Drug-tainted past: A list of doped cricketers

Drug abuse in cricket is not a novelty. Here is a rundown on all drug abuse-related cases in cricket over the last two decades.

1986: Ian Botham was suspended for smoking cannabis

1993: Wasim Akram, Mushtaq Ahmed and Waqar Younis were arrested in Grenada and charged with possession of marijuana. The charges were later dropped

1994: Stephen Fleming, Matthew Hart and Dion Nash were fined and suspended after admitting to smoking cannabis at a barbecue. Dion Nash was subsequently referred to as Dion Hash in the British press

1996: Ed Giddins, the Sussex cricketer, was handed a 19-month ban from first-class cricket for taking cocaine, towards the end of 1996 season

1997:
(a) Phil Tufnell was handed an 18 month suspended sentence and fined ₤1000 for failing to turn up for a random drug test after a Middlesex Championship match
(b) Retired Warwickshire allrounder Paul Smith admitted to long usage of cocaine and was controversially banned for 2 years.
(c) Keith Piper tested positive for cannabis. He was banned for one match and fined ₤500

2001: Herschelle Gibbs, Andre Nel, Justin Kemp, Paul Adams and Roger Telemachus were fined and reprimanded for smoking marijuana during South Africa's tour of the West Indies

2002-03: Shane Warne was sent home after failing a earlier drug test, just prior to the start of the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Warne was sent home after a drug test during the one-day series in Australia earlier in the year returned a positive result for a banned diuretic

2004: Warwickshire all-rounder Graham Wagg was banned for 15 months after admitting to cocaine use and he was also fired from his county club

2005:
(a) Dermot Reeve resigned from his role as Channel 4 commentator after he admitted to a cocaine use problem, also for confessing that he was high when commentating during the England v New Zealand Test at Lord's in 2004
(b) Keith Piper, who failed a drug test in 1997, failed his second drug test and was banned for the remainder of the season

2006: Mohammad Asif and Shoaib Akhtar were suspended by the PCB and were pulled out from the Champions Trophy after the pair failed drug tests for the performance-enhancing substance Nandrolone. The PCB handed down a two-year suspension to Shoaib Akhtar and a one-year suspension to Mohammad Asif, banning them from professional cricket for the duration.Both Akhtar and Asif appealed against the ban. Both were acquitted by a second tribunal appointed to review their drug ban appeal.

2007: Maninder Singh was arrested for possession of 1.5 grams of cocaine

2008: Mohammad Asif was detained in Dubai on suspicion of possessing drugs