IPL Auction 2018 Updates: Ben Stokes To Rajasthan, Starc To KKR, Gayle Unsold

IPL Auction : This year's auction features 580 players in all with 361 of them being Indians. There are 16 top players awarded marquee status and a base price of Rs 2 crore.

All of the cricket fraternity will come to a standstill when some of the world cricket's biggest names go under the hammer during the two-day IPL auction today with the likes of Ben Stokes and R Ashwin expected to be among the most sought after. This year's IPL Auction will feature 580 players in all with 361 of them being Indians. There are 16 top players awarded marquee status and a base price of Rs 2 crore with notable among them being  Stokes, Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Mitchell Starc, Chris Gayle, and Dwayne Bravo to name a few. There hasn't been an IPL auction of this magnitude since its inception in 2008.

A total of 26 players from England, 58 from Australia, 30 from New Zealand and 57 from South Africa have registered for the auction, taking the tally of overseas players to 282. Afghanistan too will see 13 players in the list while there are 39 from Sri Lanka and an equal number from the West Indies. Bangladesh and Zimbabwe have 8 and 7 players hoping to go under the hammer. Again hoping to show his full range of strokes in this edition's IPL will be Glenn Maxwell along with Mitchell Johnson, who bowled Mumbai Indians to their third title last season with his final over heroics.