No franchise had shown interest in buying Ganguly at his base price of USD 400,000 during the auction on January 8 and 9. Wasim Jaffer and V R V Singh also went unsold.
The IPL, in a letter to all the teams, had said a request has been received from franchises that subject to them having sufficient balance on the salary cap to pay at least the reserve price of the relevant player, they should have the opportunity to sign unsold Indian players from the auction.
IPL's Chief Operating Officer Sundar Raman further said "the auction regulations were clear that players not taken in the auction could only play in IPL 2011 as replacement players."
"Before the Governing Council deliberates on this issue, I wanted to get your view on this issue and if your franchise is agreeable to buy any unsold Indian players from the auction; The player can be bought only at his reserve price".
Raman has said franchisees should send their views by Friday failing which it would be considered that they were not opposed to the request.
As per latest reports, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals had opposed the inclusion of Ganguly.
"We had received a request from one franchise (Kochi) that Ganguly should be allowed to be purchased outside the auction and rejected it after objections were raised by some other franchises," Chirayu Amin, the IPL GC Chairman said.
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