{"id":792,"date":"2018-01-27T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T10:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/?p=792"},"modified":"2018-01-27T16:54:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T11:24:24","slug":"ipl-auction-2018-rajasthan-royals-buy-ben-stokes-rs-12-5-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/news\/ipl-auction-2018-rajasthan-royals-buy-ben-stokes-rs-12-5-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL Auction 2018!!!!! Rajasthan Royals buy Ben Stokes  for Rs 12.5 cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ipl-2018..jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-793\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ipl-2018.-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the <strong>11th season of the IPL,<\/strong> which will be held from April 7 to May 27, 578 cricketers will go under the hammer in the two-day player auction in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- 2nd test --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9595551360736809\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6399291002\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is probably the biggest IPL auction ever<\/strong>\u00a0with new broadcast deal with Star and the value of the ground sponsors like Vivo, every team is already looking at a financial bonanza.<\/p>\n<p>England all-rounder Ben Stokes and Australia pacer Mitchell Starc were picked up by Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the IPL Player Auction today. <strong>Rajasthan bagged Stokes for Rs 12.50 crore<\/strong> with Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) dropping out of the race to sign him. <strong>Starc, sold to Kolkata for Rs 9.40 crore,<\/strong> was also on KXIP&#8217;s radar. However, the Punjab franchise decided not to pursue the player after their final bid of Rs. 9.20 crore.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- 2nd test --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9595551360736809\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6399291002\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>From an original pool of 1122, there will be 578 cricketers up for auction; of these, 360 are Indian and the rest overseas players. The list of 578 includes 244 capped players, 332 uncapped and two Associates players. A total of 182 players can be purchased.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Manish Pandey sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 11 cr<\/p>\n<div>Hyderabad sign Shikhar Dhawan for Rs 5.2 cr.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Kings XI Punjab sign Ravichandran Ashwin for Rs 7.6 cr.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mumbai Indians sign Kieron Pollard for Rs 5.4 cr.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rajasthan Royals\u00a0 buy Ajinkya Rahane for Rs 4 cr.<\/p>\n<div>Glenn Maxwell sold for Rs 9 cr to Delhi Daredevils.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Delhi Daredevils also buy Gautam Gambhir for Rs 2.8 cr.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Chennai Super Kings buy Kedar Jadhav for Rs 7.8 cr<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dinesh Karthik sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 7.4 cr<\/p>\n<div>Kings XI Punjab buy Yuvraj Singh for his base price of Rs 2 cr.<br \/>\nKarun Nair sold for Rs 5.6 cr to Kings XI Punjab.<\/div>\n<div>Yusuf Pathan sold for Rs 1.9 cr to Sunrisers Hyderabad.<br \/>\nAND MANY MORE&#8230;&#8230;..<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>The squads and how they stack up:<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>CSK<\/strong>\u00a0: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Faf du Plessis, Harbhajan Singh, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma<strong>DD<\/strong>\u00a0: Chris Morris, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Glenn Maxwell, Gautam Gambhir, Jason Roy, Colin Munro, Mohammad Shami, Kagiso Rabada, Amit Mishra<strong>KKR<\/strong>\u00a0: Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Mitchell Starc, Chris Lynn, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla<strong>MI<\/strong>\u00a0: Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Kieron Pollard, Mustafizur Rahman, Patrick Cummins<strong>RR<\/strong>\u00a0: Steve Smith, Ben Stokes, Ajinkya Rahane, Stuart Binny, Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler<strong>RCB<\/strong>\u00a0: <strong>Virat Kohli,<\/strong> AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Colin de Grandhomme, Quinton de Kock, Umesh Yadav<\/p>\n<p><strong>SRH<\/strong>\u00a0: David Warner, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shikhar Dhawan, Shakib Al Hasan, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Carlos Brathwaite, Yusuf Pathan, Wriddhiman Saha, Rashid Khan<\/p>\n<div>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- 2nd test --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9595551360736809\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6399291002\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>KXIP<\/strong>\u00a0: Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuvraj Singh, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, David Miller, Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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