The fans of cricket are so invested in their favourite sport that they worship their favourite cricketers. A cricketer, who becomes a hero for his nation, is no inferior to god for a very brief moment. But above all, cricketers are humans too. Like in every other profession, we have had quite a few cricketers who were caught red-handed for their malicious practices.

Match fixing is a very common criminal offence in cricket. We have seen reputed cricketers like S Sreesanth and Salman Butt getting involved in it, while there are cricketers like Chris Lewis who were convicted in drug smuggling. But perhaps sexual crime is the most disgusting thing a cricketer can commit, and unfortunately, we’ve had such incidents the past.

Let us have a look at 5 cricketers who are alleged sex offenders:

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-402304" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Lorrie-Wilmot.jpg" alt="Lorrie Wilmot" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-402304" class="wp-caption-text">Lorrie Wilmot. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption>

It will be fitting if we start this list with a very shocking story. South Africa’s Lorrie Wilmot was one of the biggest hitters the country possessed at that time. It has been reported that he once hit <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/world-cup-2019-daniel-vettori-asks-new-zealand-not-to-panic-after-two-defeats-on-a-trot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>New Zealand</strong></a> spinner John Sparling for a six that went 120 metres. Though he didn’t get a national cap, he was still a celebrated player in the domestic circuit, having played 147 first-class games.

But his life turned upside down when the paedophile side of him was revealed. It was found that Wilmot had raped a 13-year-old girl. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. To make things worse, he was also suffering from an incurable disease.

Wilmot found it extremely difficult to cope up with all this, and in 2004, he committed suicide by shooting himself at his farm.

<a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2019/04/Alex-Hepburn.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-332319" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Alex-Hepburn.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" alt="Alex Hepburn" width="640" height="400"></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Alex Hepburn. (Photo Source: Dailymail)</figcaption>

Let us now focus on a very recent event. Budding English cricketer <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/alex-hepburns-rape-victim-shares-her-side-of-story-on-the-horrific-incident/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Alex Hepburn</strong></a>‘s career was just blossoming. Playing for Worcestershire, he had just played 5 T20s and a couple of List A games, but that’s when things got worse. Hardly three and a half months after his T20 debut, Hepburn was charged with two counts of rape.

It was found that Hepburn took advantage of a sleeping woman and raped her. A month ago, the 23-year-old was sentenced to five months in prison. Instead of practising his shots at the Blackfinch New Road, Hepburn spends his days now at the HM Prison Littlehey.

He has been jailed for five years for raping a sleeping woman who earlier thought that she was sleeping with Joe Clarke, Hepburn&#8217;s the then teammate.

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-402307" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Peter-Roebuck.jpg" alt="Peter Roebuck" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-402307" class="wp-caption-text">Peter Roebuck. (Photo by Patrick Eagar/Popperfoto via Getty Images)</figcaption>

One might think that when gifted players from an underprivileged background make it big, they lose their mind. But Peter Roebuck, the former English cricketer, was born to a mathematics teacher and an economics teacher. He studied law at the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s most prestigious universities. He was also a philanthropist.

He started the Learning for a Better World Trust which helped budding cricketers from developing nations complete their education. The Oxford-born cricketer had played over 600 domestic games. His case is a bit strange. He was in South Africa to report on a Test match between the Proteas and the Aussies for ABC and The Sydney Morning Herald.

The <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/csa-announce-south-africa-a-squads-for-india-tour-appoint-aiden-markram-and-temba-bavuma-captains/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>South African</strong></a> Police reportedly entered the hotel to speak about the sexual assault of a 26-year-old Zimbabwean man. He asked the police to leave him alone in order to change his clothes. He jumped off from the sixth floor and took his own life. This occurrence surprised many as Roebuck had a good reputation.

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-402314" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Uday-Joshi.jpg" alt="Uday Joshi" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-402314" class="wp-caption-text">Uday Joshi. (Photo by Stanley Sherman/Daily Express/Getty Images)</figcaption>

Unfortunately, we have an Indian on this list. At his prime, Uday Joshi was an important off-spinner for his domestic teams. He has played for Gujarat, his birthplace, and also for Railways and Saurashtra. He later went to <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/world-cup-2019-here-is-how-pakistan-bangladesh-sri-lanka-and-england-can-still-qualify-for-the-semi-finals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>England</strong></a> to ply his trade for Sussex. Joshi picked up 557 wickets in 186 matches. His Wikipedia page reads that he almost made it to the Indian team.

Just like Wilmot, Joshi was a paedophile. He was found guilty of sexually molesting a 13-year-old in August 1979. But the verdict came out just 7 years ago. Joshi faced six years in prison. However, like Roebuck’s case, this verdict surprised many as Joshi was respected amongst his peers.

Many former English cricketers like Tony Greig and Jim Parks have claimed that Joshi is an innocent human being and that he was wrongfully charged.

<a href="https://sportsguru.com/skillup-uploads/news-images/CT_353188.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-232370" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/CT_353188.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" alt="Rubel Hossain" width="640" height="400"></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Rubel Hossain of Bangladesh. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption>

We finally have a player who is a renowned face in the international circuit. Rubel Hossain, who has led Bangladesh’s pace department for many years in the past, was once accused of committing rape. A popular Bangladeshi actress, Nazneen Akter Happy claimed that the pacer promised to marry her and used his promise to have sex with her. That amounts to rape in his country.

He was put in custody for three days, but with the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 coming up, was granted bail. Hossain’s case was that of solving his personal problems with professional performances, as his inspirational spell against England forced Dulal Dey, Happy’s lawyer, to drop the case.

He said that he was extremely ‘happy’ at the glory the lad from Khulna had brought to his country and felt that he must feel no pressure.

<p>The fans of cricket are so invested in their favourite sport that they worship their favourite cricketers. A cricketer, who becomes a hero for his nation, is no inferior to god for a very brief moment. But above all, cricketers are humans too. Like in every other profession, we have had quite a few cricketers who were caught red-handed for their malicious practices.</p>
<p>Match fixing is a very common criminal offence in cricket. We have seen reputed cricketers like S Sreesanth and Salman Butt getting involved in it, while there are cricketers like Chris Lewis who were convicted in drug smuggling. But perhaps sexual crime is the most disgusting thing a cricketer can commit, and unfortunately, we’ve had such incidents the past.</p>
<h3>Let us have a look at 5 cricketers who are alleged sex offenders:</h3>
<h3>5. Lorrie Wilmot – South Africa</h3>
<figure id="attachment_402304" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-402304" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-402304" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Lorrie-Wilmot.jpg" alt="Lorrie Wilmot" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-402304" class="wp-caption-text">Lorrie Wilmot. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>It will be fitting if we start this list with a very shocking story. South Africa’s Lorrie Wilmot was one of the biggest hitters the country possessed at that time. It has been reported that he once hit <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/world-cup-2019-daniel-vettori-asks-new-zealand-not-to-panic-after-two-defeats-on-a-trot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>New Zealand</strong></a> spinner John Sparling for a six that went 120 metres. Though he didn’t get a national cap, he was still a celebrated player in the domestic circuit, having played 147 first-class games.</p>
<p>But his life turned upside down when the paedophile side of him was revealed. It was found that Wilmot had raped a 13-year-old girl. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. To make things worse, he was also suffering from an incurable disease.</p>
<p>Wilmot found it extremely difficult to cope up with all this, and in 2004, he committed suicide by shooting himself at his farm.</p>
<h3>4. Alex Hepburn – England</h3>
<figure id="attachment_332319" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2019/04/Alex-Hepburn.jpg"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-332319" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Alex-Hepburn.jpg" alt="Alex Hepburn" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Alex Hepburn. (Photo Source: Dailymail)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Let us now focus on a very recent event. Budding English cricketer <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/alex-hepburns-rape-victim-shares-her-side-of-story-on-the-horrific-incident/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Alex Hepburn</strong></a>‘s career was just blossoming. Playing for Worcestershire, he had just played 5 T20s and a couple of List A games, but that’s when things got worse. Hardly three and a half months after his T20 debut, Hepburn was charged with two counts of rape.</p>
<p>It was found that Hepburn took advantage of a sleeping woman and raped her. A month ago, the 23-year-old was sentenced to five months in prison. Instead of practising his shots at the Blackfinch New Road, Hepburn spends his days now at the HM Prison Littlehey.</p>
<p>He has been jailed for five years for raping a sleeping woman who earlier thought that she was sleeping with Joe Clarke, Hepburn’s the then teammate.</p>
<p></p>
<h3>3. Peter Roebuck – England</h3>
<figure id="attachment_402307" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-402307" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-402307" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Peter-Roebuck.jpg" alt="Peter Roebuck" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-402307" class="wp-caption-text">Peter Roebuck. (Photo by Patrick Eagar/Popperfoto via Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>One might think that when gifted players from an underprivileged background make it big, they lose their mind. But Peter Roebuck, the former English cricketer, was born to a mathematics teacher and an economics teacher. He studied law at the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s most prestigious universities. He was also a philanthropist.</p>
<p>He started the&nbsp;Learning for a Better World Trust which helped budding cricketers from developing nations complete their education. The Oxford-born cricketer had played over 600 domestic games. His case is a bit strange. He was in South Africa to report on a Test match between the Proteas and the Aussies for ABC and The Sydney Morning Herald.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/csa-announce-south-africa-a-squads-for-india-tour-appoint-aiden-markram-and-temba-bavuma-captains/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>South African</strong></a> Police reportedly entered the hotel to speak about the sexual assault of a 26-year-old Zimbabwean man. He asked the police to leave him alone in order to change his clothes. He jumped off from the sixth floor and took his own life. This occurrence surprised many as Roebuck had a good reputation.</p>
<h3>2. Uday Joshi – Indian-American</h3>
<figure id="attachment_402314" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-402314" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-402314" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Uday-Joshi.jpg" alt="Uday Joshi" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-402314" class="wp-caption-text">Uday Joshi. (Photo by Stanley Sherman/Daily Express/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Unfortunately, we have an Indian on this list. At his prime, Uday Joshi was an important off-spinner for his domestic teams. He has played for Gujarat, his birthplace, and also for Railways and Saurashtra. He later went to <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/world-cup-2019-here-is-how-pakistan-bangladesh-sri-lanka-and-england-can-still-qualify-for-the-semi-finals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>England</strong></a> to ply his trade for Sussex. Joshi picked up 557 wickets in 186 matches. His Wikipedia page reads that he almost made it to the Indian team.</p>
<p>Just like Wilmot, Joshi was a paedophile. He was found guilty of sexually molesting a 13-year-old in August 1979. But the verdict came out just 7 years ago. Joshi faced six years in prison. However, like Roebuck’s case, this verdict surprised many as Joshi was respected amongst his peers.</p>
<p>Many former English cricketers like Tony Greig and Jim Parks have claimed that Joshi is an innocent human being and that he was wrongfully charged.</p>
<h3>1. Rubel Hossain – Bangladesh</h3>
<figure id="attachment_232370" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><a href="https://sportsguru.com/skillup-uploads/news-images/CT_353188.jpg"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-232370" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/CT_353188.jpg" alt="Rubel Hossain" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Rubel Hossain of Bangladesh. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>We finally have a player who is a renowned face in the international circuit. Rubel Hossain, who has led Bangladesh’s pace department for many years in the past, was once accused of committing rape. A popular Bangladeshi actress, Nazneen Akter Happy claimed that the pacer promised to marry her and used his promise to have sex with her. That amounts to rape in his country.</p>
<p>He was put in custody for three days, but with the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 coming up, was granted bail. Hossain’s case was that of solving his personal problems with professional performances, as his inspirational spell against England forced Dulal Dey, Happy’s lawyer, to drop the case.</p>
<p>He said that he was extremely ‘happy’ at the glory the lad from Khulna had brought to his country and felt that he must feel no pressure.</p>

<p>The fans of cricket are so invested in their favourite sport that they worship their favourite cricketers. A cricketer, who becomes a hero for his nation, is no inferior to god for a very brief moment. But above all, cricketers are humans too. Like in every other profession, we have had quite a few cricketers who were caught red-handed for their malicious practices.</p>
<p>Match fixing is a very common criminal offence in cricket. We have seen reputed cricketers like S Sreesanth and Salman Butt getting involved in it, while there are cricketers like Chris Lewis who were convicted in drug smuggling. But perhaps sexual crime is the most disgusting thing a cricketer can commit, and unfortunately, we’ve had such incidents the past.</p>
<h3>Let us have a look at 5 cricketers who are alleged sex offenders:</h3>
<h3>5. Lorrie Wilmot – South Africa</h3>
<figure id="attachment_402304" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-402304" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-402304" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Lorrie-Wilmot.jpg" alt="Lorrie Wilmot" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-402304" class="wp-caption-text">Lorrie Wilmot. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>It will be fitting if we start this list with a very shocking story. South Africa’s Lorrie Wilmot was one of the biggest hitters the country possessed at that time. It has been reported that he once hit <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/world-cup-2019-daniel-vettori-asks-new-zealand-not-to-panic-after-two-defeats-on-a-trot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>New Zealand</strong></a> spinner John Sparling for a six that went 120 metres. Though he didn’t get a national cap, he was still a celebrated player in the domestic circuit, having played 147 first-class games.</p>
<p>But his life turned upside down when the paedophile side of him was revealed. It was found that Wilmot had raped a 13-year-old girl. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. To make things worse, he was also suffering from an incurable disease.</p>
<p>Wilmot found it extremely difficult to cope up with all this, and in 2004, he committed suicide by shooting himself at his farm.</p>
<h3>4. Alex Hepburn – England</h3>
<figure id="attachment_332319" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 640px;"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2019/04/Alex-Hepburn.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-332319" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Alex-Hepburn.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" alt="Alex Hepburn" width="640" height="400"></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Alex Hepburn. (Photo Source: Dailymail)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Let us now focus on a very recent event. Budding English cricketer <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/alex-hepburns-rape-victim-shares-her-side-of-story-on-the-horrific-incident/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Alex Hepburn</strong></a>‘s career was just blossoming. Playing for Worcestershire, he had just played 5 T20s and a couple of List A games, but that’s when things got worse. Hardly three and a half months after his T20 debut, Hepburn was charged with two counts of rape.</p>
<p>It was found that Hepburn took advantage of a sleeping woman and raped her. A month ago, the 23-year-old was sentenced to five months in prison. Instead of practising his shots at the Blackfinch New Road, Hepburn spends his days now at the HM Prison Littlehey.</p>
<p>He has been jailed for five years for raping a sleeping woman who earlier thought that she was sleeping with Joe Clarke, Hepburn&#8217;s the then teammate.</p>
<p></p>
<h3>3. Peter Roebuck – England</h3>
<figure id="attachment_402307" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-402307" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-402307" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Peter-Roebuck.jpg" alt="Peter Roebuck" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-402307" class="wp-caption-text">Peter Roebuck. (Photo by Patrick Eagar/Popperfoto via Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>One might think that when gifted players from an underprivileged background make it big, they lose their mind. But Peter Roebuck, the former English cricketer, was born to a mathematics teacher and an economics teacher. He studied law at the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s most prestigious universities. He was also a philanthropist.</p>
<p>He started the Learning for a Better World Trust which helped budding cricketers from developing nations complete their education. The Oxford-born cricketer had played over 600 domestic games. His case is a bit strange. He was in South Africa to report on a Test match between the Proteas and the Aussies for ABC and The Sydney Morning Herald.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/csa-announce-south-africa-a-squads-for-india-tour-appoint-aiden-markram-and-temba-bavuma-captains/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>South African</strong></a> Police reportedly entered the hotel to speak about the sexual assault of a 26-year-old Zimbabwean man. He asked the police to leave him alone in order to change his clothes. He jumped off from the sixth floor and took his own life. This occurrence surprised many as Roebuck had a good reputation.</p>
<h3>2. Uday Joshi – Indian-American</h3>
<figure id="attachment_402314" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-402314" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-402314" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Uday-Joshi.jpg" alt="Uday Joshi" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-402314" class="wp-caption-text">Uday Joshi. (Photo by Stanley Sherman/Daily Express/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Unfortunately, we have an Indian on this list. At his prime, Uday Joshi was an important off-spinner for his domestic teams. He has played for Gujarat, his birthplace, and also for Railways and Saurashtra. He later went to <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/world-cup-2019-here-is-how-pakistan-bangladesh-sri-lanka-and-england-can-still-qualify-for-the-semi-finals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>England</strong></a> to ply his trade for Sussex. Joshi picked up 557 wickets in 186 matches. His Wikipedia page reads that he almost made it to the Indian team.</p>
<p>Just like Wilmot, Joshi was a paedophile. He was found guilty of sexually molesting a 13-year-old in August 1979. But the verdict came out just 7 years ago. Joshi faced six years in prison. However, like Roebuck’s case, this verdict surprised many as Joshi was respected amongst his peers.</p>
<p>Many former English cricketers like Tony Greig and Jim Parks have claimed that Joshi is an innocent human being and that he was wrongfully charged.</p>
<h3>1. Rubel Hossain – Bangladesh</h3>
<figure id="attachment_232370" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 640px;"><a href="https://sportsguru.com/skillup-uploads/news-images/CT_353188.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-232370" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/CT_353188.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" alt="Rubel Hossain" width="640" height="400"></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Rubel Hossain of Bangladesh. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>We finally have a player who is a renowned face in the international circuit. Rubel Hossain, who has led Bangladesh’s pace department for many years in the past, was once accused of committing rape. A popular Bangladeshi actress, Nazneen Akter Happy claimed that the pacer promised to marry her and used his promise to have sex with her. That amounts to rape in his country.</p>
<p>He was put in custody for three days, but with the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 coming up, was granted bail. Hossain’s case was that of solving his personal problems with professional performances, as his inspirational spell against England forced Dulal Dey, Happy’s lawyer, to drop the case.</p>
<p>He said that he was extremely ‘happy’ at the glory the lad from Khulna had brought to his country and felt that he must feel no pressure.</p>

These players miserably failed on a very basic aspect of the sport - discipline.

5 cricketers who are alleged s*x offenders

Let us have a look at 5 cricketers who are alleged sex offenders: Here is the list of cricketers who have been allegedly accused of