A tiny minority of cricket players are drawn into malpractice but it’s the skilled ‘world-class’ offenders who make it difficult to defend the integrity of the game. This book celebrates the achievements of those players but also draws attention to the grey-areas of their careers, which often resulted in a life-ban or imprisonment. The bigger they come, the harder they fall, with all the added disgrace of lengthy police interrogation, days in the dock of the Old Bailey, and the anxiety and depression that comes with it all.

These are the guilty named and shamed