Twenty years on from the Cronjé scandal, fixers are still targeting sport
13 April 2020 - 19:07
London — It is two decades since the Hansie Cronjé corruption scandal rocked world cricket, but even now the ripples are still being felt.
April marks the 20th anniversary of Cronjé being stripped of the SA captaincy after an extraordinary sequence of events earlier in 2000. In January, come the last day of a “dead” Test against England (SA had already won the series), a draw seemed inevitable after rain had washed out three days’ play...
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