lack of evidence against them. In 2000, the Delhi Police intercepted a call between a bookie and the South African captain, Hansie Cronje, which is reckoned as the beginning of a storm that swept the very soul of international cricketThree other South African players players, Pieter Strydom, Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje also came under the radar of fixing matches. Cronje admitted to accepting a sum of $10,000 - $15,000 from a bookmaker for providing information and ‘forecasting’ results, and
that they were offered money either to give information or to play badly and lose the game. In 1998 the Australian Cricket Board accepted that Mark Waugh and Shane Warne had given information of the pitch and weather to certain bookies and in 2000 Hansie Cronje’s admission to passing on information to a bookie for 10,000 dollars rocked the world of cricket and its belief.