What if: IPL had started in 2000

#5 RCB still wouldn’t have won the IPL

Kohli’s wait would have continued

Water is wet, sugar is sweet and RCB are trophyless. There are facts of life that are truer than truth itself and we must accept them. And RCB’s ability to win the IPL or rather the lack of it despite boasting of some of the biggest stars must constitute a kind of rule or would you rather call it a curse?

Going by RCB’s nature, the team from the Garden City would have roped in the likes of Rahul Dravid, Nathan Astle, Herschelle Gibbs and Ricky Ponting – making them as top heavy as water. Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath might have had to bear the brunt of the attack alongside some not-so-prodigious talents resulting in the team again failing to live up to the expectations of their fans.

Cricket would have truly had its equivalent of the Chicago Cubs.