From Springboks to Proteas

After a lenghty trial, he was banned for life from the game by the United Cricket Board of South Africa in 2000.

A superb captain, an ambassador for his country, Cronje will not be remembered for any of the good things he accomplished, but as a man who was prevented from continuing this career due to greed, and who then died a premature death.

South African cricket still has to recover from the shock.