List of cricketers banned for match fixing

Below are a list of Test

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

and or One Day International cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

ers who have been banned by the governing body for cricket, the International Cricket Council

International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...

for match fixing

Match fixing

In organised sports, match fixing, game fixing, race fixing, or sports 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. Where the sporting competition in question is a race then the incident is referred to as...

or spot-fixing

Spot-fixing

Spot-fixing refers to illegal activity in a sport where a specific part of a game is fixed. Examples include something as minor as timing a no ball or wide delivery in cricket or timing the first throw-in or corner in association football. Spot-fixing attempts to defraud bookmakers illegally by...

. Both are misdemeanors banned under the ICC Cricket Code of Conduct

ICC Cricket Code of Conduct

The ICC Cricket Code of Conduct is a regulation regarding the conduct of professional players in the sport of cricket. Traditionally, cricket requires "gentlemanly" conduct from all players...

	Player	Length of ban	Details
1	Saleem Malik Saleem Malik Saleem Malik is a former Pakistani cricketer who played between 1981/82 and 1999, at one stage captaining the Pakistani cricket team. He was a right-handed wristy middle order batsman who was strong square of the wicket. His legbreak bowling was also quite effective...	Life ban (Overturned in 2008)	Banned in 2000 for offering bribes
2	Ata-ur-Rehman Ata-ur-Rehman Not to be confused with Prof. Atta ur RahmanAta-ur-Rehman is a Pakistani cricketer who played in 13 Tests and 30 ODIs from 1992 to 1996. He is tall and well built, bowling right-arm fast medium with a good control of line and length and the ability to move the old ball...	Life ban (Overturned in 2006)	Banned in 2000 for dealings with bookmakers
3	Mohammad Azharuddin Mohammad Azharuddin Mohammad Azharuddin also known as Azhar, is an Indian politician and former cricketer. He was an accomplished batsman and captained the Indian cricket team for much of the 1990s, until his involvement in a match-fixing scandal forced him into retirement...	Life ban	Declared guilty as per the BCCI. He rejects this and have taken the matter to court where it is currently sub-judice.
4	Ajay Sharma Ajay Sharma Ajay Kumar Sharma is a retired Indian cricketer.Sharma was a prolific run-maker in first-class cricket, mainly for Delhi, scoring over 10,000 runs at the high average of 67.46...	Life ban	Found guilty in 2000 for associating with bookmakers
5	Manoj Prabhakar Manoj Prabhakar Manoj Prabhakar is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and a lower-order batsman who also opened the innings sometimes for the Indian cricket team until his retirement in 1995–96. He was banned by the BCCI for his involvement in match fixing scandals...	5 year ban	In 2000 he tried to implicate Kapil Dev and others but it backfired as he was found guilty himself
6	Ajay Jadeja Ajay Jadeja Ajaysinhji Daulatsinhji Jadeja was born on 1 February 1971 in royal rajput family of Jamnagar, Gujarat. He was a regular in the Indian cricket team between 1992 and 2000, playing in 15 Test matches and 196 One Day Internationals. His cricketing achievements were overshadowed by a 5 year ban for...	5 year ban (Overturned in 2003)	Alleged to have associated with bookmakers
7	Hansie Cronje Hansie Cronje Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje was a South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s...	Life ban	Guilty of accepting monetary rewards from bookmakers. For Forecasting matches
8	Herschelle Gibbs Herschelle Gibbs Herschelle Herman Gibbs is a South African cricketer, more specifically a batsman.Gibbs was schooled at St Joseph's Marist College and then Diocesan College in Rondebosch...	6 months	Initially agreed to underperform in an ODI game at Nagpur, but reneged on the deal and scored 74 off just 53 balls
9	Henry Williams Henry Williams (cricketer) Henry Smith Williams , is a retired South African cricketer. He played seven One Day Internationals for South Africa but no Tests. Williams was a right arm seam bowler and after retiring he became the bowling coach at Boland....	6 months	Initially agreed to underperform in an ODI game at Nagpur
10	Maurice Odumbe Maurice Odumbe Maurice Omondi Odumbe is a Kenyan cricketer who was suspended from cricket in August 2004 after being found guilty of receiving money from bookmakers....	5 years	Receiving money from bookmakers
11	Marlon Samuels Marlon Samuels Marlon Nathaniel Samuels is a West Indian cricketer. Samuels made his Test debut in Australia in 2000, and his One Day International debut against Sri Lanka in Nairobi during the ICC Knockout Trophy in the same year....	2 years	Receiving money, benefit or other reward which could bring him or the game into disrepute
12	Mohammad Amir	5 years	Bowling deliberate 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	7 years (2 years suspended)	Bowling deliberate 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 Salman Butt Salman Butt is a former Pakistani cricketer who was a regular Test and ODI left-handed opening batsman. He made his Test debut on 3 September 2003 in the third Test against Bangladesh, and a year later made his ODI debut against West Indies on 22 September 2004. He was appointed captain of the...	10 years (5 years suspended)	Orchestrating the bowling of deliberate 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.

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