South Africa’s all-rounder Hansie Cronje, who died in 2002 this day, flirted with greatness but succumbed to the lure, revealing the dark world of cricket bribery before his tragic death in a 32-year-old plane crash.
“Hansie was a fantastic leader,” team mate Gary Kirsten said after the tragic early death of Cronje, in his tribute.
Two years before his death, Cronje’s admission that he had taken bribes from an Indian bookmaker to fix matches shook the sport to its foundations. Cronje ‘s revelation two years before his death that he had taken money from an Indian bookmaker to rig matches rocked the sport to its roots.