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This is an archive article published on June 28, 2004

145;Boje, Gibbs will tour India146;

Even as the editor of a leading South African newspaper called the cricket authorities to hand over Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje to the I...

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Even as the editor of a leading South African newspaper called the cricket authorities to hand over Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje to the Indian police, a top board official has said that the two players would 8220;certainly8221; tour India later this year.

United Cricket Board of South Africa president, Ray Mali, has reportedly said that negotiations were on with the Indian cricket board and although he could not reveal more, he could 8220;guarantee8221; that both Gibbs and Boje would be part of the team that will visit India for a two-Test series in October-November this year.

8220;Both will certainly make the tour to India. We cannot disclose at this juncture what we are negotiating with the Indian cricket board but I can guarantee you that both will be available for the tour,8221; Mali was quoted as saying in the Pakistani daily The News today.

Meanwhile, Barney Mthombothi, editor of the Durban-based Sunday Tribune, made the call for Gibbs and Boje to face justice in his special column today under the headline, 8216;Slaying the ghost of Cronje8217;s folly8217;.

He said, 8220;It the UCB wants an assurance from its Indian counterpart that Gibbs and Boje who were implicated in the Cronje scandal will not be arrested should they set foot in India.

8220;In other words, the UCB wants the Indians to intervene with the criminal justice system to save our players from their own folly. What kind of madness is this? Or is the UCB implying this is how things are done in South Africa?8221;

The Delhi Police blew the lid on the match-fixing scandal in 2000 when it caught Cronje in conversation with bookies over a cell phone.

 

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