Tuesday, February 26, 2008

List of cricket incidents cont..

1955
Leslie Hylton is hanged for shooting his wife.
1967
Roy Gilchrist got involved in an argument with his wife during which time he branded her face with a hot iron. He was found guilty and sentenced to three months probation.
1986
Ian Botham is charged in Australia with assaulting a passenger on the flight to Perth. He was bailed and fined £400 .
1988
Navjot Singh Sidhu beat a man to death following a road rage incident. In 2006 he was sentenced to three years in prison for 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder'.
1993
Wasim Akram, Mushtaq Ahmed and Waqar Younis are arrested in Grenada and charged with possession of marijuana. The charges were later dropped.
1994
Stephen Fleming, Matthew Hart and Dion Nash are fined and suspended after admitting to smoking cannabis at a barbecue.
1996
Geoffrey Boycott assaults a 45 year old woman in France for which he received a three month suspended sentence in 1998.
1998
Saqlain Mushtaq and Mohammad Akram were alleged to have been involved in a bar brawl during Pakistan's tour of South Africa.

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