Remember Banjo?
Remember Hamid ‘Banjo’ Cassim, the key figure in the match-fixing scandal of 2000
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
Remember Hamid ‘Banjo’ Cassim, the key figure in the match-fixing scandal of 2000? Ajay Shankar, from The Indian Express, caught up with the 'Biltong man' in Pretoria.
Cassim quickly steers the subject to his “friends” in Indian cricket. “I have great respect for Kapil Dev. Paaji is my hero. How is Ajay Jadeja? He was a good friend. And Mohammed Azharuddin? He is a great guy, it’s unfortunate that everybody turned on him. I knew Ali Irani (former physio) very well too, I hope he is fine."
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo