50,000 for the ball crossing the boundary by the ground route, Rs.100,000 for a sixer. Photo: IPL
Karachi: The IPL has become a league of sixes, gamblers have become sleazeballs as everything from the playing eleven to fours and sixes is wagered on.
Every year the Indian Premier League is awaited by the betting mafia more than the fans, there is a lot of gambling in it, according to the BBC report, the bets start before the match starts, first of all who is playing. A bet is made on who will be in the XI and who will sit out, after which money is placed on the toss, the result of the match is bet on fours and sixes on one side.
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If a four hits as per the gambler’s prediction, they get 50 thousand rupees, if the last ball hits a six, then one lakh rupees will be transferred to the player’s account, this work is happening in public.
A group of pitch siders were arrested by the police during a match played in Hyderabad Deccan last few days. These people were gambling by sitting in the stands to take advantage of the delay of a few seconds in the broadcast. A farmhouse in Hyderabad Deccan. But the police raided and detained 4 people, 4 million rupees were seized from their possession, 3 million rupees in the bank account were also frozen.
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Even before the start of the IPL, various bookies’ bases were raided under cyber laws, in which Rs 50 lakhs were seized and 12 people were detained, to no avail and on a large scale. Gambling continues to be played in the IPL, reports of a young man committing suicide after losing huge sums of money have also surfaced, and gambling is being fed through a few gaming apps in India.