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Top 10 cricket controversies that shook the world

New Delhi: Cricket is known as a gentleman's game  but there are incidents that shook the cricket fraternity across the globe and, of course, marred the spirit of cricket.We have compiled a list of  top

8. Hansie Cronje



South African skipper Hansie Cronje's image, regarded by fellow professionals as one of the finest ambassadors of the game, came crashing down on April 7 2000 when Delhi revealed they had a recording of a conversation between Cronje and Sanjay Chawla, a representative of an Indian betting syndicate, over match-fixing allegations.

On April 11 Cronje was sacked as captain after confessing to Ali Bacher that he accepted between $10,000 and $15,000 from a London-based bookmaker for 'forecasting' results.

Later, Cronje released a statement that revealed all his contact with bookmakers revealing the tens of thousands of dollars he had accepted to concede runs, lose wickets and throw matches. On October 11 Cronje was banned from playing or coaching cricket for life.

He died in June 2002 his plane crashed into the Outeniqua mountains northeast of the airport. Cronje, was 32 years old.

9. Spot fixing fiasco involving Pakistani players



The spot fixing scandal of 2010 involving a few Pakistani cricketers raised quite a few eyebrows when Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were convicted of spot fixing in a Test match against England at Lords.

An undercover reporter from the English newspaper News Of The World exposed the scandal by a video tape which filmed Amir, Asif and Butt accepting money from a bookie named Mazhar Majeed for bowling deliberate no balls at specific points in an over.