5 instances when cricketers were fined for the most bizarre reasons

#2 Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh – for entering New Zealand wearing dirty shoes

The two were fined 200 NZ dollars ($100) at the airport for their dirty footwear

Although this fine was not levied for offensive actions pertaining to the 22 yards, it still remains Indian cricket’s one of the most interesting stories of cricketers being fined. Spinner Harbhajan Singh and batsman Virender Sehwag were fined by New Zealand`s Ministry of Agriculture for arriving in the country with dirty shoes in 2002.

The two were fined 200 NZ dollars ($100) at the airport for their dirty footwear.

New Zealand boasts of bio-security laws which are designed to safeguard the country from several imported diseases like foot and mouth diseases among others. If the two cricketers had declared their shoes, they would have been cleaned at New Zealand taxpayers' expense and handed back to them.