Well, amidst the hype and hoopla of Indian Premier League (IPL), the game was marred with many controversies, apart from the spat and cricket rumours between Sreesanth and Harbhajan Singh; it was Pakistan’s Mohammad Asif tested positive.

The DLF Indian Premier League or IPL Twenty20 Cricket took both the cricketing world and cricket news by storm as it featured numerous national and international stars in cricket team along with cricket rumours. Some of the well known faced of IPL were Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Some of the international players were Shane Warne, Shaun Pollock, Ricky Ponting, Mahela Jayawardane, Sanat Jayasurya, Ashley Noffke, Makhaya Nitini, Jacob Oram, Stephen Fleming, Andrew Symonds, Younis Khan, Umar Gul, Mohammad Asif, Brett Lee and many famous starts in IPL twenty20 cricket team. The popularity of IPL was bigger than World Cup and World Cup Cricket. Many cricket portals featured the cricket live score of the event to cater the online fans of Twenty20 IPL Cricket Series.

As a brainchild of BCCI, IPL saw a huge popularity amidst the cricket rumours in the twenty20 format game that garnered huge sponsorship and patronage from industrialists as well as film stars with 8-cricket team like Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Chennai Super Kings, Hyderabad Deccan Chargers, Kings XI Punjab, Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Nightriders and the victorious Rajasthan Royals. The event was full of adrenaline thumping cricket and it was garnered huge support from the audience, much more than the World Cup and World Cup Cricket. The short format of IPL game was covered on Cricket 360 and featured its cricket score on regular basis.

BCCI compared the results according to the standards of World Anti Doping Agency (WADA). However, Asif did not accept the speculations regarding his testing positive for doping case and said that it is a malicious controversy. Cricket 360 covered the famous controversies that came along IPL.

According to ICC, the onus of responsibility lies with BCCI and whatever appropriate action against the guilty cricket sports player. Meanwhile, amidst controversy, PCB said that it would take stern action against Mohammad Asif in case he is found guilty. According to Shafqat Naghmi, the COO of PCB made a formal statement just a day after ICC and IPL officials confirmed the report of a failed drug test on Mohammad Asif. Cricket 360 will be featuring the latest update on the doping controversy as well as the reaction from the cricketing community along with IPL, ICC and PCB.

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