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Stokes is England's highest-paid cricketer after signing for Indian Premier League franchise Rising Pune Supergiant for INR 14.5 crore.

The cricketer, who got engaged to his fiancee Dani Willis in New York last week, admitted that he was awestruck by Dharamshala's beauty but Pune is still his favourite city in India.

Smith reportedly met Willis, a law student, at a bar during the first season of the Big Bash League in 2011.

But the Australia captain could have been forgiven for wondering why he`d said anything at all as England all-rounder Stokes`s blistering unbeaten century condemned Smith`s men to an early Champions Trophy exit at Edgbaston on Saturday.

Former England captain Strauss said he would be reluctant to let senior players go to the IPL if it meant they were unavailable for Test duty.

Warner personally had a hugely satisfying tournament for him as he topped the run-scorers list with 641 runs from 14 games.

While some credit the entire bowling unit, others to the clever field set-up, but a lot goes out to Mitchell Johnson, who held onto his nerves in the final over, brought all his experience to use and restricted Pune from their maiden title.

RPS were up to the task as far as the first half of the deciding encounter is concerned, after their bowlers and fielders did some amazing work to restrict them to a moderate total of 129 runs. 

While Mumbai Indians went ahead to script history, becoming the first team to win three IPL trophies, when they defeated Rising Pune Supergiant in a pulsating Sunday finale at Hyderabad, there was this one Twitterati who made predictions, much ahead of the match and almost all of them were right.

Australian fast bowler Mitchel Johnson was the most successful for Mumbai with figures of 3/26.

The Chennai franchise were serving a suspension after the Supreme Court-led Lodha panel recommended a ban for them as well as the Rajasthan Royals from the IPL for two years.

The Supergiant's Twitter account posted a meme of Rohit Sharma crying but later deleted it.

The aunty whose identity remained anonymous throughout the match was, in fact, Nita Ambani's mother Purnima Dalal.

Mumbai Indians' camp would be relieved after the win as they not only lost to Pune twice in the league stage, but also in Qualifier 1, post which they had to beat Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to seal their berth for the final.

Rising Pune Supergiant were on course to win the title but the MI pace trio of Lasith Malinga, Jasprit Bumrah and Mitchell Johnson choked the rivals to script a thrilling win.

For Pune, skipper Steve Smith looked like a lone warrior in the middle but his 50-ball 51 proved just short as MI fought back to snatch a win and turn 4th time lucky.

This was Mumbai Indians' third IPL trophy in 10 editions and more special for their skipper Rohit Sharma, who is the only captain to win a hat-trick of titles. Rohit has in fact won four IPL titles (one for Deccan Chargers in 2009).

But Pune lost the match, despite a valiant 51 off 50 from Smith, by one run in the last-ball thriller.

As far as the first half of the match is concerned, it all executed as per plans by Steve Smith, with of course some valuable inputs form MS Dhoni.