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QUIZ | How well do you know about the dark side of Cricket

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BySportsCafe Desk, SportsCafe Editor

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The recent ‘Sandpapergate’ scandal which involved Australian trio - Steven Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft brought back a lot of dark memories in cricket. We have put together a quiz to check if all you cricket lovers can recall some of the sport's biggest scandals over the years.

The most infamous match-fixing scandal occurred over a decade ago in 2000 when Delhi Police charged South African captain Hansie Cronje with fixing his team's One Day Internationals against India that March. Mohammad Azharuddin, who was Indian captain at that time, was accused of introducing Cronje to the bookmaker that asked him to throw a match, to which further investigations found Azharuddin guilty of match-fixing. 

A lot has changed since then as the ICC have become more strict over the years when it came to match-fixing and spot-fixing accusations. Issues like ball-tampering, pitch fixing and others continue to tamper the sport of cricket every now and then, as was seen in the Test series between Australia and South Africa. We have put together an interesting quiz to test your knowledge of the various scandals that have taken place over the years in the sport of cricket. Have a crack at it yourselves!

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