JOHANNESBURG — One of the cricketers who testified against disgraced former national cricket captain Hansie Cronje says he lied to the King Commission of Inquiry into the match-fixing saga in 2000, according to a report in the Sunday Times.
Report by Sapa
Henry Williams told the King Commission he had accepted an offer of $15 000 from Cronje to perform poorly in a one-day international against India in Nagpur.
According to the Sunday Times, Williams now claims that his testimony, and that of Herschelle Gibbs, was part of a conspiracy, involving their lawyers, to make a stronger case against Cronje.
Cronje was banned from cricket for life after admitting his involvement. He died in a plane crash in 2002. Williams and Gibbs were both banned for six months.
