Top 5 Biggest Controversies in IPL 2025 – Sports Tiger

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Controversies are often part and parcel of the modern day sport and especially where it comes to the great game of cricket, then it could be said, that they are a recurring problem with the sport that was once labelled the gentlemen’s game. 
However, when a controversy actually happens in cricket, then there’s remotely anything that remains that could be compared to it being a gentleman’s game, isn’t it? What do you reckon. This year too, there were a few IPL controversies in the 2025 season that erupted all of a sudden, much like how controversies usually do, bringing at the end of the day, needless drama and along with it, unwanted attention to what is otherwise an amazing contest form.
So having said that, what were some of the biggest controversies of IPL 2025?
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Ishan Kishan, during a very weird batting outing against the Mumbai Indians, in one of SRH’s earlier games in IPL 2025, got out cheaply.
However, that wasn’t weird.
What was weird, was actually the fact that as soon as he nicked the ball, or so he thought, sending it to the keeper who caught it easily with the lleft-handed flirting needlessly with a delivery bowled wide down the legs, Ishan walked away.
Strangely, the MI bowlers, his opponents in that game, didn’t even appeal but the umpire gave him out. The replays then showed that the batter hadn’t nicked it. But then the weird dismissal was enough to point to a grey area that happened back then.
All of it was uncanny and strange.
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It was an incident that was either so utterly necessary that such a thing should never have happened in the first place, or one could say, when Harbhajan Singh does speak, then on occasions, such incidents do happen. No matter what you say, what happened was rather regrettable and has no place in modern sport.
A famed former off spinner, one of the most successful spinners to have ever played the game, one wishes that Harbhajan’s commentary borrowed some of his exceptional bowling awareness too but sadly, on this occasion, with the IPL having barely reached day number three, Harbhajan said something needless and shoddy.
Comparing a really expensive over bowled by Jofra Archer during one of his then recent IPL spells, the Indian cricketer compared Archer’s spell to being as expensive as London’s black taxis.
Now, Archer is a cricketer of West Indian descent, hailing originally from Barbados, and then, Bhajji’s remark on ‘Black taxis’. Was that even needed?
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There was a distant feeling that CSK’s fast bowler, someone who’s bowled ably for India in white-ball contests as well, was involved in the incident of ball-tampering. Although, this one was a standlone incident involving allegations of ball tampering and the perpetrator, allegedly, was Khaleel Ahmed. This happened during CSK’s contest against familiar foes, Mumbai Indians. The contest at Chepauk, CSK’s home turf, would however, lead to a weird online video leak that ‘apparently’ pointed to Khaleel engaged in ball tampering.
This led to calls of the home team persisting with clear unfair advantage.
Here’s the truth in all its entirety, not in any fraction, whatsoever. It is the fans that make the sport, the sport we so love. And they add a layer of unparalleled love and affection to cricket as only they can. Therefore, where there arrive moments, totally out of the blue, that lead to what one might call ‘fan wars’, it all seems a bit bizarre and overly done. Right?
But then this is something that exactly happened in the contest featuring the Rajasthan Royals and the Kolkata Knight Riders early on in the 2025 edition of the IPL. While the contest was epic and full of excitement, what took place beyond the boundary ropes at the ground, was totally uncalled for.
Now while we know that the sporting fans do often collide with each other or at least have some brawls, particularly in football, to have the same thing in cricket, is not always too common.
However, irrespective of what that is, during the RR and KKR contest, there was a violent altercation that happened between both the franchise’ fans. During the course of the contest, the spectators that supported their respective teams actually were involved in a physical tussle and eventually, things had to be calmed down. The uncalled for incident took place where Windies batter for RR, Hetmyer was at the crease along with Dhruv Jurel.

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