Cronje named as accused in fixing case

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Monday named deceased former South Africa captain Hansie Cronje as accused in the infamous match-fixing case of the year 2000. No other cricketer has been named in the chargesheet apart from Cronje.

Two other South African cricketers, namely Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje, were left out of the chargesheet because the police say they do not have enough evidence against them.

Though names of several Indian cricketers had also cropped up in the scandal, including that of former India captain Mohd Azharuddin, no Indian cricketers are named as accused.

It was a 13-year-old fixing case in which the Crime Branch of Delhi Police had revealed that an India-South Africa one-day international match played in March, 2000 was fixed. The police claimed that they intercepted phone conversations between London-based bookie Sanjeev Chawla and Cronje which suggested that money was exchanged to fix the match.

Though Cronje initially denied the allegations, he later admitted before an enquiry commission that he took $15,000 to leak information about forecasts before the match after which he was banned for life. The disgraced SA skipper died in a helicopter crash in 2002.

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