The 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is going better ten expected by most of the people as all the teams on in all glory, and all the teams are giving their best to get over the line. However, a recent deleted Tweet from Mumbai Indians (MI) has sparked a controversy on social media. A lot of cricket fans on Twitter are alleging the defending champions for ‘fixing’ things, whereas it was just a mistake from MI’s social media team. In the 27th match of the cash-rich league, MI took on Delhi Capitals in Abu Dhabi.
Winning the toss, Delhi decided to bat first and went on to post a huge total of 162/4 on the board. Ajinkya Rahane walked the field in place of Rishabh Pant, and Alex Carey was seen in place of Shimron Hetmyer. The star batsman Shikhar Dhawan went on to score his first fifty of the season and helped his team to reach a respectable total. Skipper Shreyas Iyer also played a great knock to lend his support to the team.
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Chasing the target, Mumbai Indians turned successful as Quinton de Kock and Suryakumar Yadav came out all guns blazing. They scored 53 runs each from their bat to set the tone for defending champions, and they won the game by five wickets. However, in the latest turn of events, MI faced the backlash on Twitter for tweeting DC’s score in the first over of their innings itself.
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However, mistakenly, MI’s Twitter handles copy-pasted Rajasthan Royals’ score from the previous game, which read – 163/5 after 19.5 overs). Correcting the mistake, the tweet was deleted soon but it was enough for the twitterati to spark a controversy related to match-fixing.
Here’s the tweet:
However, DC finished pretty close with the tally of 162/4, and looking at such on-point similarities, fans went gaga over the same. While some of them are enjoying the blunder made by MI’s social media handle, few are accusing the three-time champions of fixing the game.
Here are some of the tweets:
https://twitter.com/VickyVjMsd/status/1315316455290798080?s=20
