5 Captains who have been charged for ball-tampering 

#3 Shahid Afridi - Australia v Pakistan, Perth (2010)

Shahid Afridi was caught on cameras biting the ball.

Shahid Afridi has had his fair share of controversies throughout his cricketing career. This incident is the famous ball-biting one which took place at the WACA in Perth in an ODI.

During that tour, Pakistan were thrashed 3-0 in the Test series and they hadn’t won a single game in the 5-match ODI series. 0-4 down in the series, Pakistan won the toss and batted first. After a top-order failure, Pakistan got to 212 and were bowled out in the 50th over.

Despite the low score, the game was heading towards a close finish as Pakistan bowlers kept taking wickets at regular intervals to peg the Aussies back. However, in the latter stages of the game, Afridi was caught by television cameras biting the ball. This was brought to the notice of the on-field umpires by the third (TV) umpire Rod Tucker. The ball was changed after the information was passed on and Pakistan went onto to lose that game in the final over.

Afridi who was the stand-in captain and also Pakistan’s T20 skipper was banned for two T20Is after he pleaded guilty in a hearing with Ranjan Madugalle (the match referee for that game).