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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 3208094" data-attributes="member: 120286">Hansie CronjeMatch fixingOn 7 April 2000, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Police,_Delhi" target="_blank">Delhi police</a> revealed they had a recording of a conversation between Cronje and Sanjay Chawla, a representative of an Indian betting syndicate, over match-fixing allegations. Three other players: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschelle_Gibbs" target="_blank">Herschelle Gibbs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Boje" target="_blank">Nicky Boje</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Strydom" target="_blank">Pieter Strydom</a> were also implicated. On 8 April 2000 the UCBSA (United Cricket Board of South Africa) denied that any of their players were involved in match-fixing, Cronje said "the allegations are completely without substance" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansie_Cronje#cite_note-23" target="_blank">[24]</a>. However, on April 11 Cronje was sacked as captain after confessing to Ali Bacher that he had not been "entirely honest". He admitted accepting between $10,000 and $15,000 from a London-based <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmaker" target="_blank">bookmaker</a> for 'forecasting' results, not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_fixing" target="_blank">match fixing</a>, during the recent one day series in India.On 7 June the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=King_Commission&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank">King Commission</a> began. The following day Gibbs revealed that Cronje had offered him $15,000 to score less than 20 runs in the 5th ODI at Nagpur. He also admitted another offer of $15,000 to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Williams_(cricketer)" target="_blank">Henry Williams</a> to concede more than 50 runs in that same match. Gibbs scored 74 off 53 balls and Williams injured his shoulder and couldn't complete his second over so neither received the $15,000. Off-spinner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Crookes" target="_blank">Derek Crookes</a>, who was also a witness, admitted being surprised to open the bowling at Nagpur <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansie_Cronje#cite_note-24" target="_blank">[25]</a>.On 15 June Cronje released a statement that revealed all his contact with bookmakers. In 1996 during the third Test in Kanpur, he was introduced to Mukesh Gupta by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Azharuddin" target="_blank">Mohammad Azharuddin</a>. Gupta gave Cronje $30,000 to persuade the South Africans to lose wickets on the last day to lose the match, South Africa were 127/5 chasing 460, Cronje was already out and spoke to no other players "I had received money for doing nothing". During the return tour Cronje received $50,000 from Gupta for team information.In the 2000 Centurion Test Marlon Aronstam contacted him offering R500,000 for the charity of his choice together with a gift if Cronje declared and made a game of it. He also admitted asking Pieter Strydom to place an R50 bet on South Africa to win for him. 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 to fix a match, Cronje gave him the names of Gibbs, Strydom and Boje to try to get rid of him. But 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.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansie_Cronje#cite_note-25" target="_blank">[26]</a>On 28 August Gibbs and Williams were suspended from playing international cricket for 6 months. Gibbs was also fined R60,000 and Williams R10,000, while Strydom received no punishment <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansie_Cronje#cite_note-26" target="_blank">[27]</a>.On 11 October Cronje was banned from playing or coaching cricket for life <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansie_Cronje#cite_note-27" target="_blank">[28]</a>. He challenged his life ban in September 2001 but on 17 October 2001 his application was dismissed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansie_Cronje#cite_note-28" target="_blank">[29]</a>.<a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/" target="_blank">http://www.elakiri.com/forum/</a>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hansie_Cronje&action=edit&section=11" target="_blank">edit</a>] Plane crashOn 1 June 2002 Cronje's scheduled flight home from Bloemfontein to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George,_South_Africa" target="_blank">George</a> had been grounded so instead he hitched a ride as the only passenger on a cargo flight in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_HS_748" target="_blank">Hawker Siddeley HS 748</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboprop" target="_blank">turboprop</a> aircraft. Near George airport, the pilots lost visibility in cloud, and were unable to land, partly due to unserviceable navigational equipment. While circling, the plane crashed into the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outeniqua" target="_blank">Outeniqua</a> mountains northeast of the airport. Cronje, aged 32, and the two pilots were killed instantly.In August 2006 an inquest into the plane crash by South Africa's High Court started <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansie_Cronje#cite_note-29" target="_blank">[30]</a> - the inquest reached the conclusion that "the death of the deceased Wessel Johannes (Hansie) Cronje was brought about by an act or omission <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima_facie" target="_blank">prima facie</a> amounting to an offence on the part of pilots." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansie_Cronje#cite_note-30" target="_blank">[31]</a>However, theories that Cronje was murdered - on the orders of a cricket betting syndicate - have flourished since his death, and were most recently re-floated by former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottinghamshire" target="_blank">Nottinghamshire</a> coach <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Rice" target="_blank">Clive Rice</a> in the wake of the death of Pakistan coach <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Woolmer" target="_blank">Bob Woolmer</a> in March 2007 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansie_Cronje#cite_note-31" target="_blank">[32]</a>. Cronje's alleged involvement in match-fixing, the suspicion of murder in both the Cronje and Woolmer cases and the links between cricketers and betting syndicates have since appeared in the 2008 novel Raffles and the Match-Fixing Syndicate by Adam Corres.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hansie&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank">Hansie</a>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographical_film" target="_blank">biographical film</a> about the life of Hansie Cronje was released on 26 September 2008. The film was written by older brother Frans Cronje and directed by Regardt van den Bergh. The title role is played by Frank Rautenbach.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansie_Cronje#cite_note-32" target="_blank">[33]</a></blockquote>

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