Cricket and drugs ... a short history
Evening Standard Last updated at 00:00am on 20.02.031986: Ian Botham admits in a newspaper interview to having smoked cannabis. Banned for two months of the English season.
1993: Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Aqib Javed and Mushtaq Ahmed are arrested during Pakistan's tour of the West Indies and charged with possession of cannabis. Charges later dropped.
1995: New Zealand's Matthew Hart, Stephen Fleming and Dion Nash banned for three games for cannabis use in South Africa.
1996: Ed Giddins banned for 20 months for taking cocaine.
1997: Phil Tufnell cleared by the team management of smoking cannabis on England tour of New Zealand. Later fined for failing to provide a sample after the final first-class match of the season.
2001: Duncan Spencer of Western Australia banned for 18 months for taking the anabolic steroid nandrolone for back pain.
2001: South Africa's Herschelle Gibbs, Andre Nel, Paul Adams, Roger Telemachus, Justin Kemp and physio Craig Smith are each fined 10,000 rand for smoking cannabis on tour in Antigua.



The film is full of cracking one-liners. Plus lots of silly dialogue that, for some reason, makes one glad to be alive

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