Indian Cricket Team: The Indian cricket team is at the peak of its fame at this time and the Indian cricket team is continuously performing well in every format of cricket. The main reason for this performance of the Indian cricket team is the excellent control of the cricket board. As you all know, apart from IPL, no player of the Indian cricket team is able to participate in any franchise league.

Some people believe that the Indian Cricket Board already gives so much money to the players that they do not need to play in any league in the world.

But there was a time when Indian cricket was going through a bad time.

The darkest day in the history of the Indian Cricket Team

The year was 1996 and the tournament was ICC Cricket World Cup.

The semi-final match of this tournament was played between the Indian cricket team and Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. The Indian cricket team performed so well in this match that the Indian supporters present in the stadium lost their temper. After seeing the poor performance of the team, the angry Indian supporters set the ground on fire. This incident that took place on the cricket ground is also called the most unlucky day of Indian cricket.

Sri Lanka was declared the winner in the match

When Indian supporters set the ground on fire after watching the performance of the Indian cricket team, the match referee declared the Sri Lankan cricket team as the winner on the basis of their best performance.

Thus, the Sri Lankan team qualified for the final of the Cricket World Cup 1996. In the final match, the Sri Lankan team defeated Australia badly and won their first title. However, some people believe that some Indian players had done match fixing for the semi-final match.

The match was something like this

If we talk about the semi-final match of the Cricket World Cup played at Eden Gardens in 1996, then the Indian cricket team won the toss and decided to bowl first.

Coming to bat first, the Sri Lankan cricket team scored 251 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs.

After seeing the target of 252 runs, it seemed that the Indian cricket team could easily achieve this target. But one by one all the batsmen of the Indian cricket team got out like a pack of cards and till the match was stopped by the spectators, the team scored 120 runs at the loss of 8 wickets. After this the match referee declared the Sri Lanka cricket team the winner of the match.