{"id":25723,"date":"2018-01-27T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/27\/ben-stokes-bags-1-4m-deal-with-rajasthan-royals-in-ipl-auction\/"},"modified":"2018-01-27T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T13:40:00","slug":"ben-stokes-bags-1-4m-deal-with-rajasthan-royals-in-ipl-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=25723","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stokes bags \u00a31.4m deal with Rajasthan Royals in IPL auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 England captain Joe Root goes unsold, along with Chris Gayle\u2022 Jos Buttler also signs for Rajasthan, while Woakes fetches \u00a3820,000Ben Stokes\u2019 pending court case did little to affect his market value at the Indian Premier League auction in Bengaluru as the Rajasthan Royals paid almost \u00a31.4m for the all-rounder. But the England Test captain Joe Root went unsold.In 2017, Stokes became the competition\u2019s most expensive signing with a \u00a31.7m deal with Rising Pune Supergiant and his performances earned him the award for the most valuable player. It was thought uncertainty over his availability would diminish his appeal. Stokes has a court date at Bristol magistrates on 13 February. He can be replaced should he become unavailable for the whole tournament. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/jan\/27\/ben-stokes-ipl-auction-rajasthan-royals\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Stokes bags \u00a31.4m deal with Rajasthan Royals in IPL auction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 England captain Joe Root goes unsold, along with Chris Gayle\u2022 Jos Buttler also signs for Rajasthan, while Woakes fetches \u00a3820,000Ben Stokes\u2019 pending court case did little to affect his market value at the Indian Premier League auction in Bengaluru as the Rajasthan Royals paid almost \u00a31.4m for the all-rounder. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}