IPL 2017 auction LIVE: English bowler Tyman Mills goes for Rs 12 cr to RCB on Business Standard. Tyman Mills was in demand as four teams bid for him

1. IPL 2017 auction LIVE: English bowler
Tyman Mills goes for Rs 12 cr to RCB
[Tyman Mills was in demand as four teams bid for him]
11: 00 am Tyman Mills was in demand as four teams bid for him, ultimately going to
RCB for Rs 12 crore. A total of Rs 6.9 crore was spent in acquiring fast bowlers while
wicketkeepers seemed out of favour as only one out of the batch of six found a buyer,
that too at base price
KKR entered the bidding for the first time this season with Trent Boult. The Knightriders have just
four overseas players in the squad currently and need more players from abroad. They were joined
in the bid battle by Mumbai Indians IPL Auctionwho bowed out at KKR’s bid of Rs 5 crore. Boult
played for the Hyderabad team in 2016 and this year, will don the KKR jersey.
English bowler Tyman Mills saw some aggressive bidding as well as Mumbai Indians and Kings XI
Punjab held their ground against each other. Both the teams did not shy from upping the stakes till
Mumbai bowed out at Punjab’s bid of Rs 7 crore. At this point, the bid war between KKR and RCB
started. RCB came out winner with a bid of Rs 12 crore.

2. Australian Patrick Cummins was fought over by Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Daredevil, the
former opening the bid at the reserve price of Rs 2 crore. They however bowed out at Rs 4.5 crore,
thus giving Delhi the winning bid and Cummins’ services for the 2017 edition. Fellow autralian
Mitchell Johnson was up next (base price Rs 2 crore). Mumbai Indians opened the bid for the fast
bowler and snapped him up at reserve price.
South African fast bowler Kyle Abbott (reserve price Rs 1.5 crore) went unsold. Indian fast bowler
Ishant Sharma (Rs 2 crore base price) shared the same fate, as he surprisingly remained unsold in
the first round of bidding.
After three unsold players in the wicketkeeper category, the Mumbai Indians picked up Nicholas
Pooran of West Indies at base price (Rs 30 lakh). The two wicketkeeprs to follow – West Inidan
Johnson Charles and Sri Lankan Dinesh Chandimal too remained unsold.
10:30 Ben Stokes goes to Pune for Rs 14.5 crAM England all-rounder Ben Stokes was the
costliest buy after the first round of IPL players' auction today, going to Rising Pune
Supergiants for a whopping Rs 14.50 crore (USD 2.16 million) after an intense bidding war. Pune
Supergiants, who removed Mahendra Singh Dhoni from captaincy, entered late into the bidding at
Rs 13 crore and clinched the deal at Rs 14.50 crore defeating bids from Mumbai Indians, Delhi
Daredevils, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Read More