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#9 Hansie Cronje (South Africa)
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The former South African captain Hansie Cronje was allegedly involved in match fixing
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Cronje was one of the most influential figures in South African cricket and a great leader. He led his troops very well throughout his career but his involvement in the match-fixing scandal during the twilight of his career shocked the entire cricketing fraternity. In 2000, Cronje revealed that he had connections with an Indian bookie who was introduced to him by the then Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin.
After his sudden revelation, Cronje was banned for life along with other Indian stars. The man who led South Africa in the historic 1999 World Cup died in 2002 after a terrible plane crash.
An all-rounder of the highest calibre, Cronje was a very good batsman in the lower middle-order scoring 3,714 runs in Tests and 5,565 runs in ODIs. Besides his batting skills, Cronje was a good medium pacer and dismissed the great Sachin Tendulkar on a number of occasions. Tendulkar himself revealed that Cronje was one bowler who he found very hard to pick.
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Arya Sekhar Chakraborty
Arya is a cricket journalist with around 8 years of experience who writes informative listicles and is in charge of text commentary at Sportskeeda. He is a graduate in Journalism, Psychology, and English, and has previously worked for websites such as CricTracker, SportzWiki, Cricket Addictor, Cricfit, OneCricket, and Cricket Exchange. His vast experience has led him to know the pulse of his readers and he cross-checks information from a number of credible sources before writing a single word for their sake.
A former Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) U14 and U16 player, Arya's tryst with cricket began after watching Sachin Tendulkar in action during his childhood. He is an ardent fan of Mumbai Indians (MI) owing to Tendulkar's initial involvement and also bleeds blue for his national team. He is an admirer of Test cricket as he feels the red-ball format teaches one about every facet of life.
Arya, who feels ODIs should not be completely replaced with T20Is owing to the former's pacing and charm, would like to go back in time to 1998 and watch the Master Blaster in action. He has experience in interviewing a few Bengali cricketers such as Kazi Junaid Saifi, Shib Shankar Pal, Sayan Ghosh and Prayas Ray Barman. He has also translated a couple of Bengali cricket books, and made Indian Premier League (IPL) pre-match videos.
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