Five Cricket Players Who Were Once Banned

#1 - Mohammed Amir

Mohammed Amir, the Pakistan fast bowler, was implicated in the infamous match-fixing saga of 2010 involving the Pakistan Cricket Team on their tour of England. Amir was convicted along with senior cricketers Mohammed Asif and the then captain of the Pakistan team Salman Butt. Members of the media had gathered proof that Amir had agreed to deliberately bowl no-balls in test matches in exchange for payment from a betting syndicate. Eventually, the authorities got involved, and Amir received a five-year ban from all forms of cricket from the ICC.

Since his return to international cricket, Amir has performed reasonably well and is a regular fixture in the Pakistan side across formats. Given the fact that he was only seventeen years old at the time of the scandal, the cricket fraternity seems to have forgiven Mohammed Amir for his past mistakes and has embraced him with open arms.