56 incidents documented
Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Mumbai Indians
10 May 2026
Tim David was fined 30% of his match fee and handed two demerit points after appearing to raise his middle finger towards the Mumbai Indians dugout as RCB's two-wicket win sealed MI's exit from IPL 2026 — a gesture broadcast cameras caught live and social media amplified within minutes.
Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru
14 April 2026
Tim David fined 25% of match fee for twice refusing to hand the ball to umpires in the same match — a Level 1 Code of Conduct breach.
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians
20 May 2026
Hardik Pandya fined 10% of match fee for knocking bails off in frustration during MI vs KKR — a Level 1 equipment abuse offence in IPL 2026.
Punjab Kings vs Mumbai Indians
15 May 2026
Punjab Kings fast bowler Arshdeep Singh sparked a national controversy when a video from a pre-match interaction before PBKS's IPL 2026 encounter with Mumbai Indians went viral on 15 May 2026. In the clip, Arshdeep greeted Mumbai Indians batter Tilak Varma by calling him "Andhere" — Hindi slang meaning "dark one" or "darkness" — before asking whether he had applied sunscreen and then holding him next to teammate Naman Dhir, saying "This is the real glow of Punjab." The remarks, directed at Tilak's dark skin tone, were condemned by former India spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan as a racial slur and generated widespread public debate about the normalisation of colourism in Indian cricket. Mumbai Indians' social media response — a viral post showing Tilak emerging from darkness — was itself criticised for amplifying rather than defusing the controversy.
Mumbai Indians vs Punjab Kings
15 May 2026
Mumbai Indians batting coach Kieron Pollard was fined 15 per cent of his applicable match fee and given one demerit point after directing audible abusive language at the fourth umpire during MI's tense last-ball IPL 2026 victory over Punjab Kings at the Wankhede Stadium on 15 May 2026. The offence — a Level 1 breach of Article 2.3 of the IPL Code of Conduct — occurred during the 19th over of the second innings. Pollard admitted the offence and accepted the sanction imposed by match referee Pankaj Dharmani.
Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings
3 May 2026
A 10th-over flashpoint between Tilak Varma and Jamie Overton during MI's innings against CSK at Wankhede produced one of the most replayed clips of IPL 2026 — and a backstory CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad later admitted he had personally lit. After Tilak struck Overton for a four, Gaikwad told Overton from the boundary that the all-rounder ought to "go home and skip the IPL". Overton, infuriated, took it onto the field; the next over, Tilak nudged the ball towards midwicket, looked for a second run, and had to swerve past Overton at the non-striker's end. Words flew. Suryakumar Yadav and the umpires intervened.
Mumbai Indians
29 April 2026
A pre-match practice session at the Wankhede produced one of IPL 2026's most circulated bystander clips. Quinton de Kock, in middle practice ahead of a Mumbai Indians home game, hit a towering straight six that cleared the practice area and headed for the back wall. A ball boy, repositioning behind the boundary, attempted a leaping catch and instead caught his shoulder against a TV set on a stand, sending the monitor toppling onto the grass. The ball, untouched, rolled away. The TV survived. The clip did not.
Mumbai Indians vs Sunrisers Hyderabad
29 April 2026
Ryan Rickelton smashed the fastest century by a Mumbai Indians batter in IPL history — 100 off 44 balls — in MI's clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad on 29 April 2026. Rickelton finished unbeaten on 123 off 55 deliveries, the highest individual score by an MI batter in IPL history.
Mumbai Indians
5 May 2026
Hardik Pandya's IPL 2026 with Mumbai Indians has produced the lowest captaincy win rate in MI's franchise history — 40.54 per cent — and a four-match losing streak that left the side on the wrong side of the playoff race. Speculation about whether Rohit Sharma or Suryakumar Yadav should take back the captaincy ran through the season, sharpened by a public Bumrah-Pandya field-placement clash on 16 April and Ravichandran Ashwin's "underwhelmed" comment on broadcast.
Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru
12 April 2026
Rohit Sharma sustained a hamstring injury during MI's 12 April 2026 match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru and missed at least three subsequent matches as a result. The injury, suffered during a stretching shot, came at a moment when MI's struggling 2026 campaign could not afford the loss of its most experienced batter.
Mumbai Indians
April 2026
Ravichandran Ashwin, working as a broadcast analyst during IPL 2026, said publicly that he was "underwhelmed" with Hardik Pandya's Mumbai Indians captaincy — a rare on-air criticism from a fellow active senior international that became a recurring reference point in MI's mid-season captaincy debate.
Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings
April 2026
Mumbai Indians' use of Shardul Thakur as concussion replacement for Mitchell Santner during their Wankhede match against CSK in April 2026 placed the IPL's like-for-like concussion-substitution rule under public scrutiny. Critics argued that an all-rounder for a frontline spinner was not a like-for-like swap. MI's coaching staff, led by Mahela Jayawardene, defended the call as procedurally correct.
Mumbai Indians
April 2026
Mumbai Indians head coach Mahela Jayawardene used the post-match press conference following the Santner-Thakur concussion substitution at Wankhede to publicly clarify the IPL's like-for-like protocol — confirming MI had followed the rule exactly and that the match referee's approval had been procedurally sound.
Mumbai Indians vs Punjab Kings
16 April 2026
Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya and senior bowler Jasprit Bumrah were involved in a visible on-field disagreement over field placements during MI's defeat to Punjab Kings at the Wankhede Stadium on 16 April 2026. The incident, broadcast live, came during PBKS's chase as Prabhsimran Singh — eventually 80 not out and player of the match — was building his innings. After Bumrah dropped a catch from Pandya's bowling, Pandya was filmed reacting angrily towards his senior bowler. The defeat was MI's fourth in a row.
Mohammedan SC vs Abahani Limited
2021-10-29
Shakib Al Hasan completely lost his composure during a domestic match, kicking the stumps out of the ground and later uprooting them after disagreeing with an umpire's decision.
Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings
12 May 2019
Lasith Malinga appeared to overstep on the crucial final over but the no-ball was not called, potentially costing CSK the IPL 2019 title.
Islamabad United / Peshawar Zalmi
10 February 2017
Pakistani opener Sharjeel Khan and batsman Khalid Latif were suspended during PSL 2017 in Dubai after being found guilty of spot-fixing offenses.
Indian Premier League
1 April 2009
A strategic timeout in cricket is a brief, scheduled break in play during a T20 innings — most prominently used in the Indian Premier League — that allows the fielding and batting teams to consult tactically and that gives broadcasters a defined window for advertising. The IPL introduced the strategic timeout in its second season in 2009, and the rule has since become a defining structural feature of the tournament. Each innings has two strategic timeouts of two and a half minutes each, one taken by the bowling side and one by the batting side, both within fixed over-windows.
Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians
25 April 2008
Harbhajan Singh slapped Sreesanth after an IPL match in 2008, with Sreesanth photographed crying on the field, in one of the most infamous player-on-player incidents in cricket history.
Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab
25 April 2008
Harbhajan Singh slapped Sreesanth after an IPL match, leaving Sreesanth in tears on the field. Harbhajan was banned for the remainder of the IPL season.
Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab
25 April 2008
Harbhajan Singh was caught on camera slapping Sreesanth after an IPL match, leading to Harbhajan's suspension and a tearful Sreesanth becoming a viral image.
Middlesex / England — Denis Compton
1947-09-13
In the dry, sunny English summer of 1947, Denis Compton scored 3,816 first-class runs at 90.85 with 18 centuries — both records that have stood for nearly 80 years and, with the modern fixture list, are widely considered unbreakable. His Middlesex partner Bill Edrich made 3,539 runs with 12 hundreds in the same summer, the second-highest of all time. Their batting carried Middlesex to the County Championship and lifted England to a 3-0 Test series win over South Africa. Compton was the Brylcreem Boy who turned austerity Britain back towards joy.
Dominions XI v England XI
1945-08-27
Three months after VE Day, Keith Miller hit 185 for a Dominions XI against England at Lord's, the highest score of an unforgettable post-war summer. He went from 61 not out overnight to 185 in 99 minutes on the third morning, striking seven sixes — including one over the press box that landed in the upper tier and another that cleared 170 metres into Block Q. Wisden called the match 'one of the finest ever seen' at headquarters; Miller's innings, more than any other in 1945, told English audiences that pre-war balance of power had been broken.
Glamorgan / England (cricket); 1st Battalion Welsh Guards (military)
1944-08-05
Major Maurice Turnbull of the Welsh Guards, the Glamorgan and England all-round sportsman who had played nine Tests, captained Glamorgan for ten years and represented Wales at rugby and squash, was shot through the head by a sniper near the Normandy village of Montchamp on 5 August 1944. He was 38. His was the second Test cricketer death of the Normandy campaign and ended the most polished all-round sporting career produced by inter-war Welsh cricket.
Yorkshire / England (cricket); 1st Battalion Green Howards (military)
1943-07-31
Hedley Verity, the Yorkshire and England slow left-arm bowler whose 144 Test wickets at 24.37 included a record 15 wickets in a single Lord's Test, died on 31 July 1943 in a German-controlled hospital at Caserta after being severely wounded leading his platoon during the Allied invasion of Sicily. He was 38, and had not played first-class cricket since taking 7/9 against Sussex on the day Britain declared war. His death — alongside that of fellow Test cricketers Ken Farnes, Ross Gregory and Maurice Turnbull — became the most poignant individual loss cricket suffered in the Second World War.
Victoria / Australia (cricket); RAF 215 Squadron (military)
1942-06-10
Pilot Officer Ross Gregory of the Royal Australian Air Force, attached to RAF 215 Squadron, was killed on 10 June 1942 when the Wellington bomber on which he was the observer exploded in mid-air near Gafargaon in the Mymensingh district of Bengal. Gregory had played two Tests for Australia in 1937 and was widely tipped to be a long-term replacement for Bradman in the middle order. He is the only Test cricketer to die in active service in Asia, and his death — alongside those of Farnes, Verity and Turnbull — became part of the running ledger of cricketers lost to the war.
Essex / England (cricket); No.12 OTU, RAF Chipping Warden (military)
1941-10-20
On the night of 20 October 1941, the England Test fast bowler Pilot Officer Ken Farnes was killed when his Vickers Wellington bomber crashed shortly after take-off from RAF Chipping Warden in Oxfordshire on a night-flying training exercise. Farnes was 30, had taken 60 wickets in 15 Tests between 1934 and 1939, and had been one of the few amateurs in the country considered the equal of the leading Australian fast bowlers. His death, just 11 weeks before Hedley Verity was wounded in Sicily, was the first major loss of an active England Test cricketer in the Second World War.
BCCI / Indian cricket administration
1928-12-04
On 4 December 1928 representatives of regional cricket associations met in Delhi and constituted the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Within 18 months the BCCI had been admitted to the Imperial Cricket Conference, secured Test status for India, and laid the foundation for what would become the wealthiest cricket administration in the world.
Middlesex v Worcestershire
1925-07-21
On 21 July 1925 the 36-year-old Patsy Hendren made 277 for Middlesex against Worcestershire at New Road — at the time his career-best, in a 1925 season in which he scored 3,311 runs at 70.44 and was second in the English averages only to Jack Hobbs.
Middlesex
1914-08-01
Patsy Hendren made his Middlesex debut in 1907 and through the 1910s grew into one of the most popular cricketers ever to play at Lord's — short, jovial, brilliantly quick in the deep, and a batsman who would eventually score 170 first-class centuries.
Middlesex, Somerset
1907-05-22
Albert Trott is the only batsman to clear the Lord's pavilion (off Monty Noble, 31 July 1899) and one of only two men to take two hat-tricks in a single first-class innings — both in his benefit match v Somerset at Lord's on 22 May 1907. Penniless and ill, he killed himself on 30 July 1914, the day before the 15th anniversary of his Lord's six.
MCC, Middlesex, England
1903-12-11
Pelham 'Plum' Warner, the Trinidad-born Oxford-educated Middlesex amateur, captained the first MCC team to tour Australia under the club's name in 1903-04 and won that series 3-2. The tour established the convention that English overseas tours were thereafter MCC enterprises rather than private commercial ventures, an institutional change in international cricket whose effects lasted until 1977.
Middlesex, Leicestershire
1900-07-20
Bernard Bosanquet developed the googly — a leg-spinner's wrong'un that spins from off to leg — from a parlour game called 'Twisti-Twosti' played around 1897 with a tennis ball on a billiard table. He bowled the delivery in first-class cricket for Middlesex v Leicestershire at Lord's in July 1900, dismissing one batsman 'after four bounces'. Within five years it had revolutionised spin bowling.
Middlesex CCC
1899-09-15
In the 1899 first-class season Albert Trott scored 1,175 runs and took 239 wickets for Middlesex and the various invitational sides he played for. He became, and remains, the only cricketer to do a 1,000-run / 200-wicket double in a single first-class season — a feat he would repeat in 1900. The same summer he hit the only six ever to clear the Lord's pavilion. Wisden made him a Cricketer of the Year in 1899.
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.
Gloucestershire v Sussex/Somerset/Yorkshire/Middlesex/Kent
1895-05-30
Grace started his 1895 season on 9 May and finished it on 30 May with 1,016 first-class runs at an average over 100. Scores of 13, 103, 18, 25, 288, 52, 257, 73*, 18 and 169 made him the first player to score 1,000 first-class runs in May, a Victorian benchmark only matched twice since — by Wally Hammond in 1927 and Charlie Hallows in 1928. He was 46 going on 47.
Nottinghamshire CCC v Captain Henry Holden (committee)
1881-06-01
In the summer of 1881 seven of Nottinghamshire's leading professionals — Alfred Shaw, Arthur Shrewsbury, Fred Morley, John Selby, William Barnes, Wilfrid Flowers and (briefly) Mordecai Sherwin — refused to play for the county after a dispute with the secretary, Captain Henry Holden, over fixtures, pay and the right to a guaranteed benefit. The strike crippled Notts' season, was the first major industrial action in English cricket, and laid the groundwork for the formal employment contracts that professionals would gradually win across the next two decades.
Middlesex vs Lancashire
1865-07-26
Vyell Edward Walker of Middlesex took all ten wickets in a Lancashire innings at Lord's on 26 July 1865 — one of the earliest documented instances of a bowler taking all ten in a first-class match. Walker, a medium-pace round-arm bowler who also captained Middlesex, achieved the feat without assistance from any other bowler, delivering one of the most complete individual bowling performances of the Victorian era.
Lancashire vs Middlesex
1865-07-20
Old Trafford had been laid out in 1857 as the home of Manchester Cricket Club. Lancashire CCC, formed in 1864, played its first first-class match at the ground in July 1865 against Middlesex and won by 62 runs. Old Trafford has been the home of Lancashire ever since — the second-oldest continuously used first-class venue after Lord's, host of more than 100 Test matches, and the indispensable counterweight to the southern grounds in English cricket geography.
Sussex, Middlesex; later umpire and publisher
1865-04-01
John Lillywhite — Sussex roundarm bowler, umpire of the 1862 Willsher walk-off, and founder in 1865 of John Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion (the 'Green Lily') — sat at the centre of the 1860s cricket establishment. Son of William 'Nonpareil' Lillywhite, brother to Fred and James, he played first-class cricket from 1848 to 1873, umpired 29 first-class matches, and established the family's central London emporium at Euston Square in 1863.
Middlesex cricket establishment
1864-02-02
Middlesex County Cricket Club was founded on 2 February 1864 at a meeting in London, the same year in which the MCC legalised overarm bowling and John Wisden published his first Almanack. It was one of several county clubs formally constituted in the busy years of 1863–65 as English cricket reorganised itself around a county structure that would eventually evolve into a formal championship.
Nottinghamshire CCC and county cricket administration
1863-04-01
Trent Bridge underwent significant improvements through the 1860s as Nottinghamshire county cricket consolidated its position as one of England's strongest counties. The ground that William Clarke had developed from the 1830s was enlarged, a proper pavilion constructed, and the playing surface improved to a standard that attracted major representative fixtures. The Trent Bridge of the 1860s was the prototype of the modern county ground.
Sussex, Kent, Middlesex; All-England Eleven; United All-England Eleven
1863-09-01
Long before John Wisden's name appeared on the spine of an almanack, he was the most feared fast bowler of his generation. At five feet four he was the smallest fast bowler in first-class history; nicknamed the 'Little Wonder' by umpire Bob Thoms, he took more than 1,000 first-class wickets at 6.66 between 1846 and 1863. In 1850 at Lord's he took all ten North-South wickets in an innings — every one bowled, the only ten-bowled innings in first-class history.
Surrey, Middlesex and All-England elevens
1858-06-01
Charles Lawrence, a fast roundarm bowler from Middlesex who also played for Surrey, was in the late 1850s an established professional of the second rank — a reliable bowler and capable batsman, selected for the 1861–62 Australian tour under Stephenson. Like Caffyn after the 1863–64 tour, Lawrence chose to remain in Australia, coaching at the Albert Cricket Club in Sydney and producing the first generation of New South Wales cricketers who would compete with England on level terms.
MCC Committee
1841-05-01
The MCC committee in 1841 further tightened the maximum-stakes rule introduced in 1807, responding to renewed concerns that bookmakers operating at the Lord's ground were corrupting the conduct of matches. The committee's minutes record a formal resolution to exclude known betting men from the ground and to forbid players from receiving money from outside parties during matches — an early attempt to codify what would later become cricket's anti-corruption framework.
Marylebone School vs Westminster
1828-06-07
On 7 June 1828 the Marylebone Public School played Westminster at Lord's — the earliest documented school match featuring Marylebone (the school that would become St Marylebone Grammar). Westminster won by 19 runs. The match is part of the developing nineteenth-century pattern of organised public-school cricket at the major venues.
MCC committee vs George Osbaldeston
1818-08-01
After losing a single-wicket match to Lord Frederick Beauclerk in 1818 in circumstances that he believed were rigged against him, the Yorkshire squire George Osbaldeston resigned from the Marylebone Cricket Club in a fit of temper. When he tried to rejoin some months later he found the door barred: Beauclerk, on the committee, refused his readmission. E.H. Budd's attempted intercession failed. Osbaldeston, one of the leading all-round sportsmen of the age, never played senior cricket of any standing again.
MCC committee vs William Lambert
1817-07-26
Three weeks after scoring the first two centuries in a single match, William Lambert was banned from Lord's by the MCC committee on a charge of having deliberately underperformed in an earlier England v Nottingham match in which both sides had been suspected of arranging the result. The evidence was gathered by Lord Frederick Beauclerk, his old enemy from the 1810 single-wicket affair. Lambert never played senior cricket again. He was, in effect, the first cricketer banned for match-fixing.
Middlesex vs Epsom
1815-08-25
On 24-25 August 1815, in a Middlesex v Epsom match at the new Lord's, the Surrey amateurs Felix Ladbroke and Frederick Woodbridge scored 116 and 107 respectively — the first centuries made on the third Lord's ground at St John's Wood. The match was an unremarkable end-of-season fixture, but the dual hundreds, on a pitch barely sixteen months old, showed that the new ground could yield big scores in a way that the old grounds had never reliably done.
n/a (private practice and family cricket)
1814-06-15
Christiana Willes (1786-1873) was the younger sister of John Willes of Tonford, the Kent gentleman who pushed roundarm bowling into senior cricket. According to a 1907 memoir by her son Edward Hodges and earlier testimony recorded by Arthur Haygarth, Christiana bowled to her brother in a barn at Tonford during the 1810s, and the higher arm action she used in those practice sessions was the prototype that John adopted in matches. The story has been embellished — particularly the popular claim that her wide skirts forced her to bowl roundarm — but the underlying record places Christiana at the technical origin of one of cricket's most consequential bowling reforms.
Various private elevens at Lord's Middle Ground
1813-06-09
In the three years between 1811 and 1813, with the Napoleonic War at its height and the country bleeding men and money, only three senior cricket matches were played in England — all of them at Lord's Middle Ground in Marylebone. The fixture lists of the previous century shrank to a handful of private challenges between the elevens of Aislabie, Beauclerk, Osbaldeston and Bligh. County cricket effectively ceased to exist; the great clubs of Kent, Surrey and Hampshire scarcely fielded a senior side. Cricket survived only through the obstinacy of a few amateurs at Lord's.
MCC vs Middlesex
1810-05-08
On 8 May 1810 the MCC played Middlesex on the original Lord's ground at Dorset Square — the last major match on the site Thomas Lord had opened in 1787. The Portman Estate's notice to terminate, served in October 1808, took effect at the close of play. The Dorset Square ground was given over to building work within weeks; cricket at Lord's continued at the new Middle Ground at North Bank.
MCC vs Middlesex
1810-06-21
On 21-22 June 1810 George Osbaldeston — the Yorkshire baronet who would become the most flamboyant amateur sportsman of the Regency — made his major-match cricket debut for MCC against Middlesex at the new Middle Ground. He was twenty-three, already famous for his hunting and his pugilism, and over the next decade he would establish himself as the fastest underarm bowler in England and the only serious rival to Lord Frederick Beauclerk.
MCC vs Middlesex
1806-08-25
On 25 August 1806 Edward Hayward Budd — eighteen years old and four years into his major-match career — scored 110 for the MCC against Middlesex at Lord's. It was his first major century, and the start of a thirty-year career as the most powerful straight hitter of the underarm era. Budd would, in the 1820s, regularly hit balls clear out of the Lord's ground.
Middlesex vs Surrey
1803-06-15
In a Middlesex v Surrey match at Lord's in June 1803, the Buckinghamshire professional William Fennex did something contemporaries called 'astonishing': he advanced down the pitch to drive the ball before it pitched. Until that moment batters had played strictly from the crease, blocking length balls and waiting for the loose ball to cut. Fennex's running attack is the first recorded use of the technique that became the foundation of modern off-side play.
Twenty-Two of Middlesex vs Twenty-Two of Surrey
1802-09-13
On 13-16 September 1802 a 16-year-old War Office clerk named Edward Hayward Budd appeared in his first match at Lord's, playing for a Twenty-Two of Middlesex against a Twenty-Two of Surrey. He scored 9 and 5 in an odds match that Arthur Haygarth's Scores and Biographies records as his earliest senior fixture. Budd would become, alongside Beauclerk, the dominant gentleman batter of the next twenty years.