IPL 2018: Top gainers and losers on day 1 of auction
| Updated: Jan 27, 2018, 02:55 PM IST
With more than $60 million to spend, the eight Indian Premier League franchises splashed out again on Saturday for the 2018 season.
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Ben Stokes was the star performer for the second consecutive year in the IPL auction as he was taken for Rs 12.5 crore by Rajasthan Royals.
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The Indian players also had a field day, with Manish Pandey and KL Rahul going for Rs 11 crore each for Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab respectively.
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Krunal Pandya and Ishan Kishan with 8.8 crore and 6.2 crore for Mumbai Indians were the star uncapped players on day 1.
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The eight franchises showed no interest in England captain Joe Root, West Indies opener Chris Gayle and fellow Twenty20 stalwart Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka, who is the leading wicket-taker in the tournament's decade-old history.
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Hyderabad used their right-to-match option to retain Rashid Khan for 90 million rupees after Punjab made an aggressive bid for the teenaged Afghan spinner.
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Young Indian fast bowler Kamlesh Nagarkoti, who has been one of the stars of the ongoing U-19 World Cup, will make his IPL debut for KKR after being sold for Rs 3.2 crore from a base price of Rs 20 lakh.
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Gautam Gambhir, who was earlier with KKR, went to Delhi for Rs 2.8 crore, while R Ashwin was not retained by Chennai Super Kings and was purchased by Kings XI Punjab at a whopping Rs 7.60 crore