|| CF Correspondent ||

England's World Cup winning cricket star Adil Rashid has been 'named and shamed' by the Inland Revenue as a tax evader.

Rashid was identified by tax officials as a 'deliberate defaulter' who failed to pay more than £100,000 in taxes.

Rashid, who helped England lift the World Cup at Lords last summer, has a 'central' contract with the England team where stars are paid around £1 million a year, defaulted on his tax returns over four years from 2013-2017 and was identified by tax officials as a 'deliberate defaulter' who failed to pay more than £100,000 in taxes

He has been fined £36,608.13 by the taxman for the four-year misdemeanor and publicly shamed by having his name revealed along with other defaulters.

Rashid was also ordered to pay £100,280.89 in back taxes on top of the penalty.

The 32-year-old cricketer, who last played in one-day international matches in South Africa two months ago, told Mail Online his non-payment was just a 'mistake' and denied he had avoided tax deliberately.

‘’I was shocked when I found out. But it was a simple mistake - there is nothing else to it. As a player, you just play and leave it to the accountant,’’ Rashid was quoted in Mail online recently.

‘’Everything was paid up and I told England about it. I have nothing to hide. If there is something that I had to hide, I would not be who I am,’’ he said.

‘’I am an England cricketer - why would I not pay my tax? 'Where would it leave me? There is no need for that for me personally,’’ he said.

''HMRC wrote me a letter and I sorted it out straight away.

'My tax is up to date now. Obviously we had to pay a few fines but that is the nature of the thing.'