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	Hansie Cronje - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje (September 25, 1969 - June 1, 2002) was a South African cricketer (all-rounder) and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s.
		On 1 June 2002 Hansie Cronje missed a scheduled flight home from Bloemfontein to George and instead hitched a ride as the only passenger on a cargo flight in a Hawker Siddeley 748 turboprop aircraft.
		Hansie Cronje and the two pilots were killed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hansie_Cronje (575 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Hansie Cronje
		Hansie Cronje, who was killed in a plane crash on Saturday aged 32, was South Africa's most successful cricket captain and regarded as a national hero until he became implicated in a bribery, corruption and match-fixing scandal that not only wrecked his career but brought shame to the game internationally.
		Hansie advanced swiftly through the ranks of schoolboy and provincial cricket, captaining the Free State at the age of 21.
		Cronje finally admitted to the King commission that the "Satan" to which he had referred was his "unfortunate love of money", which he likened to drug and alcohol addiction.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/03/db0302.xml (1278 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Hansie Cronje
		Cronje denied the allegations - which were resolutely disbelieved by the South African cricket public - until, a few days later, he telephoned Ali Bacher, managing director of South Africa's United Cricket Board, and told him that he had not been "entirely honest" in his denials.
		Cronje was the son of a cricketing father.
		As a schoolboy, Cronje was chosen for the South African schools XI and at the age of 21 captained the Free State team.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,726665,00.html (808 words)

	Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Hansie Cronje
		Cronje, Wessel Johannes, South Africa's cricket captain in a record 53 Tests and 138 one-day internationals between 1994 and 2000, died on June 1, 2002 when the cargo plane in which he was travelling crashed on Cradock Peak in the Outeniqua mountain range on its approach to his home town, George, in the Western Cape.
		Cronje was given a harder time in England in 1994 and managed only 90 runs in six Test innings as Devon Malcolm and the young Darren Gough exposed a technical weakness against short-pitched bowling directed at his ribs.
		Cronje's appeal against his life ban was rejected by the Pretoria High Court in October 2001, and while there was talk of his having some future role in cricket, maybe coaching or in the media, he began to build a life away from the game.
	content-usa.cricinfo.com /southafrica/content/player/44485.html (3057 words)

	Cricket - South Africa - Hansie Cronje
		Hansie Cronje, was a tenacious cricketer who captained the South African cricket team at the tender age of 24 years.
		Hansie quickly developed as a cricketer of international quality and was selected to represent South Africa against the West Indies in 1991, when he was promoted to the national squad after having impressed the UCBSA selectors with his performances at the provincial level.
		Cronje was killed on 1 June 2002, in a plane crash.
	www.abcofcricket.com /Article_Library/art5/art27/hansie/hansie.htm (447 words)

	hansie cronje - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		A highly talented young batsman, occasional bowler and excellent tactician, Cronje began his career at Free State, captaining them at age 21, and first playing for his country at 22.
		Cronje's native South Africa had at least partly forgiven him for his crimes, but the rest of the cricketing world most surely had not, particularly in South Asia where Cronje's corruption was a useful counterexample to the whispered belief in "white" cricket-playing nations that the corruption infecting the game was mainly an subcontinental issue.
		Before his death, it was occasionally whispered that Cronje and the South African cricketing hierarchy wished to see him return to the game in some form.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Hansie-Cronje (476 words)

	Obituary: Hansie Cronje - SouthAfrica.info
		Cronje was one of South Africa’s most successful cricket captains before his involvement in a betting scandal brought a premature and controversial end to his career.
		Cronje quickly established himself as a player to be reckoned with, and when South Africa made its foray back into international cricket in 1991 in India, he was chosen to accompany the side for the experience.
		That was the Hansie I knew, and I hope that people will begin to see that the good in the man far outweighed the bad, and that his contribution to this country, its people and its cricket were indeed immense and worth so much more than the mistakes he made.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/sports/hansie.htm (1070 words)

	Hansie Cronje killed in plane crash - smh.com.au
		Hansie Cronje smiles during his cross-examination at the King Commission of Inquiry into allegations of cricket match-fixing in Cape Town in June 2000.
		Hansie Cronje, a former South African cricket captain at the centre of a match-fixing scandal, was killed yesterday when the cargo plane he was travelling in crashed into a mountain range in South Africa, reports said.
		Cronje at first denied his involvement when charges were levelled at him by Indian police in April 2000 but two days later he confessed to having been "not entirely honest".
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/06/01/1022569847136.html (523 words)

	Cricket Article - Hansie Cronje - Credit Where Due
		The recent death of former South African Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, epitomises the story of how this former legendary cricketer lived the last few years of his life...in the cricket wilderness and abandoned by international cricket circles and so called friends.
		In hindsight, it could be said that Hansie, may have been a fool with his honesty in coming clean, but in my view, he gained more integrity and showed much more intestinal fortitude, than the "rats" who went undeground or hid behind the advice of their silver-tailed lawyers.
		Hansie Cronje, took South Africa to the forefront of world cricket at a time when South Africa was desperate for international recognition, shared the rewards with many and wrote himself into South African cricket lore forever.
	www.abcofcricket.com /Article_Library/art5/art27/art27.htm (848 words)

	Hansie Cronje killed in air crash - theage.com.au
		Disgraced South African cricketer Hansie Cronje was killed yesterday when a plane in which he was a passenger crashed into a mountain in the far south of the country, Sports Ministry spokesman Graham Abrahams said.
		Cronje captained the national team before he was forced out of the side in an international cricket bribery scandal in 2000.
		Wessel Johannes Cronje was born into an Afrikaans family living in the capital of the Orange Free State (as it was then), a bustling bastion of Afrikanerdom.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/06/01/1022569847814.html (361 words)

	rediff.com: Cronje's June 21 testimony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Cronje: Bat sponsorship was the biggest, over four years the amount could be close to a quarter of a million rand.
		Cronje: It is a pension for the cricketer, it is the public's way of showing love for the cricketer, and yes, even I had it.
		Cronje: He said that in his opinion the match was in India's favour and that we would not be able to score 220.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2000/jun/21live.htm (3885 words)

	Hansie Cronje - The Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Frans Cronje, the older brother of Hansie Cronje who died in a plane crash in George, 500km east of Cape Town two years ago, announced in Durbanville on Wednesday that the Cronje family had authorised a full length feature film on the life of the late cricketer.
		Cronje was banned from cricket for life after he admitted to accepting money to fix cricket matches involving the South African cricket team.
		Hansie replied at the time that one cannot tell a story until it is finished.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-1225-1242_1629628,00.html (487 words)

	Hansie Cronje: A career undermined. 1/6/2002. ABC News Online
		Hansie Cronje, the former South African captain who has died in a plane crash, will be remembered chiefly for his involvement in match-fixing, which seriously undermined cricket's credibility.
		Cronje at first denied his involvement when charges were levelled at him by Indian police in April 2000 but two days later, on what South African cricket writers dubbed "Black Tuesday", Cronje confessed to having been "not entirely honest".
		Cronje was banned for life but in subsequent media interviews, for which he was paid handsomely, he repeatedly brushed off his conduct as "a mistake", hardening many South Africans' hearts toward him.
	www.abc.net.au /news/indepth/featureitems/s570719.htm (700 words)

	CNN.com - Thousands mourn Hansie Cronje - June 5, 2002
		Cronje, 32, died when the Hawker Siddeley 748 cargo plane in which he was travelling crashed into a mountain near the town of George in the Western Cape province last week.
		Cronje, who took over South Africa's national team at 25 to become its youngest captain, led South Africa to possibly its greatest triumph -- a five-run win over Australia in the Sydney Test of 1994.
		He spoke of Cronje as an inspiring leader and an endearing prankster, who put petroleum jelly on door handles and once gave a teammate sleeping pills instead of malaria tablets.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/africa/06/05/cronje.funeral (553 words)

	CNN.com - Body of Cronje retrieved from hill - June 2, 2002
		Cronje died when the Hawker Siddeley 748 cargo plane crashed into a mountainside near the picturesque town of George in the Western Cape province.
		England captain Nasser Hussain was Cronje's opposite number in the infamous fifth Test in South Africa in January 2000 when, for the first time in history, two innings of a match were forfeited to keep the game alive after rain had washed out the first three days.
		Cronje shocked the cricketing world when he admitted he had accepted about$130,000 from bookmakers to influence the course of matches.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/africa/06/02/cronje.mourning (517 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Hansie Cronje championed the South African dream in the post apartheid era after 20 years out of international cricket.
		Hansie was always in his (Keppler's) wings, an understudy to him as he was groomed to take over", reflected Richards to the 'Sunday Observer'.
		Indeed, Cronje had done a good job in trying circumstances in the renaissance of South African cricket which had suffered by an isolation of two decades from international cricket.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2001/10/21/spo04.html (408 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - Disgraced cricketer Cronje killed in plane crash - Saturday June 01, 2002 12:34 PM
		JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Hansie Cronje, a former South African cricket captain at the center of a matchfixing scandal, was killed Saturday when the cargo plane he was traveling in crashed into a mountain range in South Africa, reports said.
		Cronje's relatives said the plane left Johannesburg for George early Saturday morning but was unable to land due to bad weather conditions and crashed at about 0500 GMT.
		Cronje denied that, but admitted receiving $100,000 from gamblers in exchange for match information and conveying other offers from gamblers to teammates to perform badly.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2002/06/01/cronje_plane (385 words)

	The Observer \| Sport \| Was Hansie Cronje murdered?
		Cronje told the commission he had accepted at least $130,000 from illegal bookmakers and other undesirables on the edges of the game between 1996 and 2000.
		Hansie was also a self-proclaimed Christian, though many doubted the sincerity of his belief - as well as match fixing, there were allegations of serial adultery.
		Cronje claimed to have been born again when he knocked over and killed a child while returning overnight from a provincial match in Natal in 1991.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /osm/story/0,6903,1009957,00.html (4663 words)

	entertainment.iafrica.com \| news Hansie Cronjé — The movie
		Frans Cronjé, the older brother of Hansie Cronjé, who died in a plane crash in George two years ago, announced in Durbanville on Wednesday that the Cronjé family had authorised a full-length feature film on the life of the late cricketer.
		Cronjé was banned from cricket for life after he admitted to accepting money to fix cricket matches involving the South African cricket team.
		A statement made by Cronjé family reads: "There are many incredible lessons to be learnt from Hansie's life, his victories, the mistakes that he made and the actions he took to redeem himself.
	entertainment.iafrica.com /news/395553.htm (665 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - Cronje buried, remembered as great sportsman - Wednesday June 05, 2002 11:41 AM
		"Hansie should be remembered as the good natured spirit that he was," national cricket captain Shaun Pollock told the packed funeral service for Cronje, 32, who died Saturday in a plane crash.
		Cronje denied that, but admitted receiving dlrs 100,000 from gamblers in exchange for match information and conveying other offers from gamblers to teammates.
		Cronje was killed Saturday when the cargo plane he was traveling in crashed into a mountain range outside the city of George, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) east of Cape Town.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2002/06/05/cronje_funeral_ap (652 words)

	Hansie Cronje film to be partly shot in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Johannesburg, March 13 (IANS): A film on the life of Hansie Cronje, the late South African captain who precipitated the biggest crisis in international cricket, will be shot in India, South Africa, Australia and England, but will not feature any former or existing players.
		Cronje's elder brother Frans could not confirm to the Afrikaans weekly Rapport when work would start on the film, as the script was still only about 75 percent finalised.
		Cronje sparked off a crisis in cricket when his admission to involvement in match fixing during a game in India led to investigations and bans across the world.
	www.nowrunning.com /news/news.asp?id=2832 (400 words)

	AM Archive - Hansie Cronje farewell
		Cronje was banned from cricket for life two years ago when he admitted taking bribes from bookmakers.
		SALLY SARA: Hansie Cronje was killed in a plane crash on Saturday.
		BERTHA CRONJE: For the past two years I wanted to tell the world, I wanted to shout it out that even though Hansie made a mistake he was still the same Hansie and an honourable man.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s574922.htm (515 words)

	Hansie Cronje 'stashed millions' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Cronje, who died in a plane crash in June 2001, did not declare the existence of the Cayman Island accounts to the South African tax authorities.
		However, another source claimed the investigation into the affair was called off a month before Cronje's death to avoid embarrassment in the build-up to the World Cup which is now entering its final week in South Africa.
		In 2000, Cronje admitted taking $130 000 from bookmakers for fixing matches but it was always suspected the full amount was much more.
	www.news24.com /News24/Archive/0,,2-1659_1333850,00.html (281 words)

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