{"id":22475,"date":"2025-12-16T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=671791"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:39:14","slug":"ipl-2026-mini-auction-can-franchises-use-rtm-cards-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-mini-auction-can-franchises-use-rtm-cards-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 mini-auction: Can franchises use RTM cards? Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franchises participating in the upcoming IPL mini-auction will <strong>not have the option to use the Right to Match (RTM) card<\/strong> to buy back released players.<\/p>\n<p>The RTM mechanism is <strong>not applicable in a mini-auction format<\/strong>. This provision is reserved exclusively for <strong>mega auctions<\/strong>, where teams are allowed to retain a core group of players and use RTM cards to match the highest bid for certain released players.<\/p>\n<p>In a mini-auction, all players who enter the auction pool are treated equally, and franchises must compete purely through open bidding. Once a player is released and goes under the hammer, the team that places the highest bid secures the player, with <strong>no preferential rights<\/strong> for the former franchise.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, teams that released players ahead of this auction will have to <strong>outbid rival franchises<\/strong> if they wish to re-sign them. Strategic purse management and bidding discipline will therefore play a crucial role, especially for franchises with limited budgets.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, <strong>RTM cards cannot be used in the IPL mini-auction<\/strong>, and franchises must rely entirely on their available purse and auction strategy to build their squads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franchises participating in the upcoming IPL mini-auction will not have the option to use the Right to Match (RTM) card\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}