Gujarat: Villagers organise fake IPL to dupe Russian betters
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Gujarat: Villagers organise fake IPL to dupe Russian betters

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A village in the Mehsana district of Gujarat pulled off a sham IPL, three weeks after the official version of the tournament ended earlier this year, almost conning Russian gamblers into betting on the thrills of the T20 cricket, a report published in Times Of India revealed. The elaborate fraud was complete with farm labourers pretending as cricketers, a farm in Molipur village used as a cricket ground, a Harsha Bhogle mimic for commentary and a Telegram channel to take the bettings from a remote audience of Russian punters. A team of 21 farm labourers and unemployed youth of the village took turns wearing jerseys of Gujarat Titans, Chennai Super Kings, and Mumbai Indians to give an impression to their Russian audiences that the original IPL was underway. Services of a Meerut-based Harsha Bhogle ‘mimic’ were also used to add to the authenticity of the tournament and induce punters into betting their roubles on the Telegram channel.

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