In 2008, BCCI took a step to start a cricket league in India. At that time nobody, not even cricket officials & pundits were aware that this league would become one of the most celebrated & one of the most watched leagues across the globe. IPL started in 2008 & since then every year it has given us a different level of excitement.
But with all this excitement, IPL viewers or fans fall prey to some false news about Indian Premier League & those news become part of fan’s discussion. Let’s have a look on some of the myths that fans believe are true.
1) Sunrisers Hyderabad and Deccan Chargers are same team
Deccan Chargers was the team from Hyderabad that took part in the IPL from 2008 to 2012. The team won the title in 2009. But they went bankrupt in 2012 and Sunrisers Hyderabad got the chance to make their way. SRH are owned by Sun TV Network and the Marans while Deccan Chargers were owned by Gayatri Reddy and Deccan Chronicles. After DC’s termination for their financial crisis, Sun TV Network won the bid with Rs 85.05 crore per year.
2) Mumbai purchases umpires
Mumbai Indians are the most successful franchise in the IPL. They have won the title five times with their first title coming in 2013. However, many fans try to throw mud at their success and spread rumours that MI purchase umpires.
Such claims are not only false but also comical. Umpires’ errors are quite common and they happen quite often. After all, umpires are humans too. Except for some controversial errors, eg, MS Dhoni’s run out in 2019 and Steve Smith’s wide down the leg in IPL 2017, such errors are not visible in other games.
3) Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings did “match-fixing”
The Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals would like to vanish 2013 from their memories. The incidents that happened in 2013, made their image stained and till now they carry forward that past. In 2015, CSK and RR got banned for the next two years.
Their officials got banned for a lifetime, they can not take part in any matches conducted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Just because the teams were engaged in “fixing” fans often tend to think that the teams did “match-fixing”. While factually the teams were banned for betting and “spot-fixing”Spot-fixing is done based on the current situation of the game, which means when the game is on. Spot-fixing is fixing various instances whereas match-fixing is done before the game. In match-fixing, the results are pre-decided by the players or the officials.
4) Chris Morris is the highest-paid player
Chris Morris made a lot of noise after the IPL 2021 auction as his IPL salary jumped upto Rs.16.25 Crore. Rajasthan Royals went for the South African cricketer for a whopping amount.However, the fans believe that he is the most salaried player in the IPL. Which is not true. He was the highest auctioned player. But Virat Kohli is the highest-paid player in the IPL. RCB retained Kohli, their skipper, for ₹17 crores in 2018. Since then, he has earned that amount.
5) IPL is all fixed
A bunch of fans think IPL is just a showcase league. They believe IPL is scripted and has no authentication at all. This is the biggest myth that people believe. BCCI has the strongest law to keep the players and the officials away from fixing. For example, RR and CSK were banned for “spot-fixing”. Every year, many domestic players wait for being picked up by any franchise. Even the foreign players show a lot of interest in IPL. This myth should be dismissed without thinking twice.