Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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. Cronje was offered $140,000 for the fifth ODI if Gibbs scored under 20, Williams went for more than 50 and South Africa scored around 270. [6]
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 .
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
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 ...
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 ...
Jadeja was banned for 4 years. Although Cronje was a kingpin of betting, following untimely death in 2002 most of his fixing partners escaped law enforcement agencies. Earlier in 1998, Australian players Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined for revealing information about the 'weather' to a bookmaker.
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. The South African government refused to allow any of its players to face the Indian investigation unit, which opened up a can of worms.
South Africa cricket match fixing in 2000 which resulted in the banning from cricket of Hansie Cronje Ball tampering controversy in August 2006 - On August 20, 2006, when Pakistan toured England in the fourth test, the umpires Darrell Hair and Billy Doctrove ruled that the Pakistani team had been ball tampering and gave five penalty runs to ...