Top 5 controversies in the history of Indian Cricket

#2 Spot fixing and betting controversy - IPL 2012 - 2013

The voice of banning IPL echoed throughout India post the spot-fixing and betting scandal

Twelve years post the infamous match-fixing controversy, Indian Cricket faced another tumultuous couple of years.This issue began in 2012 when an Indian news channel, India TV, aired a sting operation which accused five IPL players of demanding a bribe in exchange for spot-fixing. BCCI banned all the five players, with a life-ban on TP Sudhindra and a five-year ban on Shalabh Srivastava.

As the dust seemed to settle, Delhi police arrested S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila of Rajasthan Royals along with eleven other bookies for spot-fixing during IPL 2013. Rajasthan Royals terminated the contracts of all three suspended players.

The situation became ominous when the CSK Team Principal Gurunath Meiyappan, who is the son-in-law of then BCCI president N Srinivasan, got arrested for illegal betting charges. Shortly, Rajasthan Royals team owner Raj Kundra also got arrested for the same betting case.

There was a serious conflict of interest charges laid against Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings and this forced Rajiv Shulka, the Chairman of IPL and N Srinivasan to step down from their posts.

In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court of India-appointed Lodha committee suspended Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals from the IPL for a span of two years.