Icon player concept is introduced in the Indian Premier League.Explaining this, an icon player is a player who can only play for his home city in the competition.These icon players don’t have to go through bidding.These icon players have an advantage that they are guaranteed to get paid at least 15% more than the next top earner in their team.

List of icon players * Sachin Tendulkar for Mumbai Indians
* Rahul Dravid for Bangalore Royal Challengers
* Sourav Ganguly for Kolkata Knight Riders
* Yuvraj Singh for Mohali
* Virender Sehwag for Delhi DareDevils

V.V.S Laxman was also offered the icon player status but he declined it.