English batsman controversially run out while walking off for tea during a Test at Lord's in 2011, before being recalled by India in a spirit of cricket gesture.
12 incidents documented
Rajasthan Royals vs Various
16 May 2013
Three Rajasthan Royals players - S. Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan, and Ajit Chandila - were arrested by Delhi Police for spot-fixing in IPL 2013, agreeing to concede a set number of runs in specific overs.
England vs Australia
21-25 July 2011
Ian Bell was run out in bizarre circumstances when he assumed the ball was dead at the tea break, only for India to appeal and the umpires to give him out. MS Dhoni later withdrew the appeal.
Australia vs Pakistan
1999-11-22
On November 22, 1999 in only his second Test, Adam Gilchrist made an unbeaten 149 to chase down 369 against Pakistan at Bellerive Oval. He and Justin Langer added an unbroken 238 for the sixth wicket — Australia won by 4 wickets and Gilchrist's wicketkeeper-batter revolution was launched.
England vs West Indies
1986-07-03
After Greg Thomas told Viv Richards he'd missed the ball, Richards smashed the next delivery out of the ground and told Thomas to go find it.
Multiple (WSC vs Establishment Cricket)
24 November 1977
Media mogul Kerry Packer signed 51 of the world's best cricketers to a rival competition after being denied TV broadcast rights, fundamentally transforming professional cricket.
Yorkshire v Middlesex
1897-08-18
On 18 August 1897, Yorkshire's left-arm spinner Bobby Peel — at that point England's most successful slow bowler and a 100-Test-wicket man — turned up drunk on the third day of a Championship match against Middlesex at Bramall Lane. Lord Hawke ordered him from the field, and the Yorkshire committee suspended him for the rest of the season. Peel never played for Yorkshire again. The decision opened the door for the 19-year-old Wilfred Rhodes, who would take 4,184 first-class wickets across the next 33 years.
Various county sides
1865-08-01
Despite MCC's attempts to reduce gambling on cricket through the 1840s and 1850s, county cricket in the 1860s still operated in a culture where betting was widespread and where allegations of arranged results circulated freely among those closest to the game. Several county fixtures of the decade generated suspicion among contemporaries that the outcome had been agreed in advance, though the absence of formal investigation meant that no players were ever charged.
Gentlemen of England vs Players of England
1857-07-13
The 1857 Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's, played in July, was a vivid demonstration of the gap between the best amateurs and the full-time professionals. Jackson bowled the Gentlemen out for 71 in their second innings, Parr scored 82 in the Players' first, and the Players won by eight wickets — a margin that was typical of the decade. No fewer than four players who would be on the 1859 North America tour were in the Players' eleven.
All-England Eleven — players vs Clarke management
1848-07-01
By the late 1840s, William Clarke's management of the All-England Eleven had generated serious discontent among the players he recruited. Clarke kept the lion's share of gate money for himself, paid players a fixed day rate regardless of receipts, and selected and dropped players according to personal favour rather than merit. By 1848–49 a core of leading professionals — including John Wisden and James Dean — had concluded that Clarke's terms were exploitative and were planning the breakaway that would become the United All-England Eleven in 1852.
Alfred Mynn vs various challengers
1846-08-20
Through the early and mid-1840s Alfred Mynn, the Lion of Kent, was the unrivalled champion of single-wicket cricket — the high-stakes individual format in which leading professionals wagered on matches played one batsman against one bowler. Mynn's combination of fast roundarm bowling and heavy hitting made him formidable in the format; he defeated Fuller Pilch, William Hillyer and all other challengers, retiring from single-wicket competition around 1847 with his championship record intact.
Sussex
1827-09-01
Through the mid-1820s Sussex established themselves as the strongest county side in England, on the strength of the roundarm bowling of Lillywhite and Broadbridge. The Sussex team was acclaimed by the press as 'champion county' from 1826 onwards — the first time the title was applied informally to a single county side and the seed of the formal County Championship that would emerge sixty years later.
MCC vs Surrey
1813-07-26
On 26 July 1813 the weekly sporting paper Bell's Life in London printed a complete batter-by-batter scorecard of the previous week's MCC v Surrey match — the earliest documented printed scorecard in the British press. The publication of full scoresheets in the popular sporting press transformed cricket's reach: from this point major matches reached an audience of tens of thousands of readers, far beyond the few hundred who attended in person.