Royal Challengers pips Knight Riders to pick Tymal Mills for 12 crore
Internet Desk: As expected Ben Stokes drew a maximum bid amount as he was bought for a whopping 14.5 crore by Rising Pune Supergiants. Stokes who had a base price of INR 2 crore was roped in by the Sanjeev Goenka owned franchise at the at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Bengaluru.
To start with it was a two way race to get Stokes as Mumbai Indians started the bid along with Delhi Daredevils. Sunrisers Hyderabad joined the race at 13.5 crore but it was Rising Pune Supergiants, who had the last laugh.
The England all-rounder is a hot property in world cricket in this format.It will be his debut at this format, having represented Durham in the shortest format of the game. However, he hasn’t played a franchise T20 tournament before. He has over 1,000 T20 runs, while he also has 32 wickets in the format from 77 matches, as he looks to prove himself in the tournament.
The top seven batters for Rising Pune Supergiants looked quite solid with Steve Smith, Faf du Plesis, MS Dhoni, Ajinkya Rahane, Mitchell Marsh, Ben Stokes and Ravichandran Ashwin. Rising Pune Supergiants more than made up for the dismal pick in the auction last season.
The franchise from Pune, with MS Dhoni at helm had all the ammunitions in place to succeed but off-form of key players and losing many of their stars due to injury ensured they lingered at the last spot in majority of the tournament.
The RPS management took a bold decision in giving the captaincy to Steve Smith on Sunday.
Apart from Ben Stokes, other notable buys in the auction were England T20 captain Eoin Morgan joining Kings XI Punjab for INR 2 crore. But the most surprising was England T20 bowler Tymal Mills bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 12 crore. It was a two way race for Mills with Knight Riders going all out to have him in the side, but it was Royal Challengers who had the last laugh.
The Knights however picked New Zealand fast bowler Trent Boult for INR 5 crore. Another fast bowler in Knight Riders radar Kagiso Rabada was bought by Delhi Daredevils for INR 5 crore. Daredevils further consolidated their fast bowling by picking Aussie Pat Cummins for INR 4.5 crore as well. Mumbai Indians bought Mitchell Johnson for INR 2 crore. Indian speedster Ishant Sharma went unsold at a base price of INR 2 crore.
It was a bit surprising to see other England T20 specialists like Jason Roy, Alex Hales and Chris Jordan all going un-sold. Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews was roped in Delhi Daredevils for INR 2 crore while Pawan Negi was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 1 crore.
All the capped spinners that included Imran Tahir, Brad Hogg, Ish Sodhi, Pragyan Ojha also went unsold.
Eight franchise teams are fighting it out for the best possible players in their side to complete the squad and be eligible to compete in the 10th edition of the IPL, starting April 5.
More than 350 players are being auctioned this year, and about 76 players, along with 28 overseas players are to be auctioned, as the world is witnessing a war of money among the franchises to grab the best possible player.
Delhi Daredevils
Kagiso Rabada ₹5,00,00,000
Patrick Cummins ₹4,50,00,000
Angelo Mathews ₹2,00,00,000
Corey Anderson ₹1,00,00,000
M. Ashwin ₹1,00,00,000
Aditya Tare ₹25,00,000
Ankeet Bawane ₹10,00,000
Navdeep Saini ₹10,00,000
Shashank Singh ₹10,00,000
Gujrat Lions
Jason Roy ₹1,00,00,000
Basil Thampy ₹85,00,000
Manpreet Gony ₹60,00,000
Nathu Singh ₹50,00,000
Munaf Patel ₹30,00,000
Akshdeep Nath ₹10,00,000
Shubam Agrawal ₹10,00,000
Tejas Singh ₹10,00,000
Chirag Suri ₹10,00,000
Pratham Singh ₹10,00,000
Shelley Shaurya ₹10,00,000
Kings XI Punjab
T Natarajan ₹3,00,00,000
Varun Aaron ₹2,80,00,000
Eoin Morgan ₹2,00,00,000
Matt Henry ₹50,00,000
Martin Guptill ₹50,00,000
Darren Sammy ₹30,00,000
Rahul Tewatia ₹25,00,000
Rinku Singh ₹10,00,000
Kolkata Knight Riders
Trent Boult ₹5,00,00,000
Chris Woakes ₹4,20,00,000
Nathan Coulter-Nile ₹3,50,00,000
Rishi Dhawan ₹55,00,000
Darren Bravo ₹50,00,000
Rovman Powell ₹30,00,000
Sayan Ghosh ₹10,00,000
R. Sanjay Yadav ₹10,00,000
Ishank Jaggi ₹10,00,000
Mumbai Indians
Karn Sharma ₹3,20,00,000
Krishnappa Gowtham ₹2,00,00,000
Mitchell Johnson ₹2,00,00,000
Asela Gunarathna ₹30,00,000
Saurabh Tiwary ₹30,00,000
Nicolas Pooran ₹30,00,000
Kulwant Khejroliya ₹10,00,000
Rising Pune Supergiants
Benjamin Stokes ₹14,50,00,000
Daniel Christian ₹1,00,00,000
Manoj Tiwary ₹50,00,000
Lockie Ferguson ₹50,00,000
Jaydev Unadkat ₹30,00,000
Rahul Chahar ₹10,00,000
Saurabh Kumar ₹10,00,000
Milind Tandon ₹10,00,000
Rahul Ajay Tripathi ₹10,00,000
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Tymal Mills ₹12,00,00,000
Aniket Choudhary ₹2,00,00,000
Pawan Negi ₹1,00,00,000
Billy Stanlake ₹30,00,000
Praveen Dubey ₹10,00,000
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Rashid Khan Arman ₹4,00,00,000
Mohammed Siraj ₹2,60,00,000
Eklavya Dwivedi ₹75,00,000
Chris Jordan ₹50,00,000
Mohammad Nabi ₹30,00,000
Ben Laughlin ₹30,00,000
Pravin Tambe ₹10,00,000
Tanmay Agarwal ₹10,00,000