Ghost of Hansie Cronje’s ills still haunts South Africa | IOL

Johannesburg - Former Proteas captain Hansie Cronje will have been dead for 18 years in June. But does he still have secrets and are those secrets in danger of being revealed in an Indian court? Cronje’s reputation has become a matter of some debate for South Africans. There’s a camp that believes all should be forgiven, while another won’t forgive and still others feel bygones should be bygones.

Last month was the 20th anniversary of what is now known as the “leather jacket Test” in which Cronje’s declaration of a South African innings and then offer to England captain, Nasser Hussain, led to an exciting final day of what had been a rain-ruined Test in Centurion. Back in 2000, Cronje was viewed as innovative, but now we know what nefarious deeds led to Cronje’s offer.

This week, Cronje’s name popped up again. Sanjeev Chawla, the man whose voice was on the other side of those famous taped phone recordings in 2000 of Cronje accepting offers to fix parts of matches during South Africa’s ODI series against India in 2000, lost his final appeals to stop India extraditing him from England to face the music.

Chawla, said to be a middleman between players and the Indian underworld, has been living in England for the past 19 years.

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