JUSTICE-MUDGAL-IPL-PROBE-COMMITTEE-REPORT-final-feb-8

JUSTICE MUDGAL IPL PROBE COMMITTEE 201428that IPL team, Chennai Super Kings, had been consistentlycoming up with huge scores and there was no explanationas to why IPL team, Chennai Super Kings came up with abelow par score in the match.A dispassionate analysis of the match in question wouldreveal that at the start of the 12 th over, IPL team, ChennaiSuper Kings, was at a healthy score of around 85 for theloss of 1 wicket at a run rate of around 7.7 runs per over.It has been the consistent view of the interactingindependent players including Mr. Rahul Dravid and Mr.Anil Kumble that it is the rule of the thumb that the scoreat the end of 12 th over gets doubled at the end of 20 th over.It can be safely assumed therefore that the score at the endof 11 th over would have been doubled in normal course ofevents. However, both Mr. Suresh Raina and Mr. M.S.Dhoni fell within a span of one over in the 12 th over. Thisresulted in a slowing down in the scoring of runs and ithas been explained to the committee by the expert playersthat this is quite possible. Immediately at the start of the17 th over, Mr. Murali Vijay was out and during the periodfrom 13 th to 17 th over, the rate of scores slumped to about7 runs per over. From the 17 th to the 20 th over, the run rateper over continued at 7 runs per over.It is evident that the sudden fall of wickets of Mr. M.S.Dhoni and Mr. Suresh Raina were the prime reasons forslowing down of the run rate. It was therefore feltnecessary to examine the dismissals of Mr. M.S. Dhoni andMr. Suresh Raina and the matter was specifically