IPL 2027: The Board of Control for Cricket in India has completely put an end to the discussions about joining two new teams in IPL. BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia has made it clear that at present there is no plan to make IPL a tournament of 12 teams instead of 10 from 2028. While talking to news agency PTI on November 11, he termed all such news as mere speculations. Along with this, he has also clarified the situation regarding the next auction and the budget of franchises. Let us tell you that the auction of IPL 2027 will be held on 16th December.

What did Devjit Saikia say on IPL with 12 teams?

For some time, there were reports that BCCI is considering including two new franchises in IPL from the next media rights cycle i.e. 2028. Responding to this, Devjit Saikia said that we have neither formally nor informally discussed the possibility of making IPL a 12-team tournament in 2028. He clearly said that at present this topic is not even within the scope of consideration of the Board.

Full attention on the historic 20th season of IPL

Devjit Saikia told that BCCI's entire focus is on next year's IPL 2027. He said that this league is going to complete 20 years in 2027 and this will be the historic 20th season of the tournament. The board is busy making preparations to make it very special and memorable for the fans and players.

There is no approval yet on increasing the purse of franchises

For the past few days, there were strong discussions in the cricket circles that BCCI may increase the spending limit i.e. salary purse of the franchises before the upcoming auction. There were speculations that the budget of the teams could be directly increased from Rs 125 crore to Rs 150 crore. However, BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia has completely clarified the situation on these reports also. He said that at present no decision has been taken by the board regarding increase in the salary purse of the teams.

Saikia also made it clear that the IPL 2027 auction will be a mini auction, where teams will fill only a few vacant spots as per their requirement. In such a situation, bidding will be done as per the old budget only. He indicated that any consideration on increasing the salary purse of the franchises will be taken only at the time of next year's mega auction, when the teams will prepare their squads afresh.

Mini auction will be held on 16th December

The player auction for IPL 2027 will be held in Goa on 16 December 2026. With this auction, IPL auction is returning to India after 3 years. Before this, auctions for three consecutive seasons were held abroad. The IPL 2024 auction was held in Dubai, the 2025 mega auction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and the 2026 auction in Abu Dhabi. The last IPL auction in India was held in Kochi in December 2022. Apart from this, IPL auction is also going to be organized in Goa for the first time since 2009.