Royal Challengers Bangalore

The Karnataka High Court on Friday ordered that no precipitative action will be taken against officials of Karnataka State Cricket Association over the RCB’s IPL victory celebration stampede in Bengaluru.

As reported earlier, the Bengaluru Police have filed a case against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), Karnataka State Cricket Association, and DNA Entertainment over the stampede on Wednesday, June 4, that killed 11 and left 56 injured.

A day after 11 people lost their lives in stampede at celebrations of IPL victory by RCB in Bengaluru, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah announced that several top officials including Bengaluru Commissioner of Police has been suspended

Despite knowing the popularity of RCB in Bengaluru and the significance of the franchise’s first IPL title, the state government grossly underestimated the turnout or perhaps they were not much concerned about the possibility of a stampede-like situation as they were engrossed in encashing the triumphant moment.

Throughout this season of IPL, RCB fans have become infamous for their terrible behaviour. Whether it was shouting "Vadapav" at Indian captain Rohit Sharma or trolling and abusing Indian legend Gautam Gambhir, or even trolling the youngster from Afghanistan Naveen-ul-Haq

Bowling coach Bond addressed the media on behalf of the team, beginning with his honest assessment of the score that the M Chinnaswamy Stadium offers and "how we could have maximized our chances."

Miller and Tewatia delivered the goods once again in IPL for the team as their 79 runs partnership off just 40 balls delivered another win for Gujarat against RCB.

SRH's latest triumph in IPL was an absolute annihilation of RCB as they swatted them away winning with 9 wickets with 12 overs to spare.

RCB defeated Mumbai with 7 wickets in hand and 9 balls to spare but the result was never in doubt since the time Mumbai lost their opening wicket.

An Odean Smith cameo at the end turned out to be the difference as Punjab Kings chased down a mammoth target of 206 against RCB to start their IPL campaign with a win. Smith ended up with 25 off 8 balls as Punjab got home with an over to spare in the end.