The ball, it seems, is now in MS Dhoni's court after the Indian Premier League (IPL) Player Regulations announced by the IPL Governing Council (GC) on Saturday re-introduced the 'uncapped player' rule that had been scrapped in 2021.
The rule, which applies to Indian players only, states that a player will be considered uncapped "if the player has in the last five calendar years preceding the year in which the relevant Season is held, not played in the starting XI in International Cricket (Test match, ODI, Twenty20 International) or does not have a Central Contract with BCCI."
