Year Ender 2025: 10 biggest controversies of Test cricket 2025, players clashed on the field, created ruckus from umpire to ICC

Year Ender 2025: It is not a big deal to have an altercation between players on the cricket field. Often players are seen fighting with each other. Even in the year 2025, many controversies took place on the cricket field. Some controversies will be memorable to the fans forever. Here we are talking about 10 big controversies that took place in Test cricket in the year 2025. The names of the Border Gavaskar Trophy and Ashes series tournaments are also involved in this controversy.

1. Manchester ‘handshake’ controversy (India vs England)

There was a handshake controversy on the last day of the Test match played between India and England in Manchester. Actually the match was moving towards a draw. In such a situation, captain Ben Stokes tried to draw the match by shaking hands with Ravindra Jadeja. But Jadeja refused to shake hands with Stokes.

2. Controversial dismissal of Marnus Labuschagne (Ashes – MCG)

During the Melbourne Test match, Joe Root took a low catch of Marnus Labuschagne. Labuschagne felt that the ball had touched the ground. However, the umpire gave him out and Labuschagne got furious after this.

3. Gautam Gambhir vs Pitch Curator (Oval Test)

There was a heated argument between head coach Gautam Gambhir and curator Lee Fortis during the practice session before the Oval Test against England. The curator had refused Gambhir to come on the pitch. There was an uproar after this.

4. Aggressive celebration of Mohammed Siraj (Lord’s Test)

Mohammed Siraj celebrated aggressively by dismissing Ben Duckett in the match against England. After this, ICC considered Siraj in violation of the Code of Conduct (Section 2.5) and fined Siraj 15% of the match fee.

5. Controversy over the word ‘Grovel’

Before the Guwahati Test match between India and South Africa, African head coach Shukri Conrad had used the word ‘grovel’ to describe his team’s strategy against India. After this, Anil Kumble and Cheteshwar Pujara had objected to this word.

6. Uproar over quality of Dukes ball (Lord’s Test)

The match was played between India and England at Lord’s. After the defeat in this match, India had complained to the ICC, in which it was said that the replacement ball given by the umpires got spoiled in just 10 overs and it looked 30-35 overs old.

7: Virat Kohli and Sam Constas collide (MCG Test)

There was an incident of shoulder collision between Virat Kohli and Sam Constas during the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2025-26. After this there was a lot of ruckus on the field.

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8: DRS and Snicko failure in Adelaide Test

In the Adelaide Test match of the Ashes series, Alex Carey showed a spike in ‘ultra-age’ in one case, but he was given not-out. There was a lot of uproar after this due to a technical glitch in DRS.

9. Controversy over the name ‘Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy’

It was suddenly decided to change the name of the series played between India and England from ‘Pataudi Trophy’ to ‘Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy’. After this a new debate was born in the cricket world.

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10. England’s ‘time wasting’ strategy in Lord’s Test

In the match played between India and England at Lord’s, Indian players accused Jack Crawley and said that he was deliberately wasting time. So that they do not have to play extra overs. After this there was an argument between Shubhman Gill and Crowley.

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