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Cricket has never stopped evolving: from round-arm bowling becoming the standard, to the 15-degree rule for arm flexion while bowling. From the number of balls per over to the specifications of equipment - ranging from glove-webbing to bat handles - almost every aspect of the game is regulated. New rules are frequently put in place - especially in the shorter forms of the game, as in the case of Powerplays, free hits, and the tweaking of field restrictions.
From WG Grace, with his penchant for delivering a running commentary on opposition players and umpires, to Steve Waugh's Australians and their tactic of "mental disintegration", sledging is almost as old as cricket itself. The Australians, from Dennis Lillee to Merv Hughes have been the acknowledged masters, but Asian exponents like Kumar Sangakkara are fast catching up
Pakistan's tour of Australia in 2009-10 was disastrous on the field, where they lost all three Tests and five ODIs, but the fallout from that tour has been more dramatic with reports of player strife and indiscipline. On March 10, following a formal investigation, the PCB handed out bans of various degrees to three former captains - Mohammad Yousuf, Younis Khan and Shoaib Malik - and a fourth player and imposed fines on three others, all key members of the national side, on various conduct charges.
Players are barred, by Law 42.3, from rubbing the ball on the ground, interfering with its seam or surface, or using any implement that can alter the condition of the ball to thereby gain unfair advantage. There have been plenty of ugly incidents centring on accusations of ball-tampering through cricket's history: the John Lever "Vaseline" affair in 1976-77; the times England and New Zealand accused Pakistan of it in the early 1990s; Michael Atherton's admission that he used dirt to treat the ball against South Africa in 1994; and perhaps most infamously, the Oval Test of 2006 when Pakistan forfeited the match because they were accused of having tampered with the ball.
Oct 25, 2013: South Africa penalised for ball tampering-1 | Oct 26, 2013: Waqar: 'Big question mark on South African credibility'
The auction of two IPL franchises in March 2010 led to a string of allegations surrounding the league's operations and those of its stakeholders. The immediate fallout was the sacking of the league's creator Lalit Modi but the IPL has been at the centre of controversy ever since
Sep 26, 2013: Modi: 'I extracted maximum value for the BCCI' | Dec 28, 2013: IPL scandal: Did the BCCI do enough?
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