IPL auction had one unique bid that have raised many questions among the cricketing fans. The name KC Cariappa has been new to the cricket industry but is a big fish when it comes to IPL bidding made by the KKR this season.

KC Cariappa got into the eyes of the selectors in the Karnataka Premier League and was then being purchased for an astonishing amount of 2.4 crore ($400,000) in the IPL 2015 auction.

No one knew about KC Cariappa till he was purchased by the defending IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders. He was purchased at Rs 2.4 crore which is 24 times the amount of his base price and this makes him overpass many of the other senior and talented cricketers.

Konganda Charamanna Cariappa is a 20-year-old leg spinner from Coorg in /Karnataka. He has been tagged as the off-break bowler by the BCCI and the Karnataka State Cricket Association, while in actual he is primarily a leg spinner and has a grip that facilitates him to bowl both off breaks and leg breaks.

He is tall when it comes to height of the spinners that India has produced; he is 5 feet 11 inches tall and with that height bowlers try to be a seam bowler usually. He might get advantage of his height while bowling with an orthodox round-arm action.

Some of the key things that makes this young talent lot different than the other spinners is the stock ball that he is has, not only this but he also has variations like the googly which can deceit the batsman and the faster one that can prove to be a handy trick. He also has one unique quality of bowling off-spinners without changing the grip.