IPL : A game of cricket or a way to make illegal money????????

 So finally its clear and out.....Rs 40,000 crore bet on this IPL.   Whose money is this? Who all are involved? Where does this money go? And most importantly where this money is used? Many questions but no answers, only guesses. Delhi police arrested three players of Rajasthan Royals in connection with betting on IPL matches. But is it the whole case or just the tip of an iceberg? News channels said that these players were given around Rs 60 lac each for fixing one over of there overs. And bookies made around Rs 20 crore from each over which were fixed. Imagine the amount of money involved in a full match.

Big business houses own these teams. They have invested millions and billions of money on these teams. For them it is a part of investment and every business men invest only to get profit out of it. For us it is another form of cricket but for them it is another opportunity to make money. 

Apart from it, if you observe the whole ambit of IPL, you will find more of glamour than cricket. Everybody is talking about the cheerleaders, after match parties, involvement of famous celebrities more than about the game of cricket. Even players are more in news for things other than their performances in the ground.

Money, stardom, parties,etc. have become heavier than the core game of cricket.

Most of the players who have never seen such things in their entire career are getting so much of this together that it has become difficult for them to handle all of this.

Police said that three games of IPL 6 were fixed. But the type of cricket played in many of the matches made us think otherwise. I was amazed to see few of the catches dropped in some matches. It seems that the whole event is not about the game but only about making money.

Now if you say that only these three players namely Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan of Rjasthan Royals were involved and rest of the game is clean, than I doubt. police itself is claiming that underworld's involvement cannot be ignored. 

The irony is that underworld puts money on such events and makes money out of it and then uses the same for terrorist activities in our country.

Yesterday only i heard the news in Aaj Tak channel that it seems that the final of IPL will be played between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indian will win this event.

So if everything is fixed then what is the use of holding tournaments.Why are you playing with the emotions of people for whom cricket is like a religion.

I think if police or BCCI or Govt., is not capable of stopping this racket of match fixing then this event should be banned. anyways what is the use of watching games where results are already fixed.