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The demise of Hansie Cronje:
Hansie Cronje
When the first case of match-fixing came into picture, the cricket world was taken by a storm. The most worshiped and madly viewed game was being manipulated behind the close doors. The game was being sold for money.
The gentleman’s game was being sold match by match by the most laid back captain of that time – South Africa’s Hansie Cronje. He was condemned of selling his country’s pride in tournaments at Sharjah and during the India tour. He even tried to frame Gibbs, Boje, Kallis, Boucher and Klusener.
On 15th June 2000 Cronje confessed of taking large sums of money and begged for forgiveness for letting the team, the country and the fans down. The offence was such that the peace loving Nelson Mandela also chastised Cronje – “you have made a serious mistake”. Subsequently on 11th October 2000 he was banned from cricket for life.
After strenuous two years of inexorable pain and shame when it was all going fine in Hansie’s life, the news broke on 1st June 2002 that his plane crashed into Cradock peak.
