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Below are a list of Testand or One Day International cricketers who have been banned by the governing body for cricket, the International Cricket Council, or their respective national cricket boards for match fixing or spot-fixing. Both are misdemeanors banned under the ICC Cricket Code of Conduct.

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 Get Jailed. [1]
2 Ata-ur-Rehman  Pakistan Life ban
(Overturned in 2006)		 Banned in 2000 for dealings with bookmakers [2]
3 Mohammad Azharuddin  India Life ban
(Overturned in 2012)		 Declared guilty as per the BCCI. He rejects this and has taken the matter to court where it is currently sub-judice. [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 Ajay Jadeja  India 5 years
(Overturned in 2003)		 Alleged to have associated with bookmakers [5]
6 Hansie Cronje  South Africa Life ban Guilty of accepting monetary rewards from bookmakers. For Forecasting matches [6]
7 Herschelle Gibbs  South Africa 6 months Initially agreed to underperform in an ODI game at Nagpur, but reneged on the deal and scored 74 off just 53 balls [7]
8 Henry Williams  South Africa 6 months Initially agreed to underperform 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. [8]
9 Maurice Odumbe  Kenya 5 years Receiving money from bookmakers [9]
10 Marlon Samuels  West Indies 2 years Passing on team information to an alleged bookmaker [10]
11 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.[11] [12]
12 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.[13] [14]
13 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] [16]

Below are a list of First-class cricketers who have been banned by the governing body for cricket, the International Cricket Council, or their respective national cricket boards for match fixing or spot-fixing. Both are misdemeanors banned under the ICC Cricket Code of Conduct.

Player National team Length of ban Details Reference
1 Mervyn Westfield  Essex 5 years Match fixing [17][18]
2 Danish Kaneria  Pakistan Essex Life ban Match fixing [19]
3 TP Sudhindra DCDeccan Chargers Life ban "Receiving a consideration to spot-fix" in a domestic game [20]
4 Mohnish Mishra DCDeccan Chargers 1 year Bringing the game into disrepute through "loose talk and unsubstantiated bragging" [20]
5 Amit Yadav KXIPKings XI Punjab 1 year spot fixing and match fixing [20]
6 Abhinav Bali KXIPKings XI Punjab 1 year spot fixing and match fixing [20]
7 Shalabh Srivastava KXIPKings XI Punjab 5 years Agreeing to and negotiating terms to fix a match [20]
8 Shariful Haque  Bangladesh Dhaka Gladiators Indefinite period Spot fixing [21][22]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Player Profile: Saleem Malik". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  2. ^ "Player Profile: Ata-ur-Rehman". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  3. ^ "Player Profile: Mohammad Azharuddin". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  4. ^ "Player Profile: Manoj Prabhakar". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  5. ^ "Player Profile: Ajay Jadeja". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  6. ^ "Player Profile: Hansie Cronje". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  7. ^ "Player Profile: Herschelle Gibbs". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  8. ^ "Player Profile: Henry Williams". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  9. ^ "Player Profile: Maurice Odumbe". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  10. ^ "Samuels found guilty of violating ICC Code". Retrieved 2013-01-07. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ "Salman Butt and Pakistan bowlers jailed for no-ball plot". BBC News. 2011-11-03.
  12. ^ "Player Profile: Mohammad Amir". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  13. ^ "Salman Butt and Pakistan bowlers jailed for no-ball plot". BBC News. 2011-11-03.
  14. ^ "Player Profile: Mohammad Asif". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  15. ^ "Salman Butt and Pakistan bowlers jailed for no-ball plot". BBC News. 2011-11-03.
  16. ^ "Player Profile: Salman Butt". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  17. ^ "Kaneria banned for life by ECB". Cricinfo. 2012-06-22.
  18. ^ "Player Profile: Mervyn Westfield". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
  19. ^ "PCB bars Kaneria from all cricket till result of appeal". Retrieved 2013-01-07. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ a b c d e "BCCI bans 5 Indian players". Retrieved 2013-01-07. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  21. ^ "Player Profile: Shariful Haque". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2012-04-09.
  22. ^ "Bangladesh player banned for spot-fixing". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2012-04-09.

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