Calcutta: Cricket’s biggest match-fixing scandal was unearthed in 2000, when Hansie Cronje admitted he had accepted money to throw matches. Soon players from other countries were implicated, among them Mohammed Azharuddin and Saleem Malik.

Since then, allegations of fixing — including the new phenomenon of spot-fixing — have cropped up sporadically, and it has been acknowledged that bookmakers and the underworld have been active in trying to influence results and specific moments in play.

In 2010, scandal reared its head again when three leading Pakistan players were questioned by Scotland Yard and suspended by the ICC over spot-fixing charges.

Last year the BCCI banned T.P. Sudhindra for life and handed out varying degrees of punishments to four others — Shalabh Srivastava, Mohnish Mishra, Amit Yadav and Abhinav Bali — after a television channel’s sting operation revealed that the guilty five had agreed to improper deals in the IPL and other matches.

Here’s a list of the players who have been banned

Saleem Malik (Pak) — Life ban in 2000

Ata-ur Rehman (Pak) — Life ban in 2000

Mohammed Azharuddin (Ind) — Life ban in 2000

Ajay Sharma (Ind) — Life ban in 2000

Manoj Prabhakar (Ind) — 5-year ban in 2000

Ajay Jadeja (Ind) — 5-year ban in 2000

Hansie Cronje (SA) — Life ban in 2000

Herschelle Gibbs (SA) — 6-month ban in 2000

Henry Williams (SA) — 6-month ban in 2000

Maurice Odumbe (Ken) — 5-year ban in 2003

Marlon Samuels (WI) — 2-year ban in 2008

Salman Butt (Pak) — 10-year ban in 2010

Mohammed Asif (Pak) — 7-year ban in 2010

Mohammed Aamer (Pak) — 5-year ban in 2010

Danish Kaneria (Pak) — Life ban in 2012

T P Sudhindra (Ind) — Life ban in 2012

Shalabh Srivastava (Ind) — 5-year ban in 2012

Mohnish Mishra, Amit Yadav and Abhinav Bali — 1-year ban in 2012