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Hansie Cronje: The Rise and Fall of a Cricket Legend
Introduction
Hansie Cronje’s cricket journey is both inspiring and controversial. If there is a single sporting figure who inspires contradictory sentiments amongst cricket’s fans, it would have to be Hansie Cronje. A man of great authority and a great sport, Hansie Cronje became a household name when he was appointed captain of the South African national cricket team in the mid-1990s. Significant victories came to the team under his captaincy as well. However, his bright career was abruptly ended by his involvement in a match-fixing scandal. The world cried foul and stormed out of the stadium in disbelief. For all his accomplishments, however, his posthumous image had been, and would always be, encumbered by grievances.
Hansie Cronje Biography
| Full Name | Wessel Johannes Cronje | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Hansie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place Of Birth | Bloemfontein, Orange Free State | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 25, 1969 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | June 01, 2002, Cradock Peak, Western Cape, South Africa, (aged 32y 249d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing Role | Allrounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hansie CronjeWisden Obituary At first he had hotly denied charges levelled by the New Delhi police, who during a phone-tapping operation in March 2000 heard him conspiring with an Indian bookmaker, Sanjeev Chawla, to predetermine performances. And such was his standing as a player, captain and sporting ambassador for post-apartheid South Africa that few in the cricket world doubted him, preferring to heap scorn on the Indian investigation. Ali Bacher, managing director of the United Cricket Board of South Africa, spoke of Cro
Hansie CronjeSouth African cricketer (1969–2002)
Wessel Johannes Cronje (25 September 1969 – 1 June 2002) was a South African international cricketer and captain of the South Africa national cricket team in the 1990s. A right-h Copyright ©mobthaw.pages.dev 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||