IPL franchise match
8 April 2026
David Miller inexplicably refused an obvious single on the penultimate ball, then failed to score on the last ball, costing his team a match they lost by 1 run.
Australia vs India
6 January 2025
Rishabh Pant and Pat Cummins engaged in a sustained verbal war throughout the Sydney Test as India, led by stand-in captain Pant, and Australia fought for the series in the final match.
Rajasthan Royals vs Gujarat Titans
22 April 2025
On 22 April 2025, fourteen-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi walked out to bat in the IPL and proceeded to massacre an international bowling attack for 101* off 38 balls. The maths were absurd — the bowlers he faced had played more Test matches than he had lived years.
Chennai Super Kings
May 2025
MS Dhoni's continued IPL appearances in 2025, despite being in his mid-40s, reduced to hitting sixes and taking wickets in the final overs, turned every CSK match into a collective national emotional rollercoaster — the entire country both desperate for him to retire gracefully and furious at the thought of it.
Pakistan vs India / ICC
February 2025
India's refusal to travel to Pakistan for the 2025 Champions Trophy forced the ICC to implement an unprecedented 'hybrid model' — with India's matches relocated to Dubai — generating fierce debate about the politicisation of cricket and the ICC's impartiality as a governing body.
India vs South Africa
June 2025
India's third consecutive defeat in a World Test Championship Final — this time to South Africa at Lord's in 2025 — sparked the most intense cricket debate in years about whether India's Test team was structurally incapable of winning ICC titles.
India
May 2025
Within weeks of each other in 2025, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli — India's two greatest contemporary Test batsmen — announced their retirements from Test cricket, bringing a definitive close to one of international cricket's most celebrated batting partnerships.
Australia vs India
22-26 November 2024
The opening Test of the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Perth produced multiple contentious DRS decisions — with ball-tracking showing multiple 'umpire's call' moments that divided players and commentators about the technology's fitness for purpose.
Multiple Nations
June 2024
The T20 World Cup 2024 — hosted across the USA and Caribbean — was marked by umpiring controversies involving wide calls and no-ball decisions that drew criticism from multiple teams, amplified by the tournament's use of new venues in the United States where umpiring quality was questioned.
Australia vs Pakistan
11 June 2024
Mohammad Rizwan and Australian captain Mitchell Marsh exchanged heated words during the T20 World Cup 2024, adding spice to the Australia-Pakistan rivalry.
Australia vs India
26 December 2024
Teenage debutant Sam Konstas deliberately shoulder-bumped Virat Kohli mid-pitch during his debut innings at the MCG, sparking one of the most talked-about confrontations of modern cricket.
Australia vs India
22 November 2024
Jasprit Bumrah's astonishing 6-wicket haul at the Optus Stadium rendered Steve Smith and Australia's batting helpless, setting up one of the most emphatic Indian Test victories in Australia.
Australia vs India
29 November 2024
Mitchell Starc relentlessly targeted Shreyas Iyer with short-pitched deliveries throughout the Adelaide day-night Test, exposing a known technical weakness and forcing a cat-and-mouse battle that defined the first session of India's batting.
Various PSL Franchises
2024
Pakistan's cricket integrity faced fresh scrutiny in 2024 when spot-fixing allegations surfaced around Pakistan Super League matches, prompting investigations by the PCB and ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit into several players and support staff.
Mumbai Indians
April 2024
Hardik Pandya was relentlessly booed by his own Mumbai Indians home crowd throughout IPL 2024, one of the most extraordinary cases of a captain being rejected by his own fans — stemming from his replacement of the beloved Rohit Sharma as captain.
India vs South Africa
29 June 2024
After India won the T20 World Cup 2024 in Barbados, Rohit Sharma announced his T20I retirement during the on-field celebrations — only for Virat Kohli to simultaneously announce his own retirement — creating a bittersweet, overlapping comedy of farewells that left fans unsure which retirement to cry about first.
India vs Bangladesh
6 October 2024
When the BCCI named Vaibhav Suryavanshi — aged 13 — in India's T20I squad against Bangladesh in October 2024, it triggered one of cricket's most heated modern debates: should a child be playing professional international cricket? The debate intensified further when Rajasthan Royals bought him for the 2025 IPL season.
BCCI / ICC / England Cricket / Cricket Australia
2024
The 2024 cricket calendar brought the IPL-versus-Test-cricket scheduling conflict to its most acute point yet, with multiple Test series rescheduled, players choosing IPL contracts over international availability, and administrators openly questioning whether Test cricket could survive as a commercially viable format.
Mumbai Indians
January 2024
Mumbai Indians' decision to replace Rohit Sharma — their five-title-winning captain — with Hardik Pandya triggered one of the most sustained fan backlashes in IPL history, as Pandya was booed relentlessly throughout IPL 2024 while Rohit batted for the same team.
Afghanistan U19 / ICC
January–February 2024
Afghanistan's Under-19 team's participation in the 2024 U19 World Cup in South Africa generated controversy given the Taliban government's domestic restrictions on youth sport — raising the same governance questions at youth level that the senior men's team's continued ICC participation had already raised.
India vs South Africa
2024-06-29
India beat South Africa by 7 runs in a dramatic final in Barbados to win the 2024 T20 World Cup — Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli both announcing retirement from T20 internationals after the victory, ending an era in Indian T20 cricket.
India vs South Africa
29 June 2024
India ended an 11-year ICC trophy drought by defeating South Africa in a breathtaking T20 World Cup Final in Barbados — a victory that sparked celebrations across the subcontinent and prompted the retirement of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Ravindra Jadeja from T20 international cricket.
India vs Australia
22-23 November 2024
Acting captain Jasprit Bumrah's 8-wicket match haul at the Optus Stadium in Perth — combined with his aggressive, astute captaincy — produced one of India's most dominant Test victories on Australian soil, widely hailed as among the finest individual fast bowling performances in Test history.
England vs Australia
28 June - 2 July 2023
Alex Carey stumped Jonny Bairstow after he wandered out of his crease assuming the ball was dead. The dismissal at Lord's caused a furious reaction from the MCC members.
Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
6 November 2023
Angelo Mathews became the first batsman in international cricket history to be timed out after his helmet strap broke while walking to the crease.
Various IPL Teams
April 2023
Multiple teams were penalized five runs for fake fielding during IPL 2023, with inconsistent enforcement sparking confusion and debate.
India vs Australia
19 November 2023
Several contentious DRS decisions during the 2023 World Cup Final added to India's frustration as they lost to Australia despite being unbeaten throughout the tournament.
India vs Australia
7-11 June 2023
India were penalized for a slow over rate during the WTC Final, continuing a pattern of teams being docked championship points for failing to meet the required overs per day.
Afghanistan vs Pakistan
23 October 2023
A controversial short run call during the 2023 World Cup match between Afghanistan and Pakistan led to Afghan fans accusing the umpires of costing their team the match.
Various IPL Teams
March-May 2023
The introduction of the Impact Player rule in IPL 2023 created confusion about substitution timings and match referee oversight.
India vs Australia
19 November 2023
India captain Rohit Sharma was given out caught behind for 47 off Pat Cummins in the 2023 WC Final. His DRS review was turned down after UltraEdge showed a disputed spike. Some analysts argued contact was not made. India were bowled out for 240 and Australia won by 6 wickets.
India vs Australia
19 November 2023
A detailed analysis of the most controversial moment in the 2023 World Cup Final — Rohit Sharma's dismissal for 47 off Pat Cummins via caught behind. UltraEdge showed a spike, but some post-match analysts argued it indicated surface vibration rather than bat-ball contact. The third umpire upheld the dismissal. India collapsed to 240; Australia chased it easily, winning the World Cup in front of 1.4 billion watching Indians.
England vs Australia
June–July 2023
The 2023 Ashes produced a succession of DRS controversies around edge detection — Hotspot and Snicko contradicting each other in critical moments — exposing the continued limitations of ball-tracking and edge-detection technology in high-stakes Test cricket.
India vs Australia
19 November 2023
Rohit Sharma's dismissal for 47 in the 2023 World Cup Final — caught behind off Pat Cummins in a decision that survived a DRS review — proved to be a turning point that removed India's most dangerous opener and opened the match to Australia's pace attack.
England vs Australia
31 July 2023
Stuart Broad, in his final Test, cheekily counted down to Steve Smith's supposedly final Test innings, winding up the Australian.
England vs Australia
2 July 2023
Alex Carey stumped Jonny Bairstow as he wandered out of his crease assuming the ball was dead, sparking a massive 'Spirit of Cricket' controversy.
Australia vs India
9 June 2023
Travis Head and Mohammed Siraj had a heated exchange during the WTC Final at The Oval, with aggressive celebrations and verbal jousting.
India vs Australia
2023-10-08
Jasprit Bumrah's specific plan to disrupt Steve Smith with back-of-a-length deliveries outside off stump and targeted yorkers throughout the 2023 World Cup — including the final at Ahmedabad — produced one of the tournament's defining individual bowling-batting contests.
India vs Australia
15 November 2023
Mohammed Siraj's aggressive bowling and heated verbal exchanges with Travis Head defined the tense WC 2023 semi-final atmosphere as India and Australia clashed at Wankhede Stadium.
Australia vs Pakistan / ICC
26 December 2023
Usman Khawaja defied ICC regulations and faced the threat of match sanctions after repeatedly attempting to wear a black armband and pro-Palestine dove symbol on his shoe in protest, sparking a global debate about players' rights to express political views in cricket.
England vs Australia
16 June 2023
Ben Duckett's startlingly aggressive batting against Australia's pace attack at Edgbaston set the tone for England's Bazball-era Ashes campaign, repeatedly taking on Cummins and Starc with reverse sweeps and premeditated strokes that disoriented Australia's plans.
India vs Australia
7 June 2023
Mitchell Starc's sustained targeting of Virat Kohli's off-stump corridor throughout the WTC Final 2023 at The Oval, exploiting English conditions to dismiss India's talisman and help Australia secure the World Test Championship.
International
2023
The ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit announced a major coordinated operation in 2023 targeting organised corruption networks operating across multiple franchise T20 leagues simultaneously — identifying intermediaries who had penetrated multiple competitions.
Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh
6 November 2023
Angelo Mathews became the first batsman ever dismissed 'timed out' in international cricket history when his helmet strap broke as he walked to the crease, and Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan chose to invoke the law — creating one of cricket's most absurd and uniquely memorable dismissals.
Australia vs India
19 November 2023
Travis Head scored a match-winning 137 against India in front of 134,000 hostile fans at Narendra Modi Stadium, keeping his composure with a cheerfully impassive expression while an entire nation audibly suffered around him.
IPL Franchises
31 March 2023
The IPL's Impact Player rule, allowing teams to substitute a player mid-match, was criticized for devaluing all-rounders and turning matches into batting slugfests with 200+ scores becoming routine.
Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh
6 November 2023
Angelo Mathews became the first player in international cricket history to be given 'Timed Out' after his helmet strap broke and he couldn't face a delivery within the stipulated time, with Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan refusing to withdraw the appeal.
Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
2023-11-06
Angelo Mathews became the first player in international cricket history to be dismissed 'Timed Out' at the 2023 World Cup — triggering a global debate about whether a law intended for persistent time-wasting should be used against a broken helmet strap.
Australia / ICC
December 2023
The ICC's order to Usman Khawaja to remove his pro-Palestine symbols during the Boxing Day Test 2023 forced cricket to confront a question it had never publicly answered: should cricketers be permitted to make humanitarian statements, and who decides what is 'political'?
India Women vs Bangladesh Women
25 July 2023
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur kicked the stumps after being given out LBW, earning a match ban and widespread criticism for her on-field behaviour.
Various WPL Teams
13 February 2023
Several high-profile international women's cricketers went unsold in the inaugural WPL auction, raising questions about the valuation of experience versus youth in women's T20 leagues.
Australia Women
1 February 2023
Australian captain Meg Lanning took an indefinite break from cricket for undisclosed personal reasons, fuelling widespread speculation and raising questions about privacy in women's sport.
India Women
5 June 2023
Reports of multiple India women's cricketers failing mandatory fitness tests sparked debate about whether the standards were appropriate and whether adequate training resources were provided.
BCCI / Women's Premier League
February 2023
The inaugural Women's Premier League auction in 2023 produced eye-catching contracts for some players but raised sharp questions about the pay gap between the highest-paid WPL stars and the majority of players, and about whether the league genuinely elevated the financial standing of women's cricket globally.
Afghanistan / ICC
Ongoing 2021–2024
Afghanistan's Taliban government banned women from playing cricket — in direct violation of ICC membership requirements — yet Afghanistan's men's team continued playing in ICC tournaments, forcing cricket's governing body to confront its most challenging governance dilemma.
Multiple Nations
2023
Multiple cases of Under-19 cricketers reporting burnout, mental health challenges, and premature dropout across several nations in 2022-23 prompted the ICC and multiple cricket boards to review the increasing demands placed on teenage cricketers in the franchise cricket era.
India vs various
2023-11-19
Virat Kohli scored 765 runs in the 2023 World Cup — the highest aggregate in a single World Cup — including 3 centuries (tying the record for most in a single tournament), as India went unbeaten in 10 matches before falling to Australia in the final.
Australia vs India
19 November 2023
Travis Head's stunning 137 off 120 balls transformed a desperate Australian chase in front of 134,000 partisan Indian supporters into one of cricket's most astonishing individual performances, handing Australia a sixth ODI World Cup title.
Australia vs Afghanistan
24 October 2023
Australia's captain Pat Cummins delivered one of the most memorable hat-tricks in World Cup history — cleaning up three Afghan batsmen in consecutive balls at Wankhede Stadium, including two with unplayable toe-crushing yorkers.
India Women vs England Women
24 September 2022
Deepti Sharma ran out Charlie Dean at the non-striker's end to seal an ODI series sweep. The dismissal reignited the Mankad debate globally.
Multiple Nations
2022-2023
Between 2022 and 2023, the ICC Anti-Corruption Unit handed out bans to players from multiple associate and emerging cricket nations — underscoring that corruption in franchise cricket leagues targeting smaller-nation players remained cricket's most persistent integrity challenge.
ICC vs Cricket Tradition
2022-10-01
The MCC's 2022 decision to move the Mankad dismissal from 'unfair play' to 'run-out' — legitimising it as a normal dismissal — ended 75 years of treating the mode of dismissal as a violation of cricket's spirit, provoking fierce debate about tradition versus tactical legitimacy.
England Women vs India Women
24 September 2022
Deepti Sharma ran out Charlotte Dean at the non-striker's end for backing up too far, sparking a fierce global debate about the spirit of cricket versus the laws of the game.
India Women
27 October 2022
The BCCI announced equal match fees for men and women cricketers in 2022, but the disparity in central contracts and overall compensation remained massive, sparking debate.
Pakistan Women
1 March 2022
Pakistan women's cricketers have faced systemic barriers including inadequate facilities, cultural restrictions, and poor support structures, with incidents highlighting the challenges periodically making headlines.
Australia Women vs England Women
20 January 2022
The multi-format Women's Ashes points system was criticised for effectively allowing Australia to retain the Ashes before the Test match, making the flagship Test feel meaningless.
India Women vs England Women
24 September 2022
Jhulan Goswami's farewell match at Lord's was overshadowed by the Mankad controversy, and many felt India's greatest fast bowler deserved a more befitting send-off.
England Women
May–August 2022
England Women's star Nat Sciver-Brunt took an extended break from cricket in 2022 to prioritise her mental health — a decision that sparked the most substantive conversation about player welfare and mental health in women's cricket, and prompted Cricket England to review its player support frameworks.
England U19
10 June 2022
Allegations of racism within the England youth cricket system emerged as part of the broader investigation into discrimination in English cricket triggered by Azeem Rafiq's testimony.
India U19 vs England U19
5 February 2022
India U19's exuberant celebrations after winning the 2022 U19 World Cup went viral, with some senior commentators criticising the youngsters for being 'over the top' while fans found it endearing.
India U19 vs England U19
5 February 2022
India's Under-19 team defeated England in the 2022 U19 World Cup Final in Antigua, but their on-field celebrations — including aggressive gesturing directed at England players — prompted a brief controversy about sportsmanship at youth level that played out on social media for days.
New Zealand vs Bangladesh
2022-01-08
Ross Taylor played his 100th Test for New Zealand in January 2022 — becoming the first New Zealander to achieve the milestone — before retiring as his country's highest run-scorer with 7,683 Test runs, ending a 16-year career that changed New Zealand batting.
India vs England
24-25 February 2021
Multiple controversial LBW decisions in the pink-ball Ahmedabad Test that finished inside two days, with questions about ball tracking accuracy on a turning pitch.
India vs England
5-9 March 2021
The on-field umpire's 'soft signal' of out for a Ben Stokes catch that appeared to have been grassed was upheld by the third umpire, sparking fury over the soft signal rule.
South Africa vs West Indies
28 October 2021
Quinton de Kock withdrew from South Africa's T20 World Cup match against the West Indies after Cricket South Africa mandated players take a knee before matches.
India vs Various
5 February 2021
Virat Kohli was regularly caught on stump microphones delivering animated verbal volleys to opponents, becoming both celebrated and criticised for his intensity.
England vs South Africa
2021-10-26
Kagiso Rabada's targeted assault on Ben Stokes — one of cricket's most powerful all-rounders — across T20 and Test cricket produced one of modern cricket's great personal rivalries, with Rabada's pace and Stokes's counter-attacking instincts creating compelling confrontations.
Australia vs England
2021-12-08
Mitchell Starc's inswinging yorker to Joe Root in the 2021-22 Ashes — repeatedly bowling through the gate between bat and pad — became the symbol of England's batting vulnerability to left-arm inswing and contributed to Australia's 4-0 series win.
Zimbabwe / Various T20 leagues
22 April 2021
Former Zimbabwe captain and coach Heath Streak was banned for eight years by the ICC for breaching multiple anti-corruption rules during his time as a coach and player in various T20 leagues.
Sri Lanka
2 April 2021
Former Sri Lankan fast bowler Nuwan Zoysa was banned for six years by the ICC for match fixing and corruption offenses committed while working as a coach.
Mohammedan SC vs Abahani Limited
2021-10-29
Shakib Al Hasan completely lost his composure during a domestic match, kicking the stumps out of the ground and later uprooting them after disagreeing with an umpire's decision.
Afghanistan (women's cricket)
8 September 2021
After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, women were banned from playing cricket and all sports, raising questions about Afghanistan's ICC membership and the governing body's commitment to gender equality.
India (internal)
8 December 2021
Virat Kohli was stripped of the ODI captaincy and replaced by Rohit Sharma in a move he claimed was made without prior consultation, exposing rifts within the BCCI and Indian cricket's power structure.
India vs England
24 February 2021
The third Test between India and England at the newly rebuilt Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad ended inside two days, with 30 wickets falling on a pitch that turned sharply from the first session.
ECB / English Cricket
21 July 2021
The ECB's creation of 'The Hundred,' a 100-ball competition with new rules and city-based franchises, divided English cricket, with critics arguing it undermined the county system and was a solution to a problem that didn't exist.
Various / ICC
18 June 2021
The ICC's World Test Championship has been plagued by controversies over its points system, fixture inequity, and whether the format genuinely crowns the best Test team in the world.
South Africa Women
15 August 2021
South Africa women's cricketers raised allegations of racial discrimination in team selection and treatment, echoing similar issues in the men's setup.
India vs Australia
2021-01-19
India, decimated by injuries and playing largely reserve players, chased 328 to win at the Gabba — a ground where Australia had not lost in 32 years. Rishabh Pant hit the winning boundary off the last-but-one over, winning the series 2-1.
New Zealand vs India
2021-06-23
New Zealand beat India by 8 wickets to win the inaugural ICC World Test Championship Final — Kane Williamson's 49 and Kyle Jamieson's 5/31 defeating the highest-ranked Test team in the world, giving cricket's longest format its first global champion.
England vs Pakistan
5-9 August 2020
Play was stopped for bad light despite the availability of floodlights, frustrating fans and players as Pakistan pushed for a result.
South Africa vs England
January 2020
Confusion arose about whether a ball was dead after a no-ball was bowled and the batsman was hit, leading to debate about free hit procedures.
Delhi Capitals vs Kings XI Punjab
20 September 2020
The on-field umpire incorrectly called a short run against Kings XI Punjab that replays showed was completed, potentially costing Punjab the match in the Super Over.
Australia vs India
2020-12-17
Pat Cummins's systematic off-stump line targeting Virat Kohli's drive during the 2020-21 series — dismissing Kohli four times in one series while he averaged just 9.5 — produced the sharpest statistical evidence of one bowler finding and exploiting the world's best batsman.
Pakistan
27 April 2020
Pakistani batsman Umar Akmal was banned for three years (later reduced to 18 months) by the PCB for failing to report match-fixing approaches on multiple occasions.
Various
13 July 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic forced cricket into bio-secure bubbles, leading to cancelled tours, mental health crises, and the controversial cancellation of England's tour of India's final Test at Old Trafford.
ICC / Various Nations
1 January 2020
The ICC's proposal to reduce Test matches from five days to four sparked fierce opposition from players and purists who argued it would fundamentally alter cricket's oldest format.
Various / ICC
1 December 2020
The ICC's decision to allow home umpires instead of neutral umpires during COVID-19, initially as a temporary measure, reignited debates about umpiring bias in international cricket.
ICC vs Bowlers Worldwide
2020-07-08
The ICC's temporary COVID-era ban on using saliva to shine the cricket ball became permanent in 2022, eliminating a century-old ball-maintenance practice and permanently disadvantaging bowlers — a decision that continues to divide the sport.
Australia Women vs India Women
8 March 2020
Shafali Verma's stumping off Alyssa Healy's gloves in the T20 World Cup Final was controversial, with questions about whether the ball had been gathered cleanly before the bails were removed.
India U19 vs Bangladesh U19
9 February 2020
The 2020 U19 World Cup Final between India and Bangladesh descended into ugly scenes after the match, with players from both sides involved in a physical altercation on the field.
Afghanistan U19
20 January 2020
Afghanistan U19 players reported being approached by suspected fixers during the 2020 U19 World Cup in South Africa, highlighting the vulnerability of youth cricketers to corruption.