I always felt like there is so much more in the cronje story than what we can actually see. Anyone can sense that there was something wrong behind the scene which we never got to know. And his death in very next year, even more suspicious. Great player, great leader but sad end..

My father used to talk about how big a legend he was, and how tragic his death was

Gosh That quote by William Shakespeare from Hamlet, pretty much sums it up … “One may smile, and smile and be a villain…”

2:16 *If one of the nicest guys in the sport was dirty, how clean could the game really be?* The question remains the same.

Love him, and will always love him. He was human, so he is supposed to make mistakes. And he had the guts to accept his mistakes. Miss you Cronje

Hansi Crojne should be forgiven. At least he had the guts to come out and Accept his mistake. Unlike Asian players Azharuddin, Jadeja, Salim Malik who still defend themselves.

the shock of my life! Cronje not for one second did i ever believe he could do such a thing .. was literally depressed for few weeks after this thinking about it!

For me Hansie Cronje is still a great sportsman, I know what he did was wrong, but for me, I've seen him call players back to the crease because they really were'nt out, and even when they were, possibly the greatest sportsman spirit i've ever seen, he was a great ambassador, unfortunate what happened with him and to him eventually, may he RIP

I was born in 1995.. But my older brother and sister praised Hansie.. And I read Herschelle Gibbs' auto bio To The Point and I always watch his last ODI with India in 2000.. Hansie made a mistake... I just want him to know where ever he's laid to rest that he is the best Captain the Proteas ever had and that he is my hero ❤️❤️... Oh and I also read about how an arse Daryll is from the same book..

He was the only one with balls and honesty to confess. He knew he was ending his career. Without his confession there would have been no case. #RIP legend

It's not only shocking new for SA team it's for entire world. SA team which he built was strongest team I've ever seen.. Rhodes, Cullinan, Kallis, Donald, Pollock, Gary so many are there. He built team from scratch. Hard to believe that he destroyed it.

I still believe Cronje took the blame for someone else was in trouble & no one had his back. He was fighting only. U will always be loved

Personal favorite player. What a leader he was !!! Sad we lost him so early . Love from India. RIP.

He is a legend and always will be. The only reason to respect him is that, he has the guts to speak the "TRUTH".

Sometimes good people make mistakes ... unfortunately life is sometimes harsh. Rip Hanse.

He was brave enough to confess. The sentence was too harsh on him.

South Africa was the most respected cricket team around that time. Hanse was one of the most adored, respected and a true gentleman, a fitting ambassador of the game. As a cricket crazy teen, I remember crying to this news followed by not able to watch any cricket match for a long time afterwards. Atleast he had guts and conscience to confess, unlike many others.

The late Hansie made a Mistake at the peak of his career where one's mind can play tricks with you... He wanted to have a clear Conscience, so he Manned up... but as fate would have it, he paid the Ultimate Price!!! That's the world we live in... so other corrupt cricketers keep their mouths shut and hide in their own shame, hoping with time people with forget everything... and that's what people have done. Today many such cricketers are commentators, guest media speakers, even contested in local elections.... RIP Hansie. Atleast you tried!!!

Respect to Cronje, hated and loved the guy when he played against Pak. I literally turned a blind eye to his confession, use to change the TV channel when they talked abt it n started hating Klusner for snitching.

Should've mentioned role of Indian cricketers too..

Always and will always be the greatest captain of all time . Given his record as a captain only bettered by ponting playing more matches along with the win percentage. Was an inspiration that we lost due to the dark world of fixing. He was killed no doubt and woolmer too. Rip Cronje you will forever be on the best allrounders and leader to have played this game.

You probably should also include some clipings. For eg when you say, he confessed in the media, it's better to show what were his exact words. Or like in the last video, you could also show how Lance Klusner was runout. Please work on this thing

Many players fought in court and got their suspensions removed, Hansie was honest and they banned him for life. Honesty is expensive. The sentence was too harsh 😢

I feel so bad for him. Being banned for life, then dying aged 32…

Cronje is still a captain I love

He really was my favorite player and captain and still is.

He was man enough to come out and speak the truth at great personal cost to himself. I will always respect him for that. Everyone deserves a second chance in life. Sadly, Cronje didn’t get his. RIP Hansie.

He was hushed and he died with protecting so many other players

Watching the video on the day of death of Shane Warne chops back me to early 2000's comment which I also read in a book written by a senior Cricket journalist in Kolkata where Alan Donald is saying "Whenever I go back to the run up with ball in my hand(May be some friction in trouser to keep the polish of the ball),I see the dead soul of Hansie giving direction to me what will I have to do and what field I have to set -So even though he was no longer alive, I still consider him my captain and he always will be"-That's the legacy Cronje created for South African team. But on the world cup semi final day of 1999 Hansie and another legend BOB Woolmer who had another tragic death during 2007 world cup made one blunder which cost SA that they didn't send greatest performer of that world cup Lance Klusenar to bat on early when he was winning match after match. If Lance was sent slightly up on the batting order, so instead of only 15 deliveries he could face 40-50 deliveries and SA would have easily won. Why don't you use your Trump card in a crunch match like that? So even though he was a smart leader with smart coach, they made a mess on this tactic on that particular day. Otherwise SA would have won the world cup and I was whole heartedly cheering for SA at that time. Regarding scandal of Cronje, yes he took money and confessed the truth-other's didn't. Again I am quoting from that book written by that journalist "Why Cronje's greed for money arose and then why his Christian conscience arose later that he told the truth to the world?"-Only he or his God knows. But due to Cronje, others who never told the truth were caught in the bookie rackets including several Pakistani players, from India Muhammed Azharuddin, Ayay Jadeja, from Australia Shane Warne, Mark Waugh and many later. So indeed he gave a right or colorful direction to the game by sacrificing his own life which changed the direction or path of the game in a rightful direction when entire cricketing fraternity was doubtful about the authenticity of the game.

*An excellent captain, true leader, and an honest sportsperson.* *RIP Hansie Cronje❤*

Cricket is much better than other sports, where corruption runs the game. At least in cricket, there are only isolated moments, which are heavily punished.....

He admitted it , And only got hate But, he got a sight of relief deep inside ,IMO

He did what he did and paid the price.. on the hind site.. he was only man capable of taking on Steve Waugh head to head in the 90's until Saurav Ganguly rose to power... SA and some times PAK were the only teams who were capable of beating AUS in the 90's..

He was killed bcz he was going to expose every fixer in everyboard!

I’m an Aussie and I grew up fearing him. He seemed such incredible fortitude and was an incredible competitor. I can’t emphasize enough how much of a shock it was.

Feel so sorry for cronje. He deserved another chance

Cronje still a hero ❣️

Excellent player of the world!

Respect to Cronje

He could keep it hidden and no one would ever know about it. Still he confessed it by himself. He didn't deserve life ban. Here is a saying in India "subah ka bhoola sham ko ghar laut aaye to usko bhoola nahi khte" i.e. if someone realises and regret for the mistakes he has done z he shouldn't be considered as a criminal/accused

This was when I stopped watching cricket altogether. The India south Africa series was something I watched with passion, during teen years

We need another 25 of them

man i was such an admirer of cronje when i was young boy

He is still My favourite captain..

was shocked as 10 yr old....when fixing was exposed and hansie and azhar were involved. #ripcronje

Can’t believe that it has been 20 years since Hansie Cronje died tragically.

He is a legend for confessing it.

A tragic hero. That's all I can say. 🙂

To my knowledge they didn't play to score only a set number of runs or bowl wides it was giving information away on pitch conditions before it was televised. I know that there were cases of where he asked players like Gibbs and i know that was was assumed that Gibbs accepted to only score below 15 in the match he went on to score over 50... I still feel Hansi was bullied into a confession beyond what he did and the public guilt just drove him to wanting a way out which would have been tell the people what they want to hear instead of defending yourself.

This really is a tragic chapter of Cricket.

It is impossible to express the exalted reputation Cronje had before this scandal.

What crojne did was the biggest crime in cricket, but now for once imagine yourself in his shoes, do u feel if u would have achieved so much in your career and you were an example of leadership all over the world, you were respected by everyone. And in that situation that person chose honesty over every other fucking thing, he could have easily got away with it and fixing would have remained a rumour, but that man by himself accepted his mistake when no one else did.

This guy was my hero

Now whole cricket seems to be fixed, most of all ipl after first season I wish there would be some light on it too

BBC did a good podcast series on the Cronje affair which I thought did a good job of humanising his story, speaking to his family especially. He was wrong for doing what he did and his name will forever be associated with it, but many athletes have done the exact same thing too.

Hansi cronje was the great cricketer and captain

Many cricketers do it. I am sure it must be happening so often in IPL and international cricket too at times. Hansie was too honest to accept it. Others won't accept.

Such a legend, just wasted his life running behind money. So guys the younger you are money is like zeroes in the left of the decimal amd gradually as you grow you crave for it

Fixing was a talk of the Town in 90's.

Apparently he got an offer to fix a match for money, a dead rubber game in India, and he discussed whether to do it with the whole team. As it was something that one man couldn’t do by himself, it had to be the whole team. So they talked about it and ultimately decided to not do it. That shows that the team knew that it was happening though.

Really a sad story of cricket

I remember this so clearly as a kid in SA....Hanse was ICONIC and revered by all South African's, black, white, indian or coloured. I honestly think that this is one of the main reasons for the demise of cricket in SA

Why is this only clicking now... do you think they fixed the 1999 semi v australia 👀👀👀👀 or the game before when Gibbs dropped the Steve Waugh sitter 🤯 I literally cried when they lost those games

He was the whistleblower so was killed. 😭😭

Cronje might have done mistake. But he proved he's man with character by accepting his mistake and most importantly his confession opened the dark world of fixing which was always suspected by many. If Cronje haven't confessed, fixers might be ruling the cricket world.

My hero best captain

The best captain I have seen. Probably south Africa would have won a world Cup.

Sad to see so much negativity on Cronje in the cricket fraternity when he was introduced to the fixers by some Indian players. The subcontinent players have been at it for decades and it peaked in the 90s. Cronje a relative simpleton in the match fixing scandal and the first cricketer to admit his folly. A good human deep inside!

This music sets sorrow and regret deep inside

Hansie will always get my respect for accepting his fault while azhar and all didn't

0:14 WTF is osama doing in cricket!!

At 2:17 was that bob woolmer😲

Very sad.One might certainly not understand what a cricketer goes through when he gets involved in match fixing.They are not provided sufficient protection because these bookies really are in contact with the underworld.Best example is of Sharjah where Dawood used to book most of the matches involving India and Pakistan and Pakistan used to win many matches there because of Dawood.Then it led to further match fixing incidents including this incident and not to forget domestic leagues like IPL or PSL or even BPL.It is everywhere.

The Dark Hour in Cricket if not for match fixing feel sad for Hansie though...!!

RIP leader

Yes this truth hansie should have been ,forgiven,because he was such a wonderful cricketer and one of the outstanding captain the cricket 🏏 has ever seen

Biggest and most notorious of all match fixers are from India and Australia and they will never be implicated or even mentioned in a match fixing charge unless they confess the way Warner and smith did...this vid also waters down what south Africa did to cronje after he confessed...cronje could not even be involved in a school's cricket team so severe was his ban yet smith and co. were given one year bans each and are STILL involved in domestic and international cricket tournaments because at the end of the day "they are only human" i guess cronje wasn't and another thing cronje didn't " pass away in an plane crash" do the math...he was the only one in a small aircraft when it crashed into the mountains of south Africa Next time do your homework ESPN

I actually kind of feel sorry for him r.i.p

I always respected Cronje as one of finest players South Africa ever produced. However his confession disappointed many

Hansie was a great man.. There were others involved like gibbs but he took full responsibility.. The charges was way too harsh.. Look at the aussies.. All of them are still playing today

Still I respect him, at least he had guts to accept. Match fixing is everywhere just that we don't get to know.

The only lifetime ban that actually stuck.

I don’t care what he did but my number one captain he is no one can match him

A shame he doesn't get mentioned when all-rounders get talked about.

I will never come to terms that Hansie did this. There is much more that we do not know.My heart tells me otherwise. I believe his innocent and I do not care who says what. Hansie admitted he took the money but am sure it was not just him alone. He protected other people who was involved.

He had guts to confess...I wish akram, azhar uddin,kapil dev and other did same

He would have had a field day in T20

He without sin shall cast the first stone!! We are all dirty MFs....

Cullinan had no clue?? Hmm.

South africa team was very strong under cronje captaincy

He should have given a one chance, He confessed and ban should b on him only for a year..Not for life..After all he was a legend

I'm not a fan of Cronje. But if everyone is telling me to forgive Smith and Warner they must tell themselves to get over Cronje and everyone else.

how did it change cricket, New zealanders , pakistanis , west indians and indians caught after this incident

India had win the series played in india itself....and tragic to believe at that time also how india defeat South Africa such a strongest team.

He should be Banned for few years rather than for life because he confessed unlike other asian cricketer Salim malik , Ijaz ahmad etc..

Cronje should be forgiven for his honesty and game changibg testimony unlike Azharuddin,Ajay Jadeja and Salim Malik who still defend tgemselves

We fans should stop forgiving everyone and I mean everyone. We should open our eyes and don't see the world blinded. IPL , today's most matches are fixed and we still behaves as if it's "Gentleman's" game. #Stopthis .

Unforgiving world! Confession of match fixing is not easy thing to do! he should be forgiven!!!

So this was my father talking all about...

If not for that confession and his crash, definitely he mite have led SA to lift 2003 WC.