“You realise one thing right? IPL is going to help not just Indian cricket but overseas players. The younger inexperienced Indians would benefit the most by associating with overseas professionals, and the overseas cricketers are going to get invaluable exposure to Indian conditions. In future, that old mystery about India won’t be there and I am talking about Test tours here, not T20 cricket. Hey, I am already missing Jaipur and using the conditions there to my team’s advantage!” It was Shane Warne talking, laughing and nailing the cricketing truth far before anyone else could visualise it. We were at the diamond town of Kimberly in South Africa where Warne’s Rajasthan Royals were set to face MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings in 2009, the year when IPL was forced to find a new home. It wasn’t exactly clear then how the mysticism and exoticism of India would be stripped by a T20 tournament. IPL’s longevity wasn’t clear then. But the visionary Warne could see. Tempted out of retirement for the tournament, he had the foresight …