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Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje (25 September 1969 – 1 June 2002) was a South African international cricketer and captain of the South Africa national cricket team in the 1990s. A right-handed all-rounder, as captain Cronje led his team to victory in 27 Test matches and 99 One Day Internationals .
After the match Aronstam visited Cronje, giving him two amounts of money (R30,000 and R20,000) together with a leather jacket. The promised R500,000 did not materialise. Before the one-day series, Cronje received repeated calls from "Sanjay" asking him to fix a match. Cronje gave him the names of Gibbs, Strydom and Boje to try to get rid of him.
In 2000, the Delhi police intercepted a conversation between a blacklisted bookie and the South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje in which they learnt that Cronje accepted money to throw matches. [1] [2] The South African government refused to allow any of its players to face the Indian investigation unit. A court of inquiry was set up and ...
South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje was one of the sport's biggest stars until 2000, when he admitted to accepting bribes to fix matches. Involved in match-fixing since the mid-'90s, he ...
Hansie Cronje South Africa: Life ban: Guilty of accepting monetary rewards from bookmakers for providing information and for fixing matches. [7] 8: Herschelle Gibbs South Africa: 6 months: Initially agreed to under-perform in an ODI game at Nagpur, but reneged on the deal and scored 74 off just 53 balls. [8] 9: Henry Williams South Africa: 6 months
In 2000 the Delhi police intercepted a conversation between a blacklisted bookie and the South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje in which they learnt that Cronje accepted money to throw matches. A court of inquiry was set up and Cronje admitted to throwing matches. He was immediately banned from all cricket.
The following lists events that happened during 2002 in South Africa. Incumbents ... Hansie Cronje, cricketer. (b. 1969) 29 June – Stephen Fry, Springbok captain. (b.
He led the side to England in the summer of 1994, drawing the three Test series 1–1. Following a heavy defeat at the Oval, however, where he made the second highest score of 28 with the bat during a major collapse in the second innings, [26] he retired from Test cricket and was replaced as captain by Hansie Cronje. [27]