Highlights:
• Basil Thampi sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs. 95 lacs
• Jofra Archer sold to Rajasthan Royals for Rs. 7.2 crore
• Ishan Kishan sold to Mumbai Indians for Rs. 6.2 crore
• Mumbai Indians retain Krunal Pandya for Rs. 8.8 crore
• Delhi Daredevils buy uncapped Rahul Tewatia for Rs 3 crore
• Rahul Tripathi goes to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 3.4 crore
• Delhi buy Prithvi Shaw for Rs 1.2 crore
• Mumbai Indians buy Surya Kumar Yadav for Rs 3.2 crore
• Shubhman Gill sold to KKR for Rs 1.8 crore
• Punjab buy Mayank Agarwal for Rs 1 crore
• Afghan spinner Rashid Khan heads to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 9 crore
• KKR retains Kuldeep Yadav for Rs 5.8 crore
• Spinners Adam Zampa, Samuel Badree, Ish Sodhi remain unsold
• Imran Tahir heads to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 1 crore
• RCB buy Indian pacer Umesh Yaadav for Rs 4.2 crore
• Delhi Daredevils retains Kagiso Rabada for Rs 4.2 crore
• Pacers Ishant Sharma, Lasith Malinga, Tim Southee, Mitchell McClenaghan, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Johnson remain unsold
• Rajasthan Royals buy Sanju Samson for Rs 8 crore
• Rajasthan Royals buy Jos Buttler for Rs 4.4 crore
• Wriddhiman Saha to play for Sunrisers Hyderabad, sold for Rs 5 crore
• Wicket-keepers Jonny Bairstow, Naman Ojha, Sam Billings remain unsold
• Dinesh Karthik heads to KKR for Rs 7.4 crore
• Quinton De Kock to play for RCB, sold for Rs 2.8 crore
• Marcus Stoinis goes to KXIP Rs 6.2 crore
• Kedar Jadhav sold to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 7.8 crore
• Shane Watson to play for CSK, sold for Rs 4 crore
• Carlos Braithwaite sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 2 crore
• Chris Woakes sold to RCB for Rs 7.4 crore
• Manish Pandey heads to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 11 crore
• Chris Lynn sold to KKR for Rs 9.6 crore
• KL Rahul heads to Kings XI Punjab for Rs 11 crore
• Karun Nair to play for Kings XI Punjab, sold to Rs 5.6 crore
• Kings XI Punjab buy Yuvraj Singh for Rs 2 crore
• England captain Joe Root remains unsold
• Gautam Gambhir to play for Delhi Daredevils, sold for Rs 2.8 crore
• Glenn Maxwell heads to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 9 crore
• Ben Stokes heads to Rajasthan Royals for 12.5 crore
• Harbhajan Singh sold to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 2 crore
• Mitchell Starc to play for Kolkata Knight Riders for 9.4 crore
• Rajasthan Royals retains Ajinkya Rahane for Rs 4 crore
• Chris Gayle goes unsold
• Ravichandran Ashwin goes to Kings XI Punjab for 7.6 crore
• Ambati Raydu to play for CSK for Rs 2.2 crore
• Parthiv Patel remains unsold
• Delhi buy Colin Munro for Rs 1.9 crore
• Yusuf Pathan sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 1.9 crore
• James Faulkner remains unsold
• Brendon McCullum sold to RCB for Rs 3.6 crore
• Aron Finch to play for KXIP for Rs 6.2 crore
• Sunrisers Hyderabad retains Shikhar Dhawan for 5.2 crore
• CSK retains Dwayne Bravo for Rs 6.4 crore
• Kings XI Punjab retains David Miller for Rs 3 crore
• Murali Vijay goes unsold
• Hashim Amla remains unsold
New Delhi: England all-rounder Ben Stokes demonstrated he remains cricket's hot property despite his off-field troubles after being sold for $1.97 million in Saturday's auction ahead of this year's Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 tournament.
Rajasthan Royals offered 125 million Indian rupees for the 26-year-old who has been charged with affray following an incident in Bristol last September which cost him a place on England's Ashes tour of Australia.
"Buzzing to be representing @rajasthanroyals in this years IPL and great to be playing alongside @josbuttler," tweeted Stokes, who was judged IPL's Most Valuable Player last year when he represented the Pune franchise.
Stokes reunites with Australia captain Steve Smith, who was also at Pune last year. Rajasthan and Chennai return to the league after a two-year suspension following a corruption scandal.
National team mate and wicketkeeper Jos Buttler joined Stokes at Rajasthan but England captain Joe Root found no taker on the opening day of the two-day auction.
The eight franchises also showed no interest in 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.
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.
Australian players, once again, earned big bucks ahead of the 11th edition of the Twenty20 league beginning in April.
Kolkata bought Australia's limited overs specialist Chris Lynn for 96 million rupees and their Ashes hero Mitchell Starc for 94 million, while Delhi secured the service of all-rounder Glenn Maxwell for 90 million.
Sussex all-rounder Jofra Archer's stellar Big Bash performance for Hobart Hurricanes made him the subject of a fierce bidding war which ended with Rajasthan buying the Barbados-born player for 72 million rupees, 18 times his base price.
Among the Indians, batsmen Manish Pandey (Hyderabad) and Lokesh Rahul (Punjab) went for 110 million rupees.
