessary.
A statement released by the IPL authorities to all of the franchises prior to the tournament’s resumption read, “Given the non-availability of certain foreign players due to national commitments or personal reasons or any injury or illness, Temporary Replacement Players will be allowed until the conclusion of this tournament.”
“This decision is subject to the condition that the Temporary Replacement players taken from this point forward will not be eligible for retention in the following year. Players that are temporary replacements must sign up for the 2026 IPL Player Auction.
It implies that Jake Frazer-McGurk would be eligible to be retained for the upcoming season, but Mustafizur Rahman, who was formally named on Wednesday as the Delhi Capitals’ successor, will not.
No club was permitted to sign a temporary player after it began its 12th league game, under the regulations that was given before to the season. However, the IPL administration changed the regulations in response to the unique situation of the competition being abruptly suspended for a week.
Most of the foreign players have gone back home after the IPL was halted on May 8, the day after the Punjab Kings’ home match against the Delhi Capitals in Dharamsala had to be canceled and the stadium evacuated as a result.
Some of the players who will compete in the World Test Championship final, as well as those whose families are against their going back to India, will not be returning, even if the majority will. The IPL administrators have extended the temporary replacement window for the tournament’s business end in order to guarantee that no club is negatively harmed by the absence of players from other countries.
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