CAPE TOWN, JUNE 22: Depressed former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje said on Thursday his overwhelming greed for easy money from bookmakers blinded him to the immorality of his actions.``I didn't see the bad side of it at the time. Until April 7, I didn't realise that I had been playing with such big fire,'' he said on the second day of cross-examination at judge Edwin Kings's Government inquiry into match-fixing.Cronje, diagnosed by psychiatrist Ian Lewis as clinically depressed, admitted last week to taking close to $100,000 in bribes from bookies but denied fixing any matches.Today he admitted that a further $30,000 paid into his Bloemfontein savings account in January 1997 might also have come from Indian match-fixer Mukesh Gupta, known as MK.``I assume it was from Gupta,'' he said. ``But huge sums of money do go in and out of your account, especially when you are on tour.''He said he had been driven to take the money by sheer greed, adding he was ashamed of the disgrace he had brought on himself, his family, his former team mates and the sport and the country he loves.``I don't feel good about what I have done. I don't feel good that there has been dishonesty in cricket,'' he said.
