IPL: All about one of India's first unicorns, what to expect from auction

It will be IPL's 15th season this April and this would be the fifth mega-auction, apart from the 10 earlier ones where only some players took part. That makes it one every 365 days

Virat Kohli hadn’t played a ball in international cricket then, chartered accountants across the country were still trying to decipher the intricacies of the Value Added Tax, ex-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had made his last public speech just about a year ago and the euphoria of Mahendra Singh Dhoni lifting the World T-20 trophy-–after Santhakumaran Sreesanth caught Pakistan’s Misbah-ul-Haq off the bowling of Joginder Sharma-–was like fresh paint.

That was April 2008! India’s billion baby, one of its first Unicorns, Indian Premier League (IPL) was born. And, it’s been one roller-coaster after another. Shane Warne’s Rajasthan Royals won the