The who's who of drug cheats in cricket

SHAME LIST: Several cricketers have been caught using performance enhancing drugs.

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New Delhi: Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif's detention in Dubai for allegedly carrying drugs is not the first time the lanky pacer has found himself in a drug-related controversy. It is not even the first time cricketers have been found to be involved with drugs.

Asif along with Shoaib Akhtar had tested positive for the banned steroid Nandrolone on October 16, 2006, just before the ICC Champions Trophy in India and was withdrawn from the tournament by the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Several other cricketers have also been caught using performance enhancing drugs.

• Ian Botham: Suspended for smoking cannabis in 1986.

• Wasim Akram, Mushtaq Ahmed and Waqar Younis: Charged with possession of marijuana in 1993.

• Stephen Fleming , Matthew Hart and Dion Nash were fined and suspended for smoking cannabis in 1994

• Phil Tufnell was suspended and fined for failing to turn up for a drug test in 1997.

• Paul Smit was banned for two years for usage of cocaine in 1997.

• Keith Piper was banned and fined after testing positive for cannabis in 1997.

• Ed Giddins was caught taking cocaine in 1999.

• Herschelle Gibbs, Andre Nel, Justin Kemp, Paul Adams and Roger Telemachus were Fined for smoking marijuana during South Africa's tour of West Indies in 2001.

• Shane Warne was banned for a year after diuretic was detected before 2003 World Cup.

• Graham Wagg was banned for 15 months after admitting to cocaine use in 2004.