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Cricket and drugs ... a short history

Evening Standard Last updated at 00:00am on 20.02.03

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1986: 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.