phillip hughes prior to the first day play of the first test match between australia and india at adelaide oval on december 9 2014 afp photobad behaviour sledging the opposition players became a norm as quite a few players put up a poor example of how one should behave on a sporting field especially with millions watching them on tv the verbal skirmishes were examples of the receding tolerance levels of the playerswest indies pull out of india sport has had a history of teams or athletes pulling out of events citing security concerns but it was a rude awakening to see the west indies players abandoning a bilateral series over monetary issues with their board it pinched bccis pockets and robbed indian batsmen of some easy test runs as the west indian players refused to budge and left after playing four odis only a smarting bcci vowed to sue wicb for rs 400 crores the fate of which we still have to hearajmal banned for chucking saeed ajmal found himself in an unwanted list of players who were banned from international cricket as the icc uncharacteristically launched a drive to throw out bowlers with suspect actions from the game upon testing the flex in ajmals elbow was found to be around 42 degressmuch above the permissible limit of 15 degrees many in pakistan felt that ajmal was targeted to weaken their teams chances in the world up last heard the spinner withdrew himself from the wc squad squadkps public spat with england players having been made the scapegoat and ousted from the side after englands whitewash in australia a seething kevin pietersen hit back by alleging in his autobiography that graeme swann stuart broad matt prior and james anderson had introduced a bullying culture in the side he revealed that these players would scream at the fielder once a catch would go down and that coach andy flower ruled by fear his claims were backed up by ricky pontingtext by santosh suri gaurav gupta follow toi sports on twitter toisportsnews