Aakash Chopra: The second season of the Indian Premier League i.e. IPL 2009 was not at all good for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). The franchise was embroiled in a lot of controversies due to incidents that happened on and off the field. They had to face defeat in 10 out of 14 matches of the tournament, while they could win only 3. Apart from this, there was no result of one match.

Not only this, the team's head coach John Buchanan made a strange announcement before the start of the season and said that 4-5 players will together captain the team. But apart from all this, 'Fake IPL Player' also became a big controversy for KKCAR that season.

Who was the 'fake IPL player'?

In fact, during IPL 2009, a blog named “Fake IPL Player” had made a lot of headlines. It was claimed that a player of Kolkata Knight Riders was behind this blog page. In his articles, the blogger brought out such stories of the franchise and the players, which tarnished the image of the franchise. This was confirmed when KKR sent two of its players Aakash Chopra and Sanjay Bangar back to India during the ongoing tournament in South Africa. The franchise suspected that one of these two was behind the blog.

Suspicion was cast on Aakash Chopra

The blogger would write in the beginning of his article that “All the characters seen are imaginary. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and unintentional.” So that any legal action can be avoided. Apart from this, he also used to give funny nicknames to the players. But, when a prediction written in the article came true, the link of the blog was shared by a big cricket website, which created a stir in the cricket space.

Aakash Chopra published his first book 'Beyond the Blues: A First-Class Season Like No Other' just a few months before the start of IPL 2009, due to which he was accused of being a 'fake IPL player'. Accused.

Shahrukh Khan also responded

After this incident, Kolkata Knight Riders sent batsman Aakash Chopra and all-rounder Sanjay Bangar back to India. Not only this, the use of laptops was banned for other players of the team. Team co-owner Shahrukh Khan had responded to the issue by saying, “Whoever is behind this is clearly of a very sick and disgusting mindset and has very little knowledge to even pretend to be a part of our team. “

Later it was revealed that Aakash Chopra or Sanjay Bangar had no involvement in this matter, because Anupam Mukherjee revealed the identity of his 'fake IPL player' by sharing a video on YouTube.