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He finished as the third-highest wicket-taker at the KPL and grabbed the attention of a few IPL scouts during the tournament.
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Cariappa is a leg spin bowler, whose stock delivery is the leg break. He has variations such as the googly, the quicker ball, the carrom ball as well as the off break which he bowls without changing the grip. Cariappa started playing cricket at the age of 17 as fast bowling all-rounder, but later switched to spin bowling.
In 2014, Cariappa played for the Karnataka Under-19 team and Bijapur Bulls in the Karnataka Premier League (KPL).
He was included in Karnataka"s 30-man probable squad for Ranji Trophy, but was not selected in the final squad. In September 2014, he was asked to bowl in the trials for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) during a training camp in Hyderabad before the start of 2014 Champions League Twenty20.
The captain of KKR, Gautam Gambhir failed to read his bowling during the trials, and the team management asked Cariappa to sign-up for the 2015 IPL auction. In February 2015, Cariappa was bought by KKR at the IPL auction for ₹24 million (United States$360,000), an unusually huge amount as Cariappa had not played any form of top-level cricket before he was signed-up by the Knight Riders.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kolkata Knight Riders, Venky Mysore responded after the auction, "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 made his senior cricket debut during the 2015 IPL for the Knight Riders against the Royal Challengers Bangalore on 11 April 2015 and picked up the wicket of Bachelor of Arts de Villiers but did not get any more chance to play.
He was dropped from their squad the very next season. At the next auction, he was picked up by Kings XI Punjab for a lower price of ₹8 million (United States$120,000).
