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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Babar Azam is the highest run-scorer in the history of international T20 cricket. But when it comes to strike rate, Babar is counted among the worst T20 batsmen. If we look at the entire history of T20 World Cup, Babar is the player batting with the worst strike rate. His strike rate in the World Cup is only 112.33. Now the situation is such that former Pakistani cricketer has been seen insulting Babar Azam on live TV.

Let us tell you that there is going to be a big clash between India and Pakistan on 15 February in the 2026 T20 World Cup. Regarding this, former Pakistani cricketers Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Aamir and Rashid Latif made different and unique claims and insulted Babar Azam in their conversations.

Gross insult to Babar Azam

While discussing a Pakistani show, Ahmed Shehzad first said that if Babar Azam plays a match-winning innings against India, then the entire crowd present in the show will get free food from him. Whereas Rashid Latif clearly said that Babar is not able to bat for such a long time anyway.

So I’ll take retirement back

The host of the show placed a condition and said that if Babar Azam played a match-winning inning against India with a strike rate of 160 or more, then Aamir would take out his retirement. However, Aamir changed this condition and said that scoring 8 runs in 2 balls, such an innings with a strike rate of 400 will not be considered.

In the end, Mohammad Aamir also agreed that if Babar Azam plays a match-winning innings by scoring fifty plus runs at a strike rate of more than 150 on 15th February, then he will consider taking back retirement. Let us tell you that Aamir retired again in December 2024, before that he had announced retirement in 2020, but came back for the 2024 T20 World Cup.

Ex Pakistan Cricketers on Babar Azam

– Shehzad: Will host dinner if he plays a match winning knock vs India on Sunday.

– Amir: Says he will come out of retirement.

– Rashid Latif: He doesn’t bat that long anyway.

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— Shah (@Shahhoon1) February 11, 2026

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