5 cricketers who showed effects of drunkenness on the cricket field

2) Andrew Symonds (Australia)

Andrew Symonds (middle) celebrates with a bottle of champagneafter Australia won the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003

Andrew Symonds was a very influential all-rounder and a hard hitter in its literal meaning. He had the ability to demolish any bowling attack into pieces. The Birmingham-born Australian cricketer was a handy off-spinner too and enjoyed a memorable ODI career, having played 198 matches, scoring 5088 runs which include 6 centuries. On top of that, the off-spinner clinched 133 wickets for the baggy greens.

Prior to Australia’s ODI match against Bangladesh back in 2005, Andrew Symonds was found to be drunk and also fell over at the training nets. Australian skipper Ricky Ponting was furious about the incident. The Tasmanian said, "Those warm-ups started with some gentle leg swings, but after four or five swings in the batting group, Symonds moved away from us and headed for the other set of players"

"He based himself on the edge of that group and leaned against a wheelie bin that was on the edge of the field. As he did so he fell over” he added.