Babar Azam Sexting Scandal: Cricketers Sexting Scandal – Babar Azam’s latest sexting scandal has sent shockwaves to everyone. The latest act by the Pakistani captain has again left us wondering whether cricket is a gentleman’s game. While the verdict yet to be out on the right-hand batter’s involvement, some of the other players like Kevin Pietersen, Shane Warne & Tim Paine suffered reputation damage due to involving in a sexting scandal in the past. Follow Babar Azam Sexting Scandal Live Updates with InsideSport.IN.
Babar Azam Sexting Scandal: Not just Pakistan captain, from Tim Paine to Kevin Pietersen & Shane Warne, ICONIC cricketers suffered REPUTATION damage, Check OUT
Babar Azam Sexting Scandal: From Pietersen to Paine, cricketers who were involved in a sexting scandal – Pietersen’s short affair with playboy model Vanessa Nimmo ended him up in a lot of trouble. Paine’s sexting stint with one of his Hobart office colleagues damaged his Australia career and marriage.
Here at InsideSport, we take a look at seven cricketers who suffered reputation damage due to the sexting Scandal
1: Kevin Pietersen
Pietersen had a short but publicly well-known stint with Playboy model Vanessa Nimmo. However, he landed in trouble when his intimate secrets were made public by Nimmo herself after Pietersen reportedly dumped her.
“Kevin was desperate for sex and kept pestering me all day. I certainly wasn’t hit for six by his performance,” Vanessa Nimmo had claimed after the breakup.
2. Shane Warne
Shane Warne had a very bad reputation when it came to girls he was dating. The biggest one among all was when he was accused of carnal relations with a couple of models during the County Championship game in 2006. ONE OF THE MODELS HAD REPORTEDLY STATED, “SHANE BLEW OUR MINDS. HE WAS SO FIT.
I’D GIVE HIM TOP MARKS FOR MORE THAN SATISFYING US. HE WAS TALKING DIRTY ALL THE TIME. IT WAS FULL-ON, HARDCORE, AND WE HAD A GREAT TIME.”
3. Chris Gayle
The self-proclaimed Universe Boss is world-famous for his lavish lifestyle. Gayle – who is semi-retired now – has been involved in a couple of infamous sex scandals.
To start with Chris Gayle was found “socializing” with three British women in his hotel room during the ICC World T20 2012.
Chris Gayle’s “Don’t blush, baby” comment to Australian TV presenter Mel McLaughlin for drinks during a live interview in the BBL is also pretty much famous, and can be easily found on social media platforms. Gayle received much backlash for his comment.
Babar Azam Sexting Scandal: Not just Pakistan captain, from Tim Paine to Kevin Pietersen & Shane Warne, ICONIC cricketers suffered REPUTATION damage, Check OUT
4. Herschelle Gibbs
the former South African opener spilled a few of his secrets in his autobiography ‘To The Point’.
Revealing an incident in his autobiography, Gibbs wrote: “I just knew I was going to get a century. Perhaps the girl lying in bed beside me had inspired me. She worked at the hotel, where I had befriended her.”
Talking about another incident, Gibbs wrote: “Two beds, two cricketers and three women. One of them wasn’t all that keen, though; she just lay on the bed. Which was fine – there was enough for everyone. The other two girls, however, more than made a go of it.”
5. Ian Botham
Ian Botham has been accused of multiple extramarital affairs and cheating on his wife.
The legendary English all-rounder had multiple affairs with an Australian waitress and with former Miss Barbados Lindy Field in the 1980s.
6. Imam Ul Haq
Pakistan opening batsman Imam Ul Haq has been accused of harassing women in the past. A series of obscene chats and images of Imam Ul Haq were leaked on social media, and he was alleged of having had multiple affairs and cheated on his girlfriends.
However, the account that leaked his chats & images was later deleted.
7. Tim Paine
Australian men’s Test captain Tim Paine took over the captaincy from Steve Smith following the infamous ‘Sandgate Scandal’ in 2018. Now in 2021, he has stepped down from captaincy due to another scandal – the sexting scandal.
Paine sent the lewd pictures and text messages to a female Cricket Tasmania employee in November 2017, shortly before the first Ashes Test of that summer.
Cricket Australia was made aware of these texts when the woman in question made a complaint, a few months after Paine took on the captaincy.
Babar Azam Sexting Scandal: Not just Pakistan captain, from Tim Paine to Kevin Pietersen & Shane Warne, ICONIC cricketers suffered REPUTATION damage, Check OUT
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