By no stretch of imagination has 2018 been a bad year in Indian cricket.

The men’s team may have not won more than they lost in Tests, but in 39 limited overs matches across the year, Virat Kohli’s side tasted defeat just eight times.

In the women’s game, the prime focus for the past 12 months was on the shortest format, with this being a World T20 year – and the Women in Blue won 16 out of 25 T20Is, while also returning to the WT20 semis for the first time since 2010.

But Indian cricket’s troubles this last calendar lay largely away from the field: from an oft-angered captain and a verbally trigger-happy coach in the men’s setup, to an ungainly clash of egos in the women’s, and from a sexual assault charge on a BCCI supremo, to unresolved mess in cricket administration.

Five controversies from 2018 which Indian cricket could have done without: