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Henry Williams' homecoming

Jan 17, 2013: Remembered for his part in the match-fixing scandal, the former South Africa bowler now mentors young cricketers and rears racing pigeons

South Africa news

Witness says he told fixing inquiry 'different story'

Jan 13, 2013: Henry Williams, the former South Africa bowler who was involved in the Hansie Cronje match-fixing case, has admitted he was never offered a specific amount of money to fix games but had told a different story to the King Commission in 2000

Ten years after Cronje

In the eye of the storm

Jun 26, 2010: We look at the names who made the news in cricket's biggest scandal

Under-19s World Cup 2007-08

South Africa name Under-19s squad

Jan 20, 2008: South Africa's selectors have stuck with the players tested during the recent home series against India and Bangladesh for the Under-19s World Cup in Malaysia

Cronje remains an outcast

Oct 17, 2001: With Hansie Cronje's life ban now confirmed by the Pretoria High Court, the right of cricket's governing bodies to administer cricket has been reaffirmed

Final King report handed to South African government

Jun 8, 2001: The final report from Justice Edwin King's commission of inquiry into match-fixing and corruption in cricket has been completed and handed over to the South African government, the United Cricket Board said on Friday

Williams shows his value for Boland against Griquas

Dec 8, 2000: The rain that destroyed a day's play of the third Test between South Africa and New Zealand in Johannesburg was in no mood to allow much more action at the Supersport Series game between Griqualand West and Boland

Benefit season for Henry Williams

Sep 27, 2000: The Boland Cricket Board have awarded Henry Williams a benefit for the 2000/2001 season as a reward for 10 years' loyal service to the province which dates back to the old SABC days

Cronje cashes in with SA under fire

Sep 1, 2000: It might not yet have occurred to Hansie Cronje, as he stashes away the cash from his latest round of interviews, but it is possible that he could still emerge as the man who plunged cricket into its gravest constitutional crisis since apartheid

Mixed reaction to bans on Gibbs and Williams

Aug 29, 2000: Reaction to the six-month bans imposed on South African players Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams on Monday ranged from condemnation of the sentences as being too harsh or too lenient to outright relief

Six-month bans for Gibbs, Williams

Aug 28, 2000: Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams were banned from international cricket until the end of this year on Monday, but they may have escaped harsher punishment because of the International Cricket Council's inability to promulgate and distribute clear

Gibbs and Williams plead guilty

Aug 19, 2000: Herschelle Gibbs, the South African opening batsman offered $15 000 by Hansie Cronje to throw his wicket away in a one-day international against India in March this year, will discover what remains of his cricketing career on August 28 or 29

Gibbs and Co wait on their fate

Jul 31, 2000: Herschelle Gibbs, together with South African team-mates Pieter Strydom and Henry Williams, may know their fate as far as international cricket is concerned within two weeks

Stick to the Plan - Henry Williams

Jun 9, 2000: South African seam bowler Henry Williams confirmed that he had been offered $15 000 by Hansie Cronje to bowl expensively in a one-day international in India earlier this year, the King commission of inquiry heard on Friday morning

Hansie offered me $15 000, says Gibbs

Jun 8, 2000: Cape Town: Herschelle Gibbs' future in cricket hung in the balance on Thursday night after the 26-year-old South African opener had provided the King commission of inquiry with the most damning testimony yet against former captain Hansie Cronje