Babar Azam Sexting Scandal: From Mohammed Shami, Tim Paine to Shane Warne and Kevin Pietersen, Top 5 cricketers who got 'Honey Trapped' - In Pics

Hasin Jahan, Mohammed Shami's wife, shocked the Indian cricket community when she accused her husband of having numerous extramarital affairs and domestic violence. Hasin posted screenshots of Shami's purported conversations with other women on Facebook. Soon after, Shami refuted the charges on social media and said they were all part of a plot to discredit him.

Tim Paine, a former Australian test cricket captain, is charged with sending "unsolicited" sexts and dick pictures to a receptionist who is suing a cricketing organisation for $100k in damages.  In 2017, Renee Ferguson filed a lawsuit against Cricket Tasmania in the Federal Court, alleging that numerous staff members, including the former captain, had sexually harassed her while she worked for the organisation. In court documents, the mother and former employee claimed that inappropriate sexual comments and "sexually explicit text messages" to coworkers were standard working behaviour at the company. In a startling turn of events, the woman claims in the 18-page legal filing that the graphic texts were not consented to, contrary to what Paine claimed when he left last year.

Warne was caught harassing married British nurse Donna Wright with lewd phone calls and voice messages during his stint as the Australian vice-captain. Warne, then married to Simone Warne, was stripped of his vice-captaincy as a result of the news spreading like a wildfire across the world.

Kevin Pietersen had his share of controversies over the years. One of them includes his affair with Big Brother fame Vanessa Nimmo, who was dumped by KP over an SMS text. Furious after the break-up, she had made a bold statement, saying: "Kevin was desperate for sex and kept pestering me all day.

West Indian giant run-machine Chris Gayle was once caught with three British women in a Sri Lankan hotel room and thanks to the West Indies security team, the women were handed over to the police and Gayle was saved from embarrassment. He again became headlines for the wrong reasons for asking a TV presenter out on LIVE TV. He later apologised to her.