Bengaluru: Kolkata Knight Riders CEO and Managing Director Venky Mysore today said the team management decided to give a shot to K C Cariappa, who fetched a price tag of Rs 2.4 crore at IPL auction, after top players including Jacques Kallis found him extremely talented in one of their training camps.


Jacques Kallis. Pic/Suresh KK 

"Some of the top players that we have including the legendary Kallis found him (Cariappa) to be very unusual and extremely good, and we decided to give him a shot," he told reporters here.