Top 5 controversies in the history of Indian Cricket

#1 Match-fixing scandal - 1999 - 2000

Prabhakar participated in Tehelka's expose of match-fixing but was himself charged with involvement and got banned by BCCI from playing Cricket

The controversy which rocked the cricketing world started just after South Africa toured India in 1999-2000. It all started with the match-fixing scandal around the South African players Cronje, Gibbs, Boje, and Strydom.

The investigation resulted in a chain of events leading to the Indian Cricket camp. The Indian government ordered the CBI to probe the match-fixing accusations and to find out the involvement of Indian cricketers in the scandal. The most ruinous statement in the CBI report is of former Indian captain Azharuddin, who, the report states, admitted to fixing Indian matches with the aid of Ajay Jadeja.

On November 27, 2000, Azharuddin was found guilty of match-fixing, while Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Ajay Sharma were found guilty of having connections with bookies.Though the courts lifted the ban on Azharuddin and Jadeja after a few years, Indian cricket was never the same post this incident.