Freshly-Appointed Captain Steve Smith Welcomes Ben Stokes to Pune

Ben Stokes has became the most expensive foreign player in the IPL history.

Freshly-appointed captain of just one day, Aussie cricketer Steve Smith welcomed Ben Stokes to the Rising Pune Supergiants.

Welcome to Pune @benstokes38 first round is on you!

— Steve Smith (@stevesmith49) February 20, 2017

The English all-rounder was sold for a whopping Rs 14.50 crore and became the most expensive foreign player in IPL history on Monday.

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Interestingly, the Pune Supergiants, who came in the auction with Rs 17.50 crore, were left with just Rs 3 crore after picking up Stokes. Subsequently, they bought all-rounder Danil Christian for Rs 1 crore, Daniel Christian for Rs 30 lakh and Jaydev Unadkat, Rahul Chahar, Saurabh Kumar, Milind Tandon and Rahul Ajay Tripathi for Rs 10 lakh each.

More Money Than PSL? Twitter Reacts

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

Great to see so many English players going to be in the @IPL ! Awesome competition 🙌🏼 your round @tmills15 @benstokes38 ! 😂👍🏼

— Sam Billings (@sambillings) February 20, 2017

Ben Stokes setting the auction on fire!

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) February 20, 2017

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@benstokes38 Sold for Rs 14.85 Cr in the #IPLAuction that amount is equal to the winner of PSL😂😂

— Jitvar Singh (@jitu2310_2501) 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

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