#BanIPL trends on Twitter after India’s second successive defeat

#BanIPL trends on Twitter after India’s second successive defeat

#BanIPL trends on Twitter after India’s second successive defeat

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#BanIPL became the top trend in India on Sunday as disappointed cricket fans blamed the Indian Premier League (IPL) for their team’s poor performance in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

India sustained their second successive defeat in the mega event against New Zealand. The Men-in-Blue had just managed to post 110 runs for seven wickets, which they could not defend and lost the contest by eight wickets.

Chances of Men-in-blue qualifying for the semi-finals have become bleak and now they are on the verge of making an early exit from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

An angry cricketing fan compared their national players with businessmen thinks that the Indian players are businessmen.

Another enthusiast contemplates that Men-in-Blue need to know the meaning of being an Indian, adding that they are only good for appearing in advertisements.

A cricket lover posted a screenshot of news from 2010 where the then captain MS Dhoni had blamed the cash-rich league for their debacle in the T20 World Cup and stated that since then Board of Control for Cricket in India has not learned anything.

A Twitter user maintained that if IPL isn’t still banned, it would be a shame for the country because “it means that we want our country to be full of gamblers.”

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Another fan suggested that instead of banning the league, the BCCI should hold the tournament on a biennial basis. He believed that if India had not played the IPL, they probably had prepared better for the World cup.

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IPL, started back in 2008, have recently welcomed two new franchises which will impact the length of the tournament as the number of matches will further increase and will go up to 74 in the upcoming edition.

Earlier, Virat Kohli and his men were thrashed by their arch-rivals Pakistan in the first match of the tournament by 10 wickets. It was the Men-in-Greens first-ever win against the neighbours in a World Cup fixture.

India will now play Afghanistan at Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi on November 3 and will try to keep their ‘fading hopes’ of qualifying in the final four alive.

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