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Delhi Police on Monday named deceased former South Africa captain Hansie Cronje as accused in the infamous match-fixing case of the year 2000. No other cricketer has been named in the chargesheet apart from Cronje.
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Two other South African cricketers, Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje, were left out of the chargesheet because the police say they do not have enough evidence against them.
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Though names of several Indian cricketers had also cropped up in the scandal, including that of former India captain Mohd Azharuddin, no Indian cricketers are named as accused.
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It was a 13-year-old fixing case in which the Crime Branch of Delhi Police had revealed that an India-South Africa one-day international match played in March, 2000 was fixed. The police claimed that they intercepted phone conversations between London-based bookie Sanjeev Chawla and Cronje which suggested that money was exchanged to fix the match.
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Though Cronje initially denied the allegations, he later admitted before an enquiry commission that he took $15,000 to leak information about forecasts before the match after which he was banned for life. The disgraced SA skipper died in a helicopter crash in 2002.
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