Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif (Pakistan)
Mohhamad Asif (L), Shoaib Akhtar (R)
Shoaib could start a fight in an empty room, so a perpetually combustible dressing room full of cricket equipment was always likely to land him in trouble at some stage. In 2007 he was sent home from the inaugural World Twenty 20 and banned for 13 matches by the PCB after hitting Asif with a bat. Shoaib said that he struck Asif by accident during a fight with Shahid Afridi. “Please don’t portray me as a villain,” he said. “I am not a villain.”