Which is no 1 Fixing Team in IPL?
When a national cricket league, IPL was announced by BCCI, a governing cricket board in India in 2007, and successfully started in 2008 with its inaugural season, it became a golden opportunity for Indians to showcase their hidden talent in front of the world. The league became more popular because of its thrilling matches and the participation of the top international players from different countries, and it got too many fans worldwide in a few years.
However, after a few years, the Indian Premier League faced some tough moments because of match-fixing, spot-fixing, and betting scandal cases in 2012 and 2013. Mumbai Police arrested some players for alleged betting and spot-fixing. There is not a single team that is definitively labeled the No. 1 IPL fixing team. However, the Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings were suspended from the IPL for two years, in 2016 and 2017 because of their involvement in activities of the IPL spot-fixing scandal. Some players initially faced punishment but were later cleared by the courts.
Here we have gone into the in-depth detail of the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal cases, the persons behind these conspiracies, the Indian courts’ action against the persons involved in this spot-fixing case, the punishment the courts gave to the IPL franchises, banned for two years in 2016 and 2017 Seasons and the most important thing is how all this did?
Which is no 1 Fixing Team in IPL?
Before the proper investigation about a team to blame that is IPL’s number 1 fixing team is just to blame, nothing else. Here we are to investigate the famous fixing moments that occurred during the IPL matches and that IPL fans have seen.
Some of the famous fixing moments we have revealed the below article you can read, and the BCCI took action against those who were involved in those cases, but one thing is to make sure that there is not a single IPL team to consider as the IPL number 1 fixing team.
2012 IPL spot-fixing and betting case:
There was a controversy, spot-fixing occurred in the TATA IPL 2012 during the match event and was exposed when an Indian news channel, India TV caught the five cricketers asking for money (illegal cash) in return for spot-fixing, as a result, the cricketer TP Sudhindra was permanently banned by the BCCI from any type of cricket (domestic and international) while the other four cricketers Abhinav Bali, Amit Yadav, Mohnish Mishra, and Shalabh Srivastava were suspended temporarily.
| Players | Banned |
|---|---|
| TP Sudhindra | Banned for lifetime |
| Shalabh Srivastava | Banned for 5 years |
| Mohnish Mishra | Banned for 1 year |
| Amit Yadav | Banned for 1 year |
| Abhinav Bali | Banned for 1 year |
In a secret video recording, Mohnish Mishra said there were the IPL team owners also involved and they had given players’ money in return for spot-fixing but later he retracted his statement and apologized for what he said was untrue. Abhinav Bali, one of the above banned players admitted that he was also involved in the IPL previous season 9th, not just the IPL 2012 spot-fixing. The sting operation revealed to some of the players that were in connection and had received more money from the IPL franchises’ owners and agreed with them from the auction before. The money had taken was the black money.
2013 IPL spot-fixing and betting case:
In 2013, Delhi Police arrested three players named Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan, and Sreesanth for allegedly fixing parts of the game and they were all playing for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2013. On the other hand, Mumbai Police arrested the principal of Chennai Super Kings Gurunath Meiyappan, Priyank Sepany (diamond dealer), and Vindu Dara Singh Indian actor in the case of betting on the match.
In 2015, the RM Lodha Committee took strict action against the Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals because they participated in match betting spot-fixing which is against the Indian Cricket Law, and the teams got banned for two years, in 2016 and 2017. The three players Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan, and Sreesanth were cleared of all charges by Patiala House Courts because the evidence they found against the players was insufficient and not enough to prove that the players were involved in the match-fixing case. The players were legally free from criminal charges.