5 Dark secrets of the IPL we aren't aware of

2. Fixing demons of the past

The incident which happened in 2013 has kept haunting the tournament’s image and its scars are still pretty visible. S Sreesanth, Ankit Chavan and Ajit Chandila were banned from playing international or domestic cricket after their alleged involvement in match-fixing, which saw the whole nation mourn the degradation of the sport.

Plenty of other games that went down to the final overs have been questioned and pointed out regularly, as the doubts do come creeping in over the legality of the games. A lot of fans who have been watching the game for decades have already stopped watching the tournament and despite no other fixing incident coming up in the news, later on, the allegations never left.

Is the tournament far from fixing? That is one question not many people guarantee, even the experts but one thing is certain that the number of players working their socks off to earn their paychecks is way higher than the ones who are trying to tarnish the game’s image.