King panel report rejects Cronje's claim

JOHANNESBURG, AUG. 25. The interim report of the King Commission of Inquiry into match-fixing released here today rejects the disgraced South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje's contention that he was merely ``spinning along'' an Indian bookmaker.

In the 66-page report on public hearings into the Cronje scandal, Mr. Edwin King says it was apparent from Cronje's first meeting with bookmaker Sanjay Chawla early this year that the bookmaker wanted nothing less than for the captain ``to lose matches and to get other players to assist him in this''.

``These facts... are not readily reconcilable with the notion of Cronje spinning Sanjay along'' as he had repeatedly protested, the report says.

- AFP

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