Eleven persons were killed and over fifty injured in a stampede outside Bengaluru’s famous M. Chinnaswamy Stadium during the festivities that were meant to commemorate Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s historic first IPL triumph. Mo Bobat, the director of cricket for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, has urged the team to pay tribute to the victims and make sure their legacies are a lasting part of the team’s history months after the occurrence.
During the incident on June 4, thousands of supporters gathered outside Chinnaswamy Stadium to celebrate Royal Challengers Bengaluru first IPL title victory. Due to the stadium’s capacity being greatly surpassed, fences collapsed and there was insufficient crowd control, causing a stampede that left scores injured and 11 innocent people dead. In addition to launching the “Royal Challengers Bengaluru Cares” fund to offer financial and medical care to the injured, Royal Challengers Bengaluru promptly announced that each victim’s family will get INR 10 lakh in compensation.
Passion and fun are key components of cricket and the IPL, and our supporters are one of our main sources of inspiration. We expressed our desire to win for our supporters during the competition. They have been the ones with patience. A few of us are brand-new.
We wanted to do it for these fans because they have waited for eighteen years, and it is very terrible that some of them have died. We hope to be able to identify those individuals and their families. Their tales are now a part of our past. Every sports team has a heritage and a history. We must honour them because what they have gone through is a part of our history and legacy,” he told Cricbuzz.
KSCA, event partners, and Royal Challengers Bengaluru are held accountable for the stampede.
A government investigation headed by Justice John Michael D’Cunha was also prompted by the rush. The Chinnaswamy Stadium was declared by the commission to be essentially dangerous for holding major events. Serious safety issues were identified in its design, inadequate entry and departure locations, inadequate emergency alertness, and inadequate public access systems.
In addition to calling for disciplinary action against a number of officials, the study blamed the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA), RCB, and its event partners for poor administration.
As a direct result, the stadium was not selected to host the 2025 ICC Women’s ODI World Cup. The DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai will now host matches, including a semi-final and possibly the championship game.
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