List of cricketers banned for corruption

In cricket, match fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law. In particular, players have been approached by bookmakers and bribed to throw matches or aspects of matches (such as the toss), or provide other essential information. Fixing has happened in both international - including Test matches and One Day Internationals - and domestic cricket. The ban is issued by the International Cricket Council (ICC), the sport's governing body, or by the respective cricket board(s) to which the player belongs. A ban may be for match fixinours banned under the ICC Cricket Code of Conduct.

International cricket

	Player	National team	Length of ban	Details	Reference
1	Mohammed Azharuddin	India	Life ban	Found guilty in 2000 for associating with bookmakers and allegedly provided information to bookies and introduced Hansie Cronje to betting.	[1]
2	Ajay Sharma	India	Life ban (later lifted by BCCI in 2014)	Found guilty in 2000 for associating with bookmakers.	[2]
3	Ajay Jadeja	India	5 years (Overturned in 2003)	Alleged to have associated with bookmakers.	[3]
4	Manoj Prabhakar	India	5 years	In 2000 he tried to implicate Kapil Dev and others but it backfired as he was found guilty himself.	[4]
5	Ata-ur-Rehman	Pakistan	Life ban (lifted in 2006)	Banned in 2000 for dealings with bookmakers.	[5]
6	Saleem Malik	Pakistan	Life ban (Overturned in 2008)	Banned in 2000 for offering bribes. First cricketer to get jailed.	[6]
7	Hansie Cronje	South Africa	Life ban	Guilty of accepting monetary rewards from bookmakers for forecasting matches.	[7]
8	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa	6 months	Initially agreed to under-perform in an ODI game at Nagpur, but reneged on the deal and scored 74 off just 53 balls.	[8]
9	Henry Williams	South Africa	6 months	Initially agreed to under-perform in an ODI game at Nagpur by conceding more than 50 runs off of 10 overs, however got injured after bowling 11 legitimate deliveries and 6 wides, conceding 11 runs.	[9]
10	Maurice Odumbe	Kenya	5 years	Receiving money from bookmakers.	[10]
11	Marlon Samuels	West Indies	2 years	Passing on team information to an alleged bookmaker.	[11]
12	Mohammad Amir	Pakistan	5 years	Bowling planned no-balls against England in August 2010. In November 2011 he was sentenced to six months in a young offenders institution by Southwark Crown Court, England, for conspiracy to cheat at gambling and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments.[12]	[13]
13	Mohammad Asif	Pakistan	7 years (2 years suspended)	Bowling planned no-balls against England in August 2010. In November 2011 he was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Southwark Crown Court, England, for conspiracy to cheat at gambling and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments.[14]	[15]
14	Salman Butt	Pakistan	10 years (5 years suspended)	Orchestrating the bowling of no-balls against England in August 2010. In November 2011 he was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison by Southwark Crown Court, England, for conspiracy to cheat at gambling and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments.[16]	[17]
15	Danish Kaneria	Pakistan	Life ban	Arrested in 2010 by police investigating "match irregularities" whilst playing in for Essex, but was cleared of allegations. However, he was found guilty by an England and Wales Cricket Board disciplinary panel and banned for life, a decision which the Pakistan Cricket Board agree to abide to. Kaneria appealed the decision in 2013 but the ban was upheld.	[18]
16	Sreesanth	India	Life ban{Acquitted from spot fixing in July 2015}	Gave 14 runs in an over as planned in an IPL match for Rajasthan Royals against Kings XI Punjab on 9 May 2013.[19] He was arrested on 16 May 2013 for accepting money from bookies to underperform, but was released on bail a month later.[20]	[21]
17	Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh	8 years (3 years suspended)	Banned for his involvement in fixing in the 2013 season of the Bangladesh Premier League.	[22]
18	Shariful Haque	Bangladesh	Indefinite period	Banned in September 2012 for approaching players to fix matches in the Bangladesh Premier League	[23]
19	Lou Vincent	New Zealand	Life ban	Initially banned for failure to report an approach to fix a game in the Bangladesh Premier League for 3 years but was then banned for life after match fixing in English Domestic Cricket.	[24]
20	Kaushal Lokuarachchi	Sri Lanka	18 months	Banned for failure to report an approach to fix a game in the Bangladesh Premier League.	[25]
21	Gulam Bodi	South Africa	20 years	Attempting to fix matches in the Ram Slam Twenty20 competition matches in South Africa.	[26]
22	Irfan Ahmed	Hong Kong	30 months	Banned in April 2016 for failure to disclose "full details of approaches or invitations to engage in corrupt conduct that had been made to him between January 2012 and January 2014"	[27]
23	Thami Tsolekile	South Africa	12 years	Banned in August 2016 for "contriving to fix" in the 2015 Ram Slam, and failing to disclose the full details of an approach.	[28]

First-class cricket

	Player	Domestic team	Length of ban	Details	Reference
1	Mervyn Westfield	Essex	5 years	Arrested in 2010 by police investigating "match irregularities" whilst playing in for Essex. He was convicted of conspiracy to defraud as part of a spot fixing scam and received a four-month prison sentence.	[29][30]
2	TP Sudhindra	Deccan Chargers	Life ban	"Receiving a consideration to spot-fix" in a domestic game.	[31]
3	Mohnish Mishra	Deccan Chargers	1 year	Bringing the game into disrepute through "loose talk and unsubstantiated bragging".	[31]
4	Amit Yadav	Kings XI Punjab	1 year	Spot fixing and match fixing.	[31]
5	Abhinav Bali	Kings XI Punjab	1 year	Spot fixing and match fixing.	[31]
6	Shalabh Srivastava	Kings XI Punjab	5 years	Agreeing to and negotiating terms to fix a match.	[31]
7	Ankeet Chavan	Rajasthan Royals	Life ban	Spot fixing.	[32]
8	Amit Singh	Rajasthan Royals	5 years	Acted as a middleman between the bookies and the Rajasthan Royals cricketers.[33]	[32]
9	Siddharth Trivedi	Rajasthan Royals	1 year	Failed to report that bookies approached him, even though he had no involvement in match fixing or spot fixing.[34]	[32]
10	Naved Arif	Sussex	Life ban	Banned for life after admitting to breaching the board's Anti-Corruption Code regarding corrupt activity in connection with the CB40 fixture between Sussex and Kent at Hove in August 2011	[35]
11	Ajit Chandila	Rajasthan Royals	Life ban	Spot fixing	[36]
12	Hiken Shah	Mumbai	5-years	Illegal approach	[37]
13	Ethy Mbhalati	Titans	10-years	Spot Fixing	[38]
14	Jean Symes	Highveld Lions	7-years	Failing to report a payment	[39]
15	Pumelela Matshikwe	Highveld Lions	10-years	Spot Fixing	[40]

See also

• John the bookmaker controversy
• Pakistan cricket spot-fixing controversy
• Betting controversies in cricket

References

1. "Player Profile: Mohammad Azharuddin". Rediff. Retrieved 2005-11-01.
2. "Player Profile: Ajay Sharma". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
3. "Player Profile: Ajay Jadeja". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
4. "Player Profile: Manoj Prabhakar". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
5. "Player Profile: Ata-ur-Rehman". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
6. "Player Profile: Saleem Malik". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
7. "Player Profile: Hansie Cronje". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
8. "Player Profile: Herschelle Gibbs". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
9. "Player Profile: Henry Williams". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
10. "Player Profile: Maurice Odumbe". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
11. "Samuels found guilty of violating ICC Code". Retrieved 2013-01-07.
12. "Salman Butt and Pakistan bowlers jailed for no-ball plot". BBC News. 2011-11-03.
13. "Player Profile: Mohammad Amir". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
14. "Salman Butt and Pakistan bowlers jailed for no-ball plot". BBC News. 2011-11-03.
15. "Player Profile: Mohammad Asif". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
16. "Salman Butt and Pakistan bowlers jailed for no-ball plot". BBC News. 2011-11-03.
17. "Player Profile: Salman Butt". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
18. "PCB bars Kaneria from all cricket till result of appeal". Retrieved 2013-01-07.
19. My confession to police was under duress: Sreesanth
20. Sreesanth, Chavan released from jail
21. "Sreesanth: Former India bowler banned for life for spot-fixing". BBC.
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23. Herald Sun http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/cricket/bangladesh-spinner-shariful-haque-banned-for-spot-fixing/story-e6frfg8o-1226465202270. Retrieved 21 April 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
24. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/story/756729.html. Retrieved 1 July 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
25. Cricinfo http://www.espncricinfo.com/bangladesh/content/current/story/753529.html. Retrieved 18 June 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
26. "Gulam Bodi banned for 20 years for Ram Slam match-fixing attempts". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
27. Cricinfo http://www.espncricinfo.com/hkg/content/story/1000865.html. Retrieved 21 April 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
29. "Kaneria banned for life by ECB". Cricinfo. 2012-06-22.
30. "Player Profile: Mervyn Westfield". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
31. "BCCI bans 5 Indian players". Retrieved 2013-01-07.
32. IPL 6 spot-fixing: S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan banned for life by BCCI
33. Bookies used Rajasthan Royals' pacer Amit Singh to fix deals, say cops
34. India cricketers Sreesanth, Chavan banned for life for fixing
35. ECB ban Naved Arif for life
36. Chandila banned for life, Hiken Shah for five years
37. Chandila banned for life, Hiken Shah for five years

External links

• ICC Anti-Corruption Code
• BBC article on match fixing
• Transcript of BBC Panorama programme on match fixing in 2001