7 Infamous incidents when cricketers were banned for doping

2. Shane Warne consumed diuretic: 

The mercurial Australian leg-spinner, arguably the greatest of all-time, was sent home a day before the 2003 World Cup kicked off in South Africa. In a shocking development as Warne was banned for a year from the game after a drug test on him during an ODI series in Australia showed a positive result for a banned diuretic. He defended himself stating that the drug was given to him by his mother and that he thought it was only a fluid tablet. The Australian Cricket Board, however, found him guilty of breaking the Board’s drug code. Warne returned to cricket in 2004 after serving the ban and went on to play for his country till 2007.