The Board of Control for Cricket in Indian (BCCI) met Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise owners to discuss lots of questions gloom around. They started on a note, Will the IPL be an 8-team league in next edition? Will they introduce new teams? What are the changes to be done in next IPL. It is said to be ‘the league is going to have 8 teams in the coming two years and the structure will be the same at least until 2017.’

IPL Chairman Rajiv Shukla, BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur and IPL COO Sundar Raman decided and announced the franchises that ten players from the two suspended teams (CSK & RR) will be available to be picked by the two new teams for the coming two years and rest of the 40 players can be picked up at the auction. BCCI informed the franchise that they would finalize the terms and conditions for the bid document at the meeting held in Mumbai on November 9.

Five players each from #CSK & #RR will be allowed to be picked by the two new franchises for the next two seasons of the #IPL. #BCCI

— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) October 29, 2015

The two new franchises would be unveiled by the middle of December. A franchise official who attended the meeting told, that there is a heavy chance that the two new teams will be from Chennai and Jaipur since that is an already established base and the freshly drafted teams would want to enjoy the existing hype of both the teams.

“It is a bit of an incentive for the two new temporary teams because the fan base is already established in these two cities.” The BCCI also revealed through the course of the meeting that all Indian cities were in contention to place their bids for the two new teams. The proposal of 10-team IPL with 74 matches is rejected and no one wants it neither the BCCI nor broadcasters.

It is being reported that Chennai & Jaipur are thought to be favourites to be the home cities of the two new #IPL franchises. #BCCI #CSK #RR

— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) October 29, 2015

As another franchise official has pointed out, “If somebody buys the new team for $100 million then that becomes the benchmark. In IPL, there has never been a benchmark. So if in 2018 the IPL decides to stick to ten teams, then the new benchmark would be $100 million around which rest of us would need to hover.”