#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.
#INDvsNZ#IndiaVsNewZealand #BanIPL
These are not Indian player ,
These are Businessman
Virat – Environmentalist nit Captain pic.twitter.com/tijYvaFOJK— 🆅🅸🆅🅴🅺 🆈🅰🅳🅰🆅 🌱 (@Viv1_Yadav_) October 31, 2021
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.
#BanIPL
Jab cricket team hi nahi samjhti India hone ka matlab.
IPL khilvalo in logo se.
Advertisement karva lo in logo se koi si bhi.
Khuch bhi bulvalo, sab khuch keh denge, par
Jab World Cup ki baari aayegi to
sab hag denge bhadiya se.
Hum kya chu*ia hai, IPL dekhenge. pic.twitter.com/8nUzB3yiRL— infinite possibilities (@infinite5858) October 31, 2021
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.
The 2010 T20 World Cup was also lost due to IPL, It is clear from today’s performance that BCCI has not learned anything.#BanIPL pic.twitter.com/zNhO8apM80
— Anish Singh (@The_anishsingh) October 31, 2021
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.”
#BCCI #BanIPL if IPL doesn’t get ban its shame for the country because it means that we want our country to be full of gamblers and improve satta rather than cricket r u not Ashamed of yourself that you lost two matches in world Cup guy’s have some shame let concentrate oncricket
— Shiba Army 🇮🇳 (@Mayur_Sharma87) November 1, 2021
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.
No need to #BanIPL! But its HIGH TIME @BCCI has IPL once in two years. Now with 2 more teams its gonna get worse. When there is a preparing time, #India plays great cricket like Aus n Eng test series. Had there been no IPL before this World cup the gap would have helped. #INDvNZ
— அப்துல் Bhaai (@NewBhaai) November 1, 2021
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.