Sanjiv Goenka Calcutta: Sanjiv Goenka, chairman of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group and owner of the Rising Pune Supergiants, spoke to The Telegraph on Monday evening. It's not that we were looking to make the headlines... As for the auction proper, I'd been very confident about getting Ben Stokes. Stokes took to the auction as very hot property, but a record-rewriting Rs 14.5 crore... That's huge... Actually, I'd been willing to spend Rs 15 crore, so Stokes came within our budget... Smith definitely wanted Stokes, but so did I. I'm delighted the auction went according to our plans and we got all our first-choice players.

Source: The Telegraph February 20, 2017 21:37 UTC