8. Spot-fixing involving Pakistani players
The spot-fixing scandal of 2010 involving a few Pakistani cricketers raised quite a few eyebrows when Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif, and Mohammad Amir were convicted of spot-fixing in a Test match against England at Lords.
An undercover reporter from the English newspaper News Of The World exposed the scandal by a video tape which filmed Amir, Asif and Butt accepting money from a bookie named Mazhar Majeed for bowling deliberate no-balls at specific points in an over.