During a busy county season, there were opportunities for fun. Cronje idolised him - taking honours against Kepler's EP would be just the thing. Wessels had beaten a path to the summit of the game and had done so on his own terms. News18 18 Years on from Hansie Cronje's Death.
He couldn't always do it.As the decade funnelled to an end, Cronje and politicians like Bacher circled each other increasingly warily. Matters began on a grace note of flag-draping emotion, with a thumping win Cronje had a miserable time in England. Cronje's initial denials that he had been involved in match-fixing were met with chest-thumping agreement by the vox populi.
Parsons remembers There was more. Hansie's mom, San-Marie, was famous for her cooking, and there was extra attraction: Parsons rather fancied Hansie's sister, Hester.Cronje's disastrous first trip to the Wanderers was soon forgotten. It wasn't the first time that the path of Cronje - who had been feted early on as a possible South Africa captain - intersected with the crosswinds of politics.At the beginning of the following year Cronje's fine domestic form was rewarded with a place in South Africa's first ever World Cup squad.
After the 1987 Nuffield Week, the national schools tournament, he went on to captain SA Schools with Jonty Rhodes as a team-mate, and by the 1989-90 season, he was scoring his first first-class century - Parsons says that Cronje was not only self-evidently ambitious, he was also a good planner. While the young Cronje brothers were struggling to tame Estwick on a spicy Wanderers deck, their dad, Ewie, and others had campaigned tirelessly for OFS to take what they believed was her rightful place among the traditional domestic powerhouses of the South African game; he also represented OFS at board meetings and was close to the United Cricket Board's Ewie grew up in the small town of Bethulie, south of Bloemfontein, and had learned cricket from David Marks, the owner of the local Royal Hotel.
"Orange Free State's new-found first-class status was, in a sense, a family affair. Parsons replied that because Hansie was a little rigid at the crease, he'd bowl on fourth stump, moving it away, and his guess was that the youngster would go at it with hard hands. Player News. It was a difficult burden to bear.Cronje's dislike of political compromise was one thing, the tragic flaw in his personality quite another. Woolmer didn't see fit to include anything in his post-tour report, and by the time a new coach, Graham Ford, took South Africa to India next, in 2000, institutional memory had been lost. Although the South Africans lost all six matches, Cronje was in sublime form, rounding off South Africa's penultimate game with a not-out hundred Cronje's first Test in charge was against Ken Rutherford's New Zealanders, At the end of Cronje and Woolmer's first full season together, Cronje married his childhood sweetheart, Bertha Pretorius. What had started so warmly with Woolmer also began to sour. Rank distribution His name was Bob Woolmer and he was a man for whom the word Against his better judgement, Wessels remained. Personal Info. Towards the end of the team's first fully fledged tour to India since readmission, Cronje The following season, a shepherd boy from the Eastern Cape called Makhaya Ntini was forced on Cronje in a home series against Sri Lanka. The pressures he faced were unique, the erosion slow and cumulative. It had reached a moral degree zero, with Cronje holding the compass. Cricket, a sport of boundaries both actual and moral, had, under Cronje's perverting touch, revealed itself to be effectively boundary-less. Then, a handwritten confession and a teary press conference in Durban in April 2000, ahead of an ODI series against Australia. "His view was, 'If we do get back into international cricket I'm going to be ready.'" Weeks later he found himself in Barbados, as understudy to skipper Wessels, for "Nobody ever doubted for one second that he was the right choice for captain," Cronje's former headmaster, Andre Volsteedt, told a BBC Wessels remained captain for the tour of England in 1994, the first to that country since readmission. Career. Cronje became the go-to man for young and old Afrikaners alike; he also became a figurehead for all that was perceived as good in the fragile post-apartheid consensus - a new man for a new age. The Delhi court has asked Chawla to provide his handwriting and voice sample to the police.The below quiz helps you discover the only Indian who was a part of an ODI World Cup winning squad without playing even one game.Chawla faces charges of match-fixing in a case filed nearly two decades ago.June 1, 2018 marked the 16th death anniversary of Hansie Cronje.Chahal is the new entrant in the list after he registered his career-best figures in ODIs.He has been at his best both with the bat and ball in the on-going Tri-series.Here are 10 prominent names who faced life bans in cricket.Sachin Tendulkar also said that he avoided facing late Hansie Cronje.
The selectors were suddenly worried: Out of his comfort zone in England, Cronje looked troubled. "We were bowled out for 180-odd in our 45 overs," recalls Parsons with a chuckle. Hansie, by contrast, was part of a dominant Afrikaans-speaking side in his final year at school 30 years later. Was he the right man to take over from Wessels?They dealt with their unease about Cronje and others - like Andrew Hudson - both adroitly and with a touch of expedience: by sacking Mike Procter, the coach. ... Hansie Cronje. It was a view encouraged when, shortly after Cronje had scored his maiden ton, Nelson Mandela was released from Paarl's Victor Verster prison on February 11, 1990. By the time the team toured again, playing in the Wills Triangular in Pakistan with the hosts and Australia, a new gaffer was driving the team bus. Cronje accepted the gift of a cell phone while on that second tour, and unbeknownst to him, his conversations with illegal Indian bookies were taped. Full Name: Wessel Johannes Cronje: Born: 25 September 1969 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa Here was uncharted territory, but his was also a career conducted almost exclusively in the glare of public opinion. The question became too painful to be asked, even thought, in the wake of Hansie Cronje's death in a plane crash in June 2002. Hansie Cronje CricketWeb profile.