These Five Cricketers Careers Ended Due To Controversies: In the world of cricket, players often reach great heights in the game with their talent, but sometimes disputes outside the field or indiscipline towards the game end their brilliant cricket career. Similarly, some players ruined their good careers due to their own mistakes. Here we are going to tell about 5 such cricketers, who ruined their international careers due to match fixing or disputes with selectors and conflicts with their cricket board.

Those 5 cricketers whose career ended due to controversies

1. Mohammad Aamir – Controversy with match fixing and management

Former Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Aamir had to face jail sentence and a 5-year ban for deliberately bowling a no-ball in the Lord’s Test. After this, even after returning to cricket, Aamir was not able to maintain coordination with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), coach and management, after which he retired from international cricket alleging mental torture.

2. S. Sreesanth – Spot fixing became the reason

Former Indian fast bowler S Sreesanth has been an important member of the 2007 T-0 World Cup and 2011 ODI World Cup winning team, but his career completely changed after he got involved in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing case. The arrest by Delhi Police in this case and the lifetime ban imposed by BCCI ended his career at the peak. Although his ban was lifted by BCCI years later, by then Sreesanth had lost his rhythm and age.

3. Kevin Pietersen – War with the ECB

The career of Kevin Pietersen, one of England’s most talented batsmen, was full of controversies. In 2012, during the South Africa series, Pietersen was embroiled in controversy for sending derogatory messages to the opposition team about his own captain Andrew Strauss. After this, due to his bad relationship with the coach and the board, he was dropped from the team in the year 2014, after which Pietersen was not able to return to the team again.

4. Ambati Rayudu – Dispute with selectors

The international career of former Indian batsman Ambati Rayudu was more in the news for his anger and controversies than his talent. When he was not selected in the 2019 ODI World Cup team, he took a dig at selector MSK Prasad’s statement about ‘3D player’ and tweeted that he has ordered ‘3D glasses’ to watch the World Cup. Due to this estrangement and tension with the board, he hastily said goodbye to international cricket.

5. Andrew Symonds – Lack of discipline per game

The career of former Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds was in the news due to the Monkeygate controversy. After this, not coming to the team meeting, coming to practice drunk and violating the rules of the cricket board proved costly for him. His career was almost over after he was sent home due to lack of discipline before the T20 World Cup in 2009.

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Harbhajan singh controversies: The slapgate controversy of former India cricketer Harbhajan Singh has once again come into the discussion. IPL founder Lalit Modi shared a video of the controversy between Harbhajan and Sreesanth in 2008, in which Bhajji slapped Sreesanth after the IPL match. Bhajji not only got into this controversy during his cricket career, but he has also clashed with foreign players on the field. Let’s know about the five biggest controversies of Harbhajan Singh.

Harbhajan caught in the monkey dispute

When the Indian team visited Australia in 2008, Andrew Symonds accused Bhajji of making racial comments. Symonds said that Harbhajan called him Monkey (Monkey). In this case, the referee convicted Bhajji and he was banned for three matches. At the same time, after the ban on Harbhajan, Team India, who went on a tour of Australia under the captaincy of Anil Kumble, opposed playing the rest of the match and said that if the ban was not withdrawn from Bhajji, then the team would return to India after canceling the tour. This decision of Team India was also supported by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

The case of this dispute broke out between Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds reached the Sydney Court. In this, an appeal was made against the ban of three matches on Bhajji. The Sydney Court decided in favor of Harbhajan Singh and the court said that no such evidence has been found, which can be assumed that Harbhajan Singh has made any colorful remarks. With this, the ban of three matches was also removed from Bhajji. But instead he was fined 50 percent match fees.

Controversy with Ricky Ponting also

Harbhajan Singh joined Team India for the first time in 1998 at the age of 17. Bhajji was taken in the series against Australia. In this match being played in Sharjah, Harbhajan Singh stumped Ricky Ponting. After taking Ponting’s wicket, Harbhajan indicated him to go to the pavilion. Seeing this gesture of Harbhajan, Potting moved towards him, but then returned without saying anything. When Harbhajan Singh did this, he was banned for a match. Along with this, the ICC also imposed a fine.

Fight with Shoaib Akhtar

During the India-Pakistan match in Asia Cup 2010, there was a clash between Harbhajan Singh and Shoaib Akhtar. In the 47th over of this match, there was an argument between Bhajji and Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, after which Bhajji hit a six off Akhtar’s ball. India won this match by 3 wickets and the winning shot also came from the bat of Harbhajan Singh.

Sreesanth was slapped

In IPL 2008, Harbhajan Singh slapped Sreesanth. At that time Harbhajan used to play for Mumbai Indians and Sreesanth for Kings XI Punjab. Punjab defeated Mumbai in this match. Sreesanth once told the controversy that he had told Harbhajan that ‘Punjab will defeat Mumbai, Punjab will defeat Mumbai’. At the same time, after this match, Harbhajan hit Sreesanth a backhand slap and the video of this has now come in front of people after 17 years. Harbhajan Singh has told that he has apologized to Sreesanth several times for this incident.

Harbhajan advertised for liquor company

Harbhajan Singh was trapped in 2006 by advertising for a liquor company. In this advertisement, Bhajji did not even wear a turban, which was strongly opposed by the people of the Sikh community. Along with this, objected to advertising for the liquor company. After this advertisement, Harbhajan Singh was so criticized that he had to remove the advertisement. After this, this Indian cricketer apologized for hurting the feelings of the people.

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