5 times players who were banned for strange reasons

#3 Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev missed only one match out of the 132 Test matches that India played while he was active in the sport, in the 1993-94 season. Well, the only match he missed was due to a one-match ban handed to him after he tried to score too fast in the previous match.

(I know bizarre is an understatement here.)

In the second match against England, he walked in to bat when India was a little short of hundred in the second innings. He decided to unleash his beast mode. Unfortunately, his attitude was about to invite a lot of trouble for him.

The second ball that he faced, kissed his bat and went flying across the boundary. The next ball sent him back to the pavilion.

This was enough to agitate the team management who blamed his approach for the eventual loss of his team in that encounter. Hence, Dev was barred from the next match.

Later, in his autobiography, India's greatest all-rounder mentioned that he missed one match that season in order to prove an 'obscure point about discipline'.