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Ben Stokes is the most expensive English cricketer ever and Tymal Mills will earn more than £3,600 per ball - the money spinning Indian Premier League is set to start.

The IPL reaches a decade of splashing the cash with all the best cricketers in the world descending on India to play in front of packed houses.

England all-rounder Stokes became the costliest foreign player when he was offered £1.8m to play for Rising Pune Supergiants.

While fast bowler Mills, who has never played Test cricket, in on £1.5m to star for Royal Challengers.

They head up a series of English players - with Chris Jordan, Jos Buttler, Eoin Morgan, Jason Roy, Sam Billings and Chris Woakes all travelling to the sub-continent.

Here is all you need to know ahead of the IP...

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What channel is it on?

The place to go to catch all the action is Sky Sport - the matches on channels 1, 2 and 3 - with the tournament starting on Wednesday, April 5.

Who are the stars?

Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bangalore): Current Indian team captain and number one T20 batsman is one of the most explosive players in this format of the game. No wonder he is the highest earning player this season.

MS Dhoni (Rising Pune Supergiant): Former Indian team captain will bring with him the experience and his calm head which should work to his team's advantage and makes him an indispensable member.

Ben Stokes (Rising Pune Supergiant): The highest earning foreign player this season is definitely one to look forward to. The Pune franchise had to toil to get his signature.

Kieron Pollard (Mumbai Indians): The West Indies all-rounder has been pivotal for Mumbai. His 1751 runs along with 56 wickets justifies the high price the franchise paid for him.

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Which Englishmen?

English players are one of the highest-paid players in this season of IPL. Rising Pune Supergiant paid a massive £1.8m for Ben Stokes who is the highest-earning international player in the league this season.

Another Englishman, Tymal Mills, has been bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore for a sum of £1.48m making him one of the top 10 highest-paid players this season.

Some of the other English players in the IPL are Sam Billings, Chris Woakes, Eoin Morgan, Chris Jordan and Jos Buttler.

(Image: Gareth Copley)

(Image: Gareth Copley)

Team profiles and squad list

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Owner: Royal Challengers Sports Private Ltd.

Home Ground: M. Chinnaswamy Stadium

Coach: Daniel Vettori

Team:

Virat Kohli (Captain), Shane Watson, Billy Stanlake, Tabraiz Shamsi, Sachin Baby, Harshal Patel, Pawan Negi, Adam Milne,Tymal Mills, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Kedar Jadhav, Iqbal Abdulla, Travis Head, Chris Gayle, Praveen Dubey, AB De Villiers, Aniket Choudhary, Yuzvendra Chahal, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Avesh Khan, Sreenath Aravind

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Sunrisers Hyderabad

Owner: SUN TV Network

Home Ground: Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium

Coach Tom Moody

Team:

David Warner (Captain), Tanmay Agarwal, Ricky Bhui, Bipul Sharma, Ben Cutting, Shikhar Dhawan, Eklavya Dwivedi, Moises Henriques, Deepak Hooda, Chris Jordan, Siddharth Kaul, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ben Laughlin, Abhimanyu Mithun, Mohammad Nabi, Mohammed Siraj, Mustafizur Rahman, Ashish Nehra, Naman Ojha, Rashid Khan, Vijay Shankar, Barinder Sran, Pravin Tambe, Kane Williamson, Yuvraj Singh

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Rising Pune Supergiant

Owner: RPSG Group

Home Ground: Maharashtra Cricket Association's International Stadium

Coach: Stephen Fleming

Team:

Steve Smith (Captain), Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Sharma, Baba Aparajith, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Deepak Chahar, Rahul Chahar, Dan Christian, MS Dhoni, Ashok Dinda, Faf du Plessis, Lockie Ferguson, Imran Tahir, Jaskaran Singh, Usman Khawaja, Ajinkya Rahane, Saurabh Kumar, Ben Stokes, Milind Tandon, Manoj Tiwary, Adam Zampa, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishwar Pandey, Rahul Tripathi, Shardul Thakur

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Mumbai Indians

Owner: Indiawin Sports Private Ltd.

Home Ground: Wankhede Stadium

Coach: Mahela Jayawardene

Team:

Rohit Sharma (Captain), Jasprit Bumrah, Jos Buttler, Shreyas Gopal, Krishnappa Gowtham, Asela Gunaratne, Harbhajan Singh, Mitchell Johnson, Kulwant Khejroliya, Siddesh Lad, Mitchell McClenaghan, Lasith Malinga, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Parthiv Patel, Kieron Pollard, Nicholas Pooran, Deepak Punia, Nitish Rana, Ambati Rayadu, Jitesh Sharma, Karn Sharma, Lendl Simmons, Tim Southee, Jagadeesha Suchith, Saurabh Tiwary, Vinay Kumar

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Kolkata Knight Riders

Owner: Knight Riders Sports Private Ltd.

Home Ground: Eden Gardens

Coach: Simon Katich

Team:

Gautam Gambhir (Captain), Trent Boult, Darren Bravo, Piyush Chawla, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Colin de Grandhomme, Rishi Dhawan, Sayan Ghosh, Sheldon Jackson, Ishank Jaggi, Kuldeep Yadav, Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Rovman Powell, Ankit Rajpoot, R Sanjay Yadav, Shakib Al Hasan, Robin Uthappa, Chris Woakes, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav

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Kings XI Punjab

Owner: KPH Dream Cricket Private Limited

Home Ground: IS Bindra Stadium

Coach: Sanjay Bangar

Team:

Murali Vijay (Captain), Varun Aaron, Hashim Amla, Anureet Singh, Arman Jaffer, KC Cariappa, Martin Guptill, Gurkeerat Mann Singh, Matt Henry, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, David Miller, Eoin Morgan, Nikhil Naik, T Natarajan, Axar Patel, Wriddhiman Saha, Pradeep Sahu, Darren Sammy, Sandeep Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Rinku Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Swapnil Singh, Rahul Tewatia, Manan Vohra

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Gujarat Lions

Owner: Intex Technologies

Home Ground: Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium

Coach: Brad Hodge

Team:

Suresh Raina (Captain), Akshdeep Nath, Shubham Agarwal, Basil Thampi, Dwayne Bravo, Chirag Suri, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Manpreet Gony, Ishan Kishan, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati, Dinesh Karthik, Shivil Kaushik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar, Brendon McCullum, Munaf Patel, Pratham Singh, Jason Roy, Pradeep Sangwan, Jaydev Shah, Shelly Shaurya, Nathu Singh, Dwayne Smith, Tejas Baroka, Andrew Tye

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Delhi Daredevils

Owner: GMR Sports Pvt Ltd.

Home Ground: Feroz Shah Kotla Ground

Coach: Paddy Upton

Team:

Zaheer Khan (Captain), Ankit Bawne, Khaleed Ahmed, Corey Anderson, Murugan Ashwin, Sam Billings, Carlos Brathwaite, Pat Cummins, Quinton de Kock, Shreyas Iyer, Angelo Mathews, CV Milind, Amit Mishra, Mohammed Shami, Chris Morris, Shahbaz Nadeem, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant, Pratyush Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Navdeep Saini, Sanju Samson, Shashank Singh, Aditya Tare, Jayant Yadav