List of cricketers banned for corruption
International cricket

List of cricketers banned for corruption

Section Title: International cricket
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Player	National team	Length of ban	Details	Reference

1	Saleem Malik	Pakistan	Life ban (Overturned in 2008)	Banned in 2000 for offering bribes. First cricketer to be banned for lifetime for corruption, and also first cricketer to be jailed.

2	Ata-ur-Rehman	Pakistan	Life ban (lifted in 2006)	Banned in 2000 for dealings with bookmakers.

3	Mohammad Azharuddin	India	Life ban (Overturned in 2012)	Alleged in 2000 for associating with bookmakers and for allegedly providing information to bookies and introducing Hansie Cronje to betting. On 8 November 2012, the life ban was overturned as the case was deemed unsustainable

4	Ajay Sharma	India	Life ban (later lifted by BCCI in 2014)	Found guilty in 2000 for associating with bookmakers.

5	Ajay Jadeja	India	5 years (Overturned in 2003)	Alleged to have associated with bookmakers.

6	Manoj Prabhakar	India	5 years	In 2000 he tried to implicate Kapil Dev and others, but it backfired as he was found guilty himself.

7	Hansie Cronje	South Africa	Life ban	Guilty of accepting monetary rewards from bookmakers for providing information and for fixing matches.

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.

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 10 overs, however got injured after bowling 11 legitimate deliveries and 6 wides, conceding 11 runs.

10	Maurice Odumbe	Kenya	5 years	Receiving money from bookmakers.

11	Marlon Samuels	West Indies	2 years	Passing on team information to an alleged bookmaker.

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.

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	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.

15	Danish Kaneria	Pakistan	Life ban	Arrested in 2010 by police investigating "match irregularities" whilst playing 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.

16	Sreesanth	India	Life ban	Gave 14 runs in an over as planned in an IPL match for Rajasthan Royals against Kings XI Punjab on 9 May 2013.

17	Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh	8 years (3 years suspended)	Banned for his involvement in fixing in the 2013 season of the Bangladesh Premier League season 2.

18	Shariful Haque	Bangladesh	Indefinite period	Banned in September 2012 for approaching players to fix matches in the Bangladesh Premier League

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.

20	Kaushal Lokuarachchi	Sri Lanka	18 months	Banned for failure to report an approach to fix a game in the Bangladesh Premier League.

21	Gulam Bodi	South Africa	20 years	Attempting to fix matches in the Ram Slam Twenty20 competition matches in South Africa.

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"

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.

24	Sharjeel Khan	Pakistan	5 years	Banned in August 2017 for spot-fixing charges in the Pakistan Super League.

25	Lonwabo Tsotsobe	South Africa	8 years	Banned in August 2015 over match fixing

26	Alviro Petersen	South Africa	2 years	Banned in 2016 over match fixing

Sentence(s)

Saleem Malik is the first of a number of international cricketers to be banned.

final_sentence: Saleem Malik is the first of a number of international cricketers to be banned.