Kagiso rabada doping ban: South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada returned home after leaving the middle of 2025. It has now been revealed that his report came positive in the investigation of consuming cocaine. A South African media institution revealed that Rabada had consumed cocaine before the start of the SA20 League. Please tell that Rabada left IPL 2025 on April 3 and returned to his country. On May 5, it was announced that Rabada is going to return to the IPL after facing doping ban. Rabada is not the first cricketer who has been found guilty in drugs cases.

Vinod kambli

Indian cricketer Vinod Kambli’s career had hit a sharp bounce in the 1990s. He was becoming a well-known name in world cricket. Kambli himself has accepted that he had become accustomed to consuming cocaine, drugs, alcohol. Kambli played 17 Tests and 104 ODIs in his career. It is said that Kambli’s career was finished quickly due to being addicted to drugs.

Shoaib Akhtar

It was in the year 2006 when Shoaib Akhtar was caught consuming banned steroid Nandrolone. For this reason, he was banned for 2 years from playing cricket. He had refused to consume any drugs, but at the same time he also refused to conduct an inquiry again for fear of coming positive.

Wasim Akram

Another legendary Pakistan player Wasim Akram admitted in his autobiography that he had become addicted to drugs after retirement. Akram’s addiction to drugs touched when his first wife Huma died in 2009.

Apart from these, Shane Warne, Harshal Gibbs, Stephen Fleming and Andrew Symonds were also victims of excessive consumption of drugs or alcohol.

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