Ashok Dinda (Rising Pune Supergiants) – INR 50 lakh
Once Indian national team pacer Ashok Dinda once again showed his bowling ability through the IPL 2016. Dinda was bought by Rising Pune Supergiants (RPS) for INR 50 lakh from IPL Auction 2016.
32-years old Ashok Dinda played 9 matches where he grabbed 11 wickets. He received “Player of the Match Award” twice for his good bowling efforts. Those two times were against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at Hyderabad (Deccan) and Delhi Daredevils (DD) at Visakhapatnam where he picked up 3 wickets at each time. Though inconsistency was his biggest problem in the IPL 2016 like his entire career, but he put effort on it and produced an improve performance in IPL 2016.