IPL 2017: Top 5 controversies through IPL history

#4 Shah Rukh Khan gets banned by the Mumbai Cricket Association

Shah Rukh Khan confronting a security officer

After the match between KKR and MI at the Wankhede Stadium on May 16, 2012, Bollywood superstar and the owner of the KKR franchise, Shah Rukh Khan, allegedly got into a scuffle with the security guards.

While the MCA said that Shah Rukh Khan was trying to walk onto the field of play after the match was over - in which his team KKR beat the MI - and was reportedly drunk and abusive. The KKR owner said that he had not been to the match and had only gone to pick up his children and their group of friends who were at the stadium after the match was over.

As per Khan, he saw the security guards manhandling the kids and when he intervened, a group of officials came over and used abusive language, leading to the altercation.

Shah Rukh was banned for 5 years from attending any match at the Wankhede Stadium, be it domestic or international. Although the IPL chairman, Rajiv Shukla, said that the ban wasn’t final until the BCCI had its say on it, the ban did actually remain and fans didn’t see the star actor attending matches at the stadium from the next season.