Between the second and third tests, the one-day tournament continued, now with Cronje as captain, South Africa made the final series but lost it 2—1 to Australia.

He became South Africa's second youngest Test captain, after Murray Bisset in —99, when he led the team for the third test at Adelaide but it was an unsuccessful start to his captaincy career as the series was squared.

In February , there was the return series as Australia toured South Africa. Despite this, Orange Free State lost the match.

In the first test at Johannesburg, he added another century as South Africa won by runs. This innings was the end of a day period in which he'd scored runs against the Aussies.

However, he failed to reach fifty in the next two tests and four ODIs as both series were drawn. There was another drawn series when South Africa toured England in Cronje scored only one century on the whole tour and scored only 90 runs in the three-test series.

In October , South Africa again came up against Australia in a triangular one day series also featuring Pakistan. Cronje scored runs at an average of Despite this, South Africa lost all their matches.

Cronje, who'd previously been vice-captain, was named as captain for the test series with New Zealand in — South Africa lost the first Test in Johannesburg but before the second test the two teams plus Pakistan and Sri Lanka competed for the Mandela Trophy , New Zealand failed to gain a win in the six match round robin stage while South Africa beat Pakistan in the final.

This changed the momentum as South Africa secured wins in Durban and Cape Town , where Cronje scored his fourth test century, he was the first captain since W.

Grace to win a three-match rubber after being one down. In early , South Africa won one-off tests against both Pakistan and New Zealand, in Auckland Cronje scored the only century of the match before a final day declaration left his bowlers barely enough time to dismiss the Kiwis.

In two one-dayers that followed, he took five wickets as South Africa comfortably won both. South Africa won the five Test series against England 1—0 despite Cronje struggling, scoring runs at However, he top scored in the one-day series that they won 6—1.

The —97 season featured back-to-back series with India. The first away was lost 2—1. The home series was won 2—0. In the six tests combined, Cronje managed one fifty.

Cronje produced better form against Australia, averaging over 50 in both test and ODI series although both were lost. He was so special to us.

The unanswered questions about Cronje's death are, for now, not preoccupying the Cronje family: they are simply trying to recover from the trauma of recent years.

We were all at Fancourt on the weekend of 1 June [the anniversary of Cronje's death], and it was good to see the family together again.

It was very emotional, especially for my parents. But it felt good. Hansie is in our thoughts all the time. I can't believe the amount of peace God has given me about his death.

It was his time to go, but it was great that he managed to accomplish some of the things he wanted to do, and correct some of his mistakes.

Frans Cronje is a committed Christian. He is a lay preacher and produces educational videos and DVDs with biblical themes. Hansie was also a self-proclaimed Christian, though many doubted the sincerity of his belief - as well as match fixing, there were allegations of serial adultery.

Cronje claimed to have been born again when he knocked over and killed a child while returning overnight from a provincial match in Natal in During his trial, he said he had been tempted by the devil: 'In a moment of stupidity and weakness I allowed Satan and the world to dictate terms to me.

The moment I took my eyes off Jesus my whole world turned dark. More than a year after his death, every cricketer who ever played with Cronje continues to defend him.

At the very least, they remain silent for fear of, as the Australian vernacular has it, 'pissing on a statue'. Yet the adulation that surrounds his memory is, on the whole, irrational.

Former opening bat Andrew Hudson, known throughout his career as 'Mr Sensible', sounds anything but that when talking about his former captain.

He was a South African icon. When reminded of the exact nature of Cronje's crimes, Hudson is resolute. He will be remembered that way.

We still haven't had those tapes from India. There's no hard evidence. How much evidence is needed when Cronje admitted his guilt and affirmed the truth of the tapes in which he was alleged to have discussed terms with Indian bookmakers, as well as his involvement with criminal elements?

Hansie was prepared to take the rap. To my mind, that's strength of character, even if he let an enormous amount of people down, including myself.

Even his lawyers were shocked when he admitted it. But, in the end, he did. Hudson believes Cronje is respected, even loved, because of what he achieved for South Africa.

There is huge bitterness out there, people saying he would never be pardoned for what he did. Some are going to grind that axe for a long time.

But forgiveness is not for the benefit of the people who have done the crime. Sometimes forgiveness is a way of letting go.

Professor Tim Noakes worked closely with the national team but Cronje was clearly resentful of his presence.

He was making it perfectly clear that he was in charge, in all matters. It was also an invitation for me to be dishonest - he was looking for my weakness, as he did with everyone.

I don't believe he was serious because he never followed it through, but if I had offered them he would have been in control of me, too.

He was always looking for the weakness in colleagues, friends and acquaintances in order to heighten his control over them. Noakes believes that Cronje suffered from a pathological condition called antisocial personality disorder.

South Africa in and he took a career-best five for 32 in the opening one-day international, won it with a six with three balls to spare, and conceded only 3.

That tour also proved he had the mettle for Test cricket. Going in in the second over at Port Elizabeth, he stayed eight and three-quarter hours balls until he was last out for , the first and highest of his six Test centuries.

When Donald took his match haul to 12 wickets, South Africa had their first Test victory of the new era. Cronje's second hundred, , came in Colombo the following September to set up South Africa's biggest Test win - an innings and runs - and Sri Lanka's heaviest defeat.

His good form initially held when, the youngest in the side at 24, he was Wessels's vice-captain in Australia in After Wessels broke a finger in the Sydney Test, Cronje took charge on the tense final morning to such effect that Australia, chasing for victory with six wickets in hand, were dismissed for ; his direct hit to run out Shane Warne from wide mid-off struck a crucial blow.

He also took over during the one-day tournament when further injuries forced Wessels home, and at Adelaide became South Africa's second-youngest Test captain, after Murray Bisset in But there was no fairytale: Australia won by runs to square the series.

Wessels was captain again when the two countries resumed hostilities in South Africa, and Cronje wasted no time extracting revenge for Adelaide.

In six games in 14 days, he hammered the Aussie bowling for runs: he began with from balls, the higher of his two one-day international hundreds, hit , his maiden double-hundred, for Orange Free State and finished with in the First Test, which South Africa won by runs.

The double-hundred - next highest score was Gerry Liebenberg's 39 - remained Cronje's best. This was a period of transition for Australian fast bowling, though.

Cronje was given a harder time in England in and managed only 90 runs in six Test innings as Devon Malcolm and the young Darren Gough exposed a technical weakness against short-pitched bowling directed at his ribs.

Spin gave him no such problems, and his armoury against it included a ferocious slog-sweep over mid-wicket, played on one knee. When he made what was then Test cricket's third-fastest fifty, off 31 balls at Centurion in , he reached it by hitting Muttiah Muralitharan, the world's best off-spinner, for off successive balls.

In , he expunged his unhappy introduction to English conditions by making 1, first-class runs at Among his four hundreds was against Somerset at Weston-super-Mare.

But it would take him ten Tests and until to reach 50 against England, whereupon he did so five times on the trot: 81 in South Africa's win at Lord's, 69 not out at Old Trafford, and 67 at Trent Bridge, and 57 plus a duck at Headingley, where England took the series with help from some inept umpiring.

He was South Africa's top-scorer, with runs at Instead of penetration he went for strangulation, setting defensive fields for his seam bowlers and encouraging them to bowl wide of off stump: what Bob Woolmer, South Africa's coach, called "aggressive containment".

Yet when Cronje succeeded Wessels in , and began the partnership with Woolmer that masterminded South Africa's tactics until the World Cup, he was welcomed as an adventurous captain; one prepared to gamble.

Grace to win a three-match rubber after being one down. When the teams met again at Auckland in March , Cronje's pre-lunch declaration, setting New Zealand to win in 63 overs, was the catalyst for South Africa's run victory.

Something saturnine in his demeanour, however, spoke of arrogance and calculated self-control; his dour expression suggested few concessions to humour or emotion.

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Cronje was not just a player; he was an ambassador to the sport. Debuting in the WC, Cronje was the sort of all-rounder, a captain would ideally like.

His first appearance in the WC yielded moderate results, but the talent was never in doubt. Bertha is the daughter of parents — Father Kosie Pretorius who is a retired math teacher and mother Elize Pretorius who reside in Bloemfontein.

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