Hansie Cronje

After a year during which his public appearances have been marked by tears and various degrees of contrition, Hansie Cronje betrayed anger for the first time on Tuesday at a press conference in which he claimed to have answered all outstanding

Former South African captain Hansie Cronje on Monday refuted suggestions that he had not made full disclosure of his financial affairs to the King commission of inquiry

Hansie Cronje's bid to rehabilitate himself, at least in the eyes of the South African public, gathered pace on Monday as indications of a carefully-plotted strategy to diminish the effects of his life ban from cricket continued to emerge

While Hansie Cronje's lawyer has hailed the final report of the King Commission of Inquiry into cricket match-fixing as some kind of vindication, the fate of the disgraced former South African captain still remains unclear

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

Although Justice Edwin King refuses to discuss the matter ahead of his final report into match-fixing and corruption, it seems unlikely that he will recommend the scrapping of the indemnity against prosecution offered former South African captain

The future of the King commission of inquiry into match-fixing and corruption in cricket was clouded in doubt on Monday when Justice Edwin King cancelled the next sitting of the commission scheduled for February 19

Hansie Cronje has asked the high court in South Africa to rescind his life ban from cricket

The King Commission of Inquiry into match-fixing will resume its public hearings at 10am on January 25, according to a media release issued on Monday

The 4pm deadline given to the United Cricket Board by lawyers for Hansie Cronje came and went on Tuesday with no sign that the UCB intends to review or reconsider the life ban it intends to impose on the disgraced former South African captain

At the start of April this year no one in cricket would have believed it possible, but for Hansie Cronje the door to the game finally and conclusively slammed shut on him on Wednesday when the United Cricket Board announced that he had been banned

Hansie Cronje has been banned for life by the United Cricket Board of South Africa

PRESS STATEMENT Wednesday 11 October 2000 The following resolution was passed by the General Council of the United Cricket Board of South Africa on October 4 2000

Nelson Mandela and Hansie Cronje have met up as the result of a request by the disgraced former captain of South Africa

The slur of match fixing having disgraced the princely game of cricket, strict disciplinary measures are on the cards to put an end to it

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

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

However much money Hansie Cronje earns from assorted interviews and book deals, at least some of it may have to be used to pay the legal costs of his former team-mates

Released just 15 hours after Hansie Cronje set about rebuilding his tattered public image with the enthusiastic co-operation of subscription television channel M-Net, the interim report of the King commission of inquiry presents an entirely different