Various BPL franchises
10 November 2017
Multiple fixing scandals hit the Bangladesh Premier League, with several players including former Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful banned for involvement in match fixing.
ICC vs Defensive Bowling Tactics
2015-01-01
The ICC's progressive tightening of leg-side wide rules in T20 and ODI cricket — calling deliveries to the leg side that any batsman could not play as wides — transformed bowling strategies in limited-overs cricket and created one of the sport's most debated umpiring grey areas.
Multiple IPL Franchises
18 April 2008
The Indian Premier League, launched in 2008 by Lalit Modi, revolutionized cricket's commercial model with city-based franchise T20 cricket, creating enormous wealth but also concerns about corruption, player prioritization, and the future of international cricket.
ICC vs Limited-Overs Cricket
2007-01-01
The free hit rule — awarding the batting side a ball from which the batsman cannot be dismissed (except run-out) following a foot-fault no-ball — was introduced to penalise bowlers more heavily for overstepping and has been widely adopted in limited-overs cricket, though controversial proposals to extend it to Tests were rejected.
New Zealand vs Australia
13 February 2005
The first-ever T20 International featured debates about the width of the wide line in the shorter format, setting the stage for years of inconsistency in T20 umpiring.
India vs various
2005-10-19
MS Dhoni's helicopter shot — a full swing of the bat through a full or yorker-length delivery, generating enormous loft and power to leg — became one of cricket's most copied innovations, a shot that cricket coaches had no name for until Dhoni invented it.