Interest in the Indian Premier League has probably surpassed anything organisers could have hoped for. But as always seems the way with Indian cricket, talk of corruption is never far away.Betting on the tournament is reaching phenomenal levels with £1 billion wagering on each match. If that continues, total wagering on the event will come close to £90 billion.However, the threat of corruption still lingers, even more so now it has been revealed that officers from the International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption unit have left India.Gambling is currently illegal in India although the IPL has approached the Indian government for the activity to be legalised.
“We have 59 matches in all so by the end of the tournament there will have been about $180 billion bet on the matches. Betting is illegal in India and that doesn’t help. We need a regulated legal system rather than something that is underground,” said Singh Bindra, senior member of the IPL’s governing council.

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the petition seeking to restrain a team owned by liquor baron Vijay Mallya from playing in the Indian Premier League under the banner of ‘The Royal Challengers’.
The petition filed by a Faridabad-based resident, Kishan Kumar Aggarwal, alleged that under the garb of ‘The Royal Challengers Bangalore Team’, the United Breweries Group was seeking to promote its brands of liquor.

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In a thrilling match today in DLF – IPL, Chennai Super Kings defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 13 runs. Earlier Dhoni and Hussey played gem of an innings and took the score to 178 in 20 overs. Royal Challengers started the run chase with much confidence and Jaffer and Taylor both scored half centuries. They way the duo was batting it looked that Royal Challengers are upto a big fight today. But once the partnership was over, there was no batsmen who could take up the challenge. The fielding of the Chennai Super Kings was excellent and two run outs proved to be too heavy for the Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Dhoni seems to have immense faith in Joginder Sharma and it was again that Joginder was given the last over and he did not let the captain down.Royal Challengers have lost all the matches and Chennai Super Kings are on a winning path.

• Bangalore Royal Challengers innings Match Notes
• Bangalore Royal Challengers: 50 runs in 6.4 overs (43 balls), Extras 3
• 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 28 balls (W Jaffer 20, LRPL Taylor 28, Ex 2)
• Bangalore Royal Challengers: 100 runs in 10.5 overs (70 balls), Extras 5
• W Jaffer: 50 off 32 balls (5 x 4, 2 x 6)
• LRPL Taylor: 50 off 30 balls (3 x 4, 3 x 6)
• Bangalore Royal Challengers: 150 runs in 17.3 overs (111 balls), Extras 6

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In the 15th match of DLF- IPL Chennai Super Kings won the toss and decided to bat first. They lost Mathew Hayden when the total was 22 but this did not deter the run rate and they were maintaining the run rate of more than 7 almost in the entire match. Parthiv Patel was the next to go when the score was 42 in 6.3 overs. Hussey yet again played a useful innings and got on to score 47 runs in 36 balls. Raina stroked some good shots in a short cameo of 28 runs in 17 balls. After Raina got out, the captain Mahinder Singh Dhoni came into the center and played some exquisite shots and scored 65 runs in 30 balls. He showed the enormous talent he has by hitting some good bowls to the fence. His shots looked so effortless but the balls was racing to the fence at ultra high speed. Dhoni got his 50 in just 24 balls and scored 24 runs in the 19th over.In the last 5 over 76 runs were scored which helped in increasing the run rate to 8.90

It was the heroic of Dhoni and Hussey that helped Chennai Super Kings to post a target of 179 runs in 20 overs. Now its upto the bowlers to restrict the Royal Challengers and thus continue the winning stride.

• Chennai Super Kings Innings Match Notes
• Chennai Super Kings: 50 runs in 7.5 overs (49 balls), Extras 3
• Chennai Super Kings: 100 runs in 14.4 overs (90 balls), Extras 3
• 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 31 balls (MEK Hussey 28, MS Dhoni 22, Ex 0)
• Chennai Super Kings: 150 runs in 18.3 overs (114 balls), Extras 4
• MS Dhoni: 50 off 24 balls (7 x 4, 2 x 6)

Click Here For Scorecard – Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Chennai Super Kings – 15th Match

Today was the day when Harbhajan Singh was again proved guilty and was imposed a ban of 11 IPL matches. The decision was taken by match referee Farookh Engineer and the decision was told to media by Lalit Modi. This was a big setback for Harbhajan Singh and also for the Mumbai Indians. It should be stated that Harbhajan Singh slapped Sreesanth after the match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab. Harbhajan Singh presented a letter before the commission and regretted for his actions which hurt Sreesanth’s feelings. The turbanator had already admitted to the media persons of getting physical with Sreesanth. Slapping a fellow player constitutes a Level 4 offence as per the ICC Code of Conduct and carries a maximum punishment of a life ban or a minimum of five Tests or 10 ODIs for India’s premier off-spinner.Lalit Modi And Farookh Engineer had a serious stand and they were firm in dealing the case with severity as the whole prestige of DLF – IPL was on stake after the incident.Sreesanth’s role as provocative was also noticed and it is said that he may also have to pay some fine.

Earlier in the day, the BCCI had appointed advocate Sudhir Nanavati as commissioner to conduct a preliminary inquiry into
“As per the constitution, BCCI has appointed Sudhir Nanavati, advocate, Ahmedabad as commissioner to make preliminary inquiry and call for explanation from the concerned person(s) and submit his report within 15 days to BCCI president Sharad Pawar to look into the matter of disciplinary action against Harbhajan Singh,” the cricket board issued a statement in the morning.

So Mumbai Indians have suffered a huge blow and this can further intensify the problems for them. Already they have lost all the matches so far in DLF – IPL and now they have also lost a champion bowler for 11 matches.