As IPL teams have finally decided on which players they want to retain, Virat Kohli has emerged as the most Expensive player with 17 crores! IPL has always associated with expensive players who added glamour to the Tournament. Just take a look at the most expensive players IPL have seen since its emergence in 2008.
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Yuvraj Singh
Delhi Daredevils paid a whopping Rs 16 crore for the swashbuckling all-rounder back in 2015 — making him the record buy in the history of the IPL then. Incidentally, he was also the record the year before, when RCB paid a 14 crore to get his services but released him the following year because of his bad form and fitness.
MS Dhoni
MS Dhoni’s return to CSK was written in the stars and that did happen on Thursday when the IPL 2018 player retention took place.
CSK kept him for a whopping Rs 15 crore — the base salary for the first retained player. Along with him, CSK retained Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja.
Rohit Sharma
Mumbai Indians retained Rohit for the same amount as CSK did with MS Dhoni – Rs 15 crore.
Retaining Rohit was a no-brainer for Mumbai just like Kohli was for RCB. He has led them to three IPL titles in 2013, 2015 and 2017 — the most by any team in the tournament.
Ben Stokes
He was the star-attraction in 2017’s IPL auction and it was evident right from the beginning. He was priced at Rs 2 crore and was expected to go big and he did. So much so, that Mumbai Indians were holding the baton even before the auctioneer Richard Madley could name his base price. All eight franchises were after him and there was an aggressive battle between Mumbai Indians (MI), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Delhi Daredevils (DD).
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