SYDNEY, October 12: Disgraced former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje has to accept his life ban over match-fixing scandals, Australian skipper Steve Waugh said on Thursday.``I think people are getting sick of it all, but the good thing is the administration is doing something about it by giving punishment,'' said Waugh. ``He (Cronje) admitted he did a lot of things wrong and he has to take the punishment.``It's sad for cricket and sad for himself but someone had to be made an example of because it's been going around for too long,'' Waugh added. The United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA) on Wednesday announced it had served a life ban on Cronje, who has admitted receiving thousands of dollars from gamblers and bookmakers on five separate occasion between 1996 and 2000.The board said the ban extended to playing, coaching, marketing and administering the game.UCBSA president Percy Sonn said Cronje was now a ``personanon grata to South African cricket. That's the end of Hansie.''Waugh described Cronje as a ``good fella'' who could not resist the temptation of taking money from illegal bookies.``I don't know where it went wrong for him,'' he said. ``I always thought he played 100 per cent and gave his all for his country, but the money just got the better of him and he couldn't get out of it.Ban justifiedCALCUTTA: Former Test cricketers from the city said the life ban on South Africa's Hansie Cronje for his involvement in match-fixing was a fully justified.
