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#1990s

6 incidents tagged

🚨Serious

Pakistan Match Fixing Cassette Scandal 1999

Pakistan vs Various

1 June 1999

Leaked audio cassettes containing conversations between Pakistani players and bookmakers provided crucial evidence for the Qayyum Commission and proved fixing in Pakistani cricket.

#pakistan#cassette#match fixing
🚨Explosive

The Sharjah Cricket Fixing Era

Various

1 January 1998

Sharjah cricket, which hosted numerous ODI tournaments from 1985 to 2003, became widely associated with match fixing, with allegations of underworld figures including Dawood Ibrahim influencing results.

#sharjah#dawood ibrahim#fixing
🏏Serious

India's Systematic LBW Denials — West Indies 1994-96 Era

West Indies vs India

November 1994

Through the early-to-mid 1990s, before neutral umpires became mandatory, home umpires in India consistently turned down LBW appeals against Indian batsmen. Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh were repeatedly denied. The era became a key argument for neutral umpires.

#west indies#india#lbw
🏏Serious

Ambrose and Walsh Denied — Home Umpire Bias in India, 1994

India vs West Indies

October 1994

Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh were repeatedly denied plumb LBW appeals by Indian home umpires throughout West Indies' 1994 tour of India. The era of home umpire bias was at its height before neutral umpires became mandatory in 2002.

#curtly ambrose#courtney walsh#india
🥊Serious

Wasim Akram's Relentless Battle Against Michael Atherton

England vs Pakistan

1992-08-06

Wasim Akram's decade-long pursuit of Michael Atherton's wicket through devastating reverse swing and inswing produced one of cricket's most compelling ongoing rivalries — England's most determined opener against the greatest left-arm fast bowler of all time.

#wasim-akram#atherton#swing
🥊Moderate

Waqar Younis's Yorker Campaign Against Alec Stewart

England vs Pakistan

1992-06-04

Waqar Younis repeatedly targeted Alec Stewart's front foot with devastating inswinging yorkers throughout the 1990s, making Stewart's dismissal — bowled or LBW — a recurring pattern that defined both men's careers as a study in attacking strategy against a technically orthodox batsman.

#waqar-younis#alec-stewart#1990s