Henry Williams leaves court after testifying in 2000. Pic/AFP

Cronje received a life ban from the United Cricket Board of South Africa in 2000 after admitting he had accepted $100,000 (75,000 euros) from Indian bookmakers and offered other players money to under-perform. He died in a plane crash two years later. Williams and Gibbs were fined and banned for six months.

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The duo’s then-lawyers Mike Fitzgerald and Peter Whelan called the claim “outrageous”, though they knew about foul play in the
testimony.

“Mike Fitzgerald and I knew all along that Herschelle (Gibbs) was lying,” said Whelan, adding that he’d tried to pressure Gibbs into coming clean. Gibbs declined to comment.u00a0