We are reproducing an article posted on this portal in IPL 2015 when commentators and the statistician assisting the commentators on the day of the match miscounted the  number of IPL games without taking into account the number of six abandoned games.

Some of the Commentators while commenting on IPL had labeled the second game of 03rd May 2015 – between Rajasthan and Delhi at Mum-BS as 500th IPL Game. It’s a wrong computation.  They have counted the fixtures of IPL and not the actual games. There were six abandoned games which should not be taken into account as these games were abandoned without a ball being bowled. Hence the game under question was 494th game of IPL. Furnishing below the table in which I have arrived second game of 03.05.15 as 494th IPL game

No	Season	Mat	Abd	Total
1	2008	59	01	58
2	2009	59	02	57
3	2010	60	00	60
4	2011	74	01	73
5	2012	76	01	75
6	2013	76	00	76
7	2014	60	00	60
8	2015	36	01	35
	Total	500	06	494

 

ABANDONED GAMES WITHOUT A BALL BEING BOWLED
No	Team 1	Team 2	Result	Ground	Match Date
1	Delhi	Kolkata	Abandoned	Delhi	May 22, 2008
2	Mumbai	Rajasthan	Abandoned	Durban	Apr 21, 2009
3	Chennai	Kolkata	Abandoned	Cape Town	Apr 25, 2009
4	Bangalore	Rajasthan	Abandoned	Bangalore	Apr 19, 2011
5	Kolkata	Deccan	Abandoned	Kolkata	Apr 24, 2012
6	Kolkata	Rajasthan	Abandoned	Kolkata	Apr 26, 2015

The detailed Result Summary of games as of 03.05.15 read thus

Team	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	Tie+W	Tie+L	NR
Chennai Super Kings	124	75	47	0	0	1	1
Deccan Chargers	75	29	46	0	0	0	0
Delhi Daredevils	114	48	64	0	0	1	1
Kings XI Punjab	115	56	57	0	2	0	0
Kochi Tuskers Kerala	14	6	8	0	0	0	0
Kolkata Knight Riders	112	57	53	0	0	2	0
Mumbai Indians	119	67	52	0	0	0	0
Pune Warriors	46	12	33	0	0	0	1
Rajasthan Royals	114	60	50	0	2	1	1
Royal Challengers Bangalore	116	56	56	0	1	1	2
Sunrisers Hyderabad	39	19	19	0	1	0	0
Total	988	485	485	0	6	6	6

If second game of 03.05.15 was the 500th game, then the total number of matches played should have been 1000 {500 x 2}.

Six abandoned games are not taken into account in the captioned table. These six games would be 12 games in the table as they get distributed to two teams and hence 1000 – 12 = 988.  Half of 988 is 494 which is the actual number of matches played in IPL as of 03.05.15