Top 10 Most expensive players bought in the IPL 2016 auction

8. Murugan Ashwin – RPS (4.5 crores):

Perhaps the biggest gainer of the auction, M Ashwin must be a happy man. Having a base price of 10 lakhs, he fetched a deal 45 times of his original price, to bag 4.5 crores at the auction. Although Murugan Ashwin has only 3 first-class games under his belt, his recent good show at the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy fetched him the big amount. Having played in 6 T20s in the tournament, and picked 10 wickets at a highly impressive economy of mere 5.52. He was picked by the Rising Pune Supergiants.

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