The Symonds-Harbhajan Controversy 

The 2008 India’s tour of Australia was marred by several controversial moments. The Australian players sparked verbal skirmishes towards the young Indian Cricket team and played the game in a very unsporting style all throughout the tour. And, during once such incident it was alleged that Harbhajan Singh (the Indian off spinner) had racially abused Andrew Symonds. Subsequently Singh was banned for 3 test matches and many believed that it was a ploy of the Australians to get the influential spinner off from the forthcoming test matches. Whether right or wrong, both the cases were really unsporting for that matter. But, later on Singh was vindicated when the charge of racism was dropped against him and the ban was revoked.