Twitter Reactions: Ben Stokes fetches 14.5 crores in the IPL 2017 Auction

Published - 20 Feb 2017, 10:45 IST | Updated - 20 Feb 2017, 10:45 IST

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Ahead of the IPL 2017 Auction, all the hype was around one player – England all-rounder Ben Stokes was the talk of the town and there was an immediate bidding war when his name came up. Mumbai Indians team owner Aakash Ambani had his hand up even before the auctioneer Richard Madley started the bids and obviously were the first to go.

Other teams in Delhi Daredevils, Royal Challengers and Sunrisers Hyderabad also showed interest in him and the bid soon shot up multiple folds from his base price of INR 2 crores. Mumbai Indians were not willing to let him go they were in when it went up to 9 crores, 10, 11 and also until it was 13 that is when Rising Pune Supergiants jumped in the bid war.

At 14 Mumbai were still in it but RPS having released a lot of players had a total purse of 17.5 crores and were willing to shell out a major chunk of it on Stokes. They went ahead and put it beyond MI for 14.5 crores and Ambani was not longer interested in hiking it even further. The hammer went down and Stokes earned more than 7 times his base price the first time he featured in the auction.

Before him a total of 9 players went unsold- Marin Guptill, Jason Roy, Alex Hales, Faiz Fazal, Ross Taylor, Saurabh Tiwari, Irfan Pathan, Sean Abbott and Chris Jordan didn’t attract the bidders in the first round. They will now be reintroduced again later in the auction.

England captain Eoin Morgan was picked by the Kings XI Punjab for his base price of INR 2 crores. Pawan Negi the most expensive Indian player from the last auction was picked by RCB for 1 crore, his base price was 30 lakhs.

Here are some of the best reactions after Stokes’ auction:

Welcome to Pune @benstokes38 first round is on you!
— Steve Smith (@stevesmith49) February 20, 2017

Ben stokes economy rate as bowler in T20Is is 9.03. Hope he doesn't turn out to be an illusory allrounder for RPS.
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) February 20, 2017

Just for the fans of @BBL and @thePSLt20 to understand Ben Stokes price of $2.8 mill. His salary is twice the salary cap of each League! ?
— Dean Jones (@ProfDeano) February 20, 2017

With 14.5 crores in the bag Ben Stokes can start a PSL of his own #IPLAuction #IPL
— Virender Sehwag (@VirenderSehweg) February 20, 2017

.@benstokes38 & @tmills15 be like…#IPLAuction pic.twitter.com/6lZ3Im8Hfh
— ScoopWhoop News (@scoopwhoopnews) February 20, 2017

Ben Stokes can start his own IPL franchise and buy all the unsold players.#IPLAuction
— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) February 20, 2017

Ben Stokes sold for 14.5 crores.
Only Yuvraj Singh's (16 crores) by DD in @IPL 2015 has been a higher bid.#IPL2017 #IPLAucation
— Rajkumar (@khannachinna) February 20, 2017

Happiness is seeing @benstokes38 joining @msdhoni & @stevesmith49 rps is going to rock this ipl #IPLAuction
— arpit jain (@abheeyanta) February 20, 2017

Ben Stokes @benstokes38 To @RPSupergiants For This Edition Bought For A Record Price 14.50CR ??
— Vikram Vijay™ (@Im_VjFan) February 20, 2017

RPS in the last 24 hours
– Changed their captain from MS Dhoni to Steve Smith
– Bought Ben Stokes for 14.5 cr #IPLAuction
— Sarang Bhalerao (@bhaleraosarang) February 20, 2017

Ben Stokes will be playing alongside MS Dhoni, Steve Smith and other RPS players. #IPLAuction
Catch live here – https://t.co/hZ0Ynwnb3p pic.twitter.com/ZWVdEE8NJk
— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) February 20, 2017

Ben stokes is that "sharma ji ka beta" who is favorite of every parents #IPLAuction @RisingPune_SG @mipaltan
— suyogkeni (@suyogkeni) February 20, 2017

Ben Stokes no surprise, was expecting 8cr at the most. What a bidding war that was!
— Hardu (@Hardu_Habs) February 20, 2017

When u go for fishing and traps a big fish..it's always great…jst what @RisingPune_SG did…@benstokes38…#IPLAuction #IPL2017
— Pradnil Rajankar (@pradnil16) February 20, 2017

Ben Stokes was just bought for $2.82m which is about the same amount I owe in unpaid registration fees.
— The Grade Cricketer (@gradecricketer) February 20, 2017

@justbeauty18
Ben Stokes becomes the costliest overseas player ever! Goes to #RPS for Rs. 14.5 crore. #IPLAuction
— Minarul Islam (@MinarulTweet) February 20, 2017

All teams stoked for #BenStokes but finally RPS stoked well for him at 14.5 crores
. #IPLAuction @RPSupergiants
— Sir Rahul Gandhi (@SirRahulGandhi1) February 20, 2017

@IPL @benstokes38 @RPSupergiants I was expecting Viru paaji to suddenly jump in the bidding and take him away to KXIP.
— Suryansh Tripathi (@Suryansht17) February 20, 2017

Was expecting big money for @benstokes38 but this is a lot! Will have pressure on him to win games for #RPS
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) February 20, 2017

I guess @RPSupergiants gone mad from yesterday like removing Dhoni from captaincy. Now #BenStokes for 14.5 crs. #IPLAuction
— Shri Pravish (@pravish92) February 20, 2017

Root – I am the England Captain..
Ben Stokes – With my Package I can by 10 of Ur captain types #IPLAuction
— YOGI Indian (@ROFL_India) February 20, 2017

"We have many heroes but this is the one hero we were lacking." – Goenka on #BenStokes #IPLAuction
— Akash Sarkar (@AkashS08) February 20, 2017

@RPSupergiants @benstokes38 two back to back worst decisions by you…Fans wont support your Franchise anymore
— POWER⭐️ (@rajeshr90081) February 20, 2017