Match Fixing in Cricket where 10 cricketers banned for Doping or Corruption. You may have heard the match-fixing in cricket or doping. Now one more case has been added to the list of match-fixing in cricket or banned for Doping for few to several months or years. Although the definition of Doping elaborate in the book of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The Agency does not allow players to take any kind of drug which intent on achieving glory amount to Doping.
The Agency WADA not only restrict the player to use the banned substance but also conducts the random test on players as part of their comprehensive dope test system. players are not taking any lesson from the match-fixing in cricketers or cricketers who earlier have been banned for doping or corruption.
Match fixing in cricket can ruin crickets carriers
If a player is caught in Doping, his career may be ruined for many months or years, or they may not come back as a sportsman. Despite the high restricted policies, players continue to have indulged in doping and banned substance which is used to enhance their performance in the field.
After all the match-fixing or doping cases, now the Yusuf Pathan is the latest edition in the list. Take a look at the Players or Cricketers who have been banned for match-fixing in cricket or Doping.
Here are the top 10 cases of match fixing or dopping from top cricketers
10. Yusuf Pathan:
All-rounder Indian Cricketer and brother of left-arm bowler Irfan Pathan failed a dope test during a domestic match season. Yusuf Pathan suspended for the violation of WADA terms and conditions. BCCI in its statement said, “Mr Yusuf Pathan has been suspended for a doping violation. Mr Pathan had inadvertently ingested a prohibited substance, which can be commonly found in cough syrups.
“Mr Pathan had provided a urine sample as part of the BCCI’s anti-doping testing program during a domestic T-20 competition on 16th March 2017 in New Delhi. His sample was subsequently tested and found to contain Terbutaline. Terbutaline, a specified substance, is prohibited both In & Out of Competition in the WADA Prohibited List of Substances.
In Doping case, the BCCI has a zero-tolerance approach toward cricketers. According to the report, the BCCI provides a dedicated 24X7 Anti-Doping Helpline where the Cricketers and Cricket support personnel can contact for any drug queries.
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9. Kusal Perera: Match Fixing In Cricket
Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper-batsman Kusal Perera banned for four years after he failed a doping test. The Sri Lanka Cricket team shocked after his dope test results. Later in 2016, the ICC lifted the provisional suspension imposed on him.
8. Upul Tharanga: Match Fixing In Cricket
The 1st Srilankan cricketer Upul Tharanga banned under anti-doping norms of ICC. Tharanga uses to open the inning for Srilankan inning. 3-month ban imposed on him after he found guilty of taking banned drugs in 2011.
He found to have metabolism of two banned glucocorticosteroids – prednisone and prednisolone in his system during the 2011 World Cup. He had pleaded guilty and admitted to having taken some herbal remedy in order to ease the pain of a long-standing shoulder injury.
The anti-doping tribunal accepted that Tharanga “had no intention to enhance his sporting performance or to mask the use of another performance-enhancing substance, but that he had failed to satisfy the high levels of personal responsibility implicit upon him as an international cricketer subject to anti-doping rules.”
7. Mohammad Asif :
Pakistan’s emerging fast bowler has always been in the news for the wrong reasons, who made his life miserable for taking dope. Asif banned from all cricket formats in November 2006 after failing a drugs test. He failed the dope test and found to have a banned substance named nandrolone.
Asif and Shoaib Akhtar suspended in November 2006 for the 1st time. Later a mild ban imposed on him after PCB doctor confirmed that Asif stop taking drugs.
The right-arm medium pacer once again detained at the Dubai International Aiport in 2008 on suspicion of having possessed illegal drugs in his wallet. Soon after, the IPL committee revealed that he had tested positive for banned substances during the tournament.
6. Raza Hasan: Match Fixing In Cricket
Pakistani left-arm spinner Raza Hasan found guilty in dope test. PCB had very high hope after his debut match in 2012. He received ODI cap against New Zeeland in 2014. But something hidden on that time.
When Pakistani Cricket Board Conducted a Doping test then he failed in test. The sample collected from Hasan turned out positive for a banned substance. He suspended from all forms of cricket for a span of two years as per anti-doping rules.
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5. Abdur Rahman:
One more Pakistani spinner, Abdur Rehman, who has taken Pakistan into a storm against England in 2012, at the time of violation. Once Abdur Rahman ranked no 1 in Test cricket in 2012. He took 19 wickets at an average of 16.73. It was Pakistan’s first-ever series, whitewash against England in the history of the game.
He found to having smoked cannabis as a recreational drug while playing for Somerset in the English domestic circuit. After found guilty Abdur banned for 12 weeks by the ECB under its anti-doping rules.
Rehman pleaded and publicly apologised for his ‘error of judgment’ and promised to stay fit and focused during the following suspension period.
4. Ian Botham: Match Fixing In Cricket
Ian Botham during the interview of a Newspaper confessed to having smoked Cannabis in 1986. Botham banned for two months due to his banned activity.
Already a legendary figure in the English dressing room, Ian Botham never hesitated to lead a flamboyant life off the field. Succumbing to pressure from the media and popular opinion, the ECB suspended him for 63 days.
Botham returned to the international arena in style, first equaling and then breaking Dennis Lillee’s world record of most Test wickets – all within a span of 12 balls of his comeback at The Oval.
Legendary English all-rounder suspended for smoking cannabis in 1986. The cricketer-turned-commentator admitted the same during a newspaper interview. His confession suspended him for two months.
3. Shane Warne:
The Cricket legend Shane Warne sent back home a day before the 2003 World Cup began in South Africa. Shane Warne banned for a year from the game after he found positive in a drug test during an ODI series in Australia.
Undoubtedly the biggest (and the least surprising) name in this list, Shane Warne is among those legends without whom cricket would not have had the appeal that it has today.
Having served as one of the pillars of the invincible Australian side in the 2000s, Warne’s statistics in all forms of the game speak volumes about his calibre and status in cricket.
2. Stephen Fleming: Match Fixing In Cricket
Stephen Fleming considered as one of the finest guys in the Cricket world. He shocked the International cricket fraternity by indulging in banned activity. He found to have used Marijuana in the early 1990s. $175 fine imposed on him and he spelt out from all forms of Cricket for a limited time.
Although not guilty of abusing performance-enhancing drugs or masking agents. Fleming charged with smoking pot along with a few other Kiwi cricketers for recreational purposes.
1. Pradeep Sangwan
Kolkata Knight Rider, left-arm pacer Pradeep Sangwan had been in the news during India’s successful Under-19 World Cup campaign in 2008 after ticking all the right boxes. Returning to the domestic circuit, he represented Delhi for 38 first-class matches and took 123 wickets.
In October 2013 Sangwan found to have violated Article 2.1 of the BCCI Anti-Doping Code. He has taken prohibited anabolic steroid stanozolol and slapped with an 18-month ban.
