In the winter of 1998, Mark Waugh and Shane Warne admitted to accepting money from an Indian bookmaker before a one-day match that took place in 1994.

The two players were fined by the Australian Cricket Board, in 1995, which kept quiet until the matter was exposed in 1998.

Troubled by form lapses, media pressure and further investigations into his alleged links with illegal cricket bookmakers, it seemed as if the pressure was too much for Mark to handle.