/ 10 May 2000

FORMER COACH NOW DOUBTS CRONJE

FORMER South African cricket coach Bob Woolmer has joined the ranks of the sceptics in the Hansie Cronje betting scandal. Cronje was sacked as national captain last month after admitting taking money from a bookmaker for providing information. Writing in The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday Woolmer said he had initially defended Cronje. “I now feel betrayed and my suspicions against him have hardened,” Woolmer said. Cronje has denied involvement in match-fixing.