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Durban, May 31: Former South African spinner Pat Symcox has hinted that match-fixing might have taken place under his ex-captain Hansie Cronje and that he (Cronje) was skating on thin ice’.
Perturbed over the scandal, Symcox went as far as to say “you won’t be surprised when one of these days Cronje’s body will be floating down this ocean tied to a pile of bricks… because he was about to bring down a 32 billion Rand industry in cricket,” he told participants on the last day of the Mercury Million Golf classic near here on Tuesday.
In a candid admission on reported attempts to fix a one-dayer in Mumbai on an offer from an Indian bookie, Symcox said “I was one of the players who said we should take it but then we had Andrew Hudson, Rev Hudson, who warned us we would be making a big mistake. This offer was then rejected”.
“But on hind sight one wonders how much of this sort of thing has been going on,” Symcox said on Wednesday.
He said he would be giving his full testimony to the commission of Inquiry under Judge Edwin King soon.
Meanwhile, according to a report in the Mercury newspaper here, England captain Nasser Hussain may be summoned to testify before the commission to clear up a few loose ends’ surrounding the rain-affected fifth Test between South Africa and England in January this year.
