IPL 2017: Fans hoping these expensive players are worth it

Ben Stokes Rising Pune Supergiant Rs 145 croreBen Stokes has firmly established himself as one of the best allrounders The 25yearold will be itching to prove his worth with both bat and ball at Rising Pune Supergiant having scored 192 runs at a strike rate of 13617 and claimed 10 wickets in 21 T20Is for EnglandTymal Mills Royal Challengers Bangalore Rs 12 croreRoyal Challengers Bangalore will expect the seasonrsquos second biggest buy mdash Tymal Mills to deliver the goods in the absence of Aussie pacer Mitchell Starc The leftarm pacer has just played four T20Is for England The 24yearold claimed seven wickets in five games in this yearrsquos Pakistan Super LeagueKagiso Rabada Delhi Daredevils Rs 5 croreDaredevils will be hoping South African paceman Kagiso Rabadarsquos fine form guides them to a maiden IPL title The 21yearold who regularly bowls at 140150 kmph has claimed eight wickets each in the recentlyconcluded ODI and Test series in New ZealandTrent Boult Kolkata Knight Riders Rs 5 croreKolkata Knight Riders will not want Trent Boultrsquos recent groin injury that ruled him out of the second and third Test vs South Africa affect him in the IPL The NZ pacer will be under pressure after going for 39 in his only match for Sunrisers in 2016Pat Cummins Delhi Daredevils Rs 45 croreThe 23yearold was rewarded with an Australia Test callup after six years days after being picked up by Delhi Daredevils The rightarm pacer didnrsquot disappoint by picking up eight wickets in two games in the Test series vs IndiaMumbai IndiansRohit Sharmac Kieron Pollard Lasith Malinga Harbhajan Singh Ambati Rayudu Jasprit Bumrah Shreyas Gopal Lendl Simmons Vinay Kumar Parthiv Patel Mitchell McClenaghan Nitish Rana Siddhesh Lad J Suchith Hardik Pandya Jos Buttler Tim Southee Jithesh Sharma Krunal Pandya Deepak Punia Nicholas Pooran Mitchell Johnson K Gowtham Karn Sharma Saurabh Tiwary Asela Gunaratne K KhejroliyaSunrisers HyderabadDavid Warnerc Shikhar Dhawan Bhuvneshwar Kumar Moises Henriques Naman Ojha Ricky Bhui Kane Williamson Siddarth Kaul Bipul Sharma Ashish Nehra Yuvraj Singh Ben Cutting Abhimanyu Mithun Mustafizur Rahman Barinder Sran Deepak Hooda Vijay Shankar Tanmay Agarwal Mohammad Nabi Ekalavya Dwivedi Rashid Khan Pravin Tambe Chris Jordan Ben Laughlin Mohammed SirajDelhi DaredevilsZaheer Khanc Mohammed Shami Shahbaz Nadeem Jayant Yadav Amit Mishra Shreyas Iyer Sam Billings Sanju Samson Chris Morris Carlos Brathwaite Karun Nair Rishabh Pant CV Milind Syed Ahmed Pratyush Singh Angelo Mathews Corey Anderson Kagiso Rabada Pat Cummins Ankit Bawne Aditya Tare Murugan Ashwin Navdeep Saini Shashank Singh Khaleel AhmedGujarat LionsSuresh Rainac Ravindra Jadeja James Faulkner Brendon McCullum Dwayne Bravo Aaron Finch Dwayne Smith Dinesh Karthik Dhawal Kulkarni Praveen Kumar Andrew Tye Ishan Kishan Pradeep Sangwan Shivil Kaushik Shadab Jakati Jaydev Shah Nathu Singh Basil Thampy Tejas Singh Baroka Manpreet Gony Jason Roy Munaf Patel Chirag Suri Shelly Shaurya Shubham Agrawal Pratham Singh Aksh Deep NathKings XI PunjabGlenn Maxwellc David Miller Manan Vohra Axar Patel Gurkeerat Singh Anureet Singh Sandeep Sharma Shaun Marsh Wriddhiman Saha Nikhil Naik Mohit Sharma Marcus Stoinis KC Cariappa Armaan Jaffer Pardeep Sahu Swapnil Singh Hashim Amla Eoin Morgan Rahul Tewatia Thangarasu Natarajan Matt Henry Varun Aaron Martin Guptill Darren Sammy Rinku SinghRising Pune SupergiantSteven Smithc MS Dhoni Ajinkya Rahane Shardul Thakur Faf du Plessis Mitchell Marsh Ashok Dinda Ankush Bains Rajat Bhatia Ankit Sharma Ishwar Pandey Adam Zampa Jaskaran Singh Baba Aparajith Deepak Chahar Usman Khawaja Mayank Agarwal Ben Stokes Jaydev Unadkat Rahul Chahar Saurabh Kumar Dan Christian Milind Tandon R Tripathi Manoj Tiwary Lockie FergusonKolkata Knight RidersGautam Gambhirc Sunil Narine Kuldeep Yadav Manish Pandey Suryakumar Yadav Piyush Chawla Robin Uthappa Chris Lynn Shakib Al Hasan Umesh Yadav Yusuf Pathan Sheldon Jackson Ankit Singh Rajput Trent Boult Chris Woakes Rishi Dhawan Nathan CoulterNile Rovman Powell R Sanjay Yadav Ishank Jaggi Darren Bravo Sayan GhoshRoyal Challengers BangaloreVirat Kohlic AB de Villiers Chris Gayle Yuzvendra Chahal Harshal Patel Mandeep Singh Adam Milne Sarfaraz Khan S Aravind Kedar Jadhav Shane Watson Stuart Binny Samuel Badree Iqbal Abdulla Travis Head Sachin Baby Avesh Khan Tabraiz Shamsi Pawan Negi Tymal Mills Aniket Choudhary Praveen Dubey Billy Stanlake