High stakes: An intense scramble for Ben Stokes made the English all-rounder the most expensive overseas signing at an IPL auction. What followed was an intense scramble for his services, eventually making the English all-rounder the most expensive overseas signing at an IPL auction. Karn Sharma emerged the most expensive Indian player of the tenth IPL auction, heading to Mumbai Indians for 3.2 crore. FrenzyA hitherto quiet morning was suddenly enlivened when Stokes’ name came up for auction, in the second lot of names. Mumbai carried on, seemingly prepared to exhaust its purse of 11.55 crore purse, before the price soared past that figure.

Source: The Hindu February 20, 2017 19:15 UTC