SOUTH African wicketkeeper Mark Boucher and all-rounder Lance Klusener told the King Commission of inquiry on Monday that Hansie Cronje approached them with an offer to throw a match. The two Proteas stars said that they and all-rounder Jacques Kallis were sitting in an hotel room in March 2000 just beforee the second Test against India in Bangalore when Cronje jokingly said that there had been an offer to throw the match. Boucher said that he and Klusener had prepared too much pasta and were looking for someone to share it with when Cronje entered the room and told them about the offer. “We dismissed it at the time I thought it was a joke,” said Boucher. Klusener confirmed Boucher’s account, but said that he knew nothing of the allegations against Cronje as he was out of the country at the time, and only returned before the one-day series against Australia. Klusener also denied that he gave information to New Delhi police on Cronje’s alleged involvement in match-fixing. Boucher said that he had met opening batsman Herschelle Gibbs before the Commission got underway and told him that it is against the law to lie.