Supreme Court inquiry report says Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals match in IPL 2013 may have been fixed

Chennai played Rajasthan on 5th May, a game that was “supposedly” rigged

Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royal have been further embroiled in a case of match fixing as suggested by the Supreme Court-instituted committee, which investigated the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal.

Court inquiry report states that further investigation is required on the game played between between CSK and Rajasthan Royals at Jaipur on May 12, 2013: “The Committee feels that there is enough information available on record to indicate that a further investigation is required in respect of the match held at Jaipur, between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings on May 5, 2013.”

Justice Mudgal’s report continued: “A dispassionate analysis would reveal that at the start of the 12th over CSK was at a healthy score of around 85 for 1 wicket at a run rate of around 7.7 runs per over,”. “However, both Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni fell within a span of one over in the 12th. This slowed scoring. At the start of the 17th over, Murali Vijay lost his wicket and between the 13th and 17th over, the scoring rate slumped to about seven runs an over. Dhoni and Raina’s wickets ‘were the prime reasons’ for this.”

A man by the name of Utham Jain (Kitty) is said to have revealed during interrogation by the Q Branch CID of Chennai Police that a senior CSK member might have agreed to fix the match.

Kitty revealed on May 23, 2013, that “pursuant to a plan to fix the match between CSK and RR, he was informed by one Vikram Agarwal on April 27, 2013 that a deal had been ‘worked out’. He was informed the same day by Meiyappan that one senior CSK member had agreed to play as per plan and the team will score 140 runs.”

The Mudgal panel said in its report that Meiyappan had told his aide Vindu Dara Singh before the game about how his team would score between 130-140 runs batting first.