On at the present time in 2002, worldwide cricket witnessed a tragic day with the sudden dying of Hansie Cronje, the previous South African captain, in a airplane crash.The world remained aghast when the information of Cronje (aged 32-years), one of many world’s finest skippers, poured in. He was in the AirQuarius cargo flight that crashed on Cradock Peak in the Outeniqua mountain vary.
It has been 19 years because the unlucky incident that lower brief Hansie’s life in the wee hours of a Saturday morning.
In 2000, 2 years earlier than his unlucky dying, Cronje had confessed to match-fixing in entrance of the King’s Commission, which led to his lifelong ban from cricket.
According to media studies, Cronje had missed a flight (on Friday night of May 31, 2002), as he was late from a enterprise assembly in Swaziland.
It was alleged to be the transport again to his house on Fancourt property, a luxurious golf resort at George in the Western Cape.
His former secretary at Bell, Pam Jooste, had talked about that since Cronje needed to take an pressing detour to the workplaces of Bell Equipment, the place he labored as an account supervisor since his cricket-ban; it prompted the delay. This was a firm that handled earth-moving equipment.
Cronje appeared stressed and apprehensive at having missed the flight and seemed for various preparations. Pam’s assertion recorded that Cronje had requested if anybody wanted espresso on that freezing chilly day.
Soon, the ex-skipper had discovered a method to return house in a small constitution airline AirQuarius. But it allowed solely solo passengers in its cargo airplane.
Hansie had a prior long-standing association with AirQuarius and he didn’t need to pay for the (1500-mile) journey to fulfill his spouse Bertha. In trade for the free journey, the pilots lodged in the wing of his home in a single day.
The airplane crashed and that deadly flight took away Cronje’s life.
The information reached nonetheless, through the afternoon on June 1, 2002. Many theories of homicide directed to his dying surfaced quickly after his dying.
He handed away mockingly at a time when he was on the verge of revamping his life.
Cronje was undoubtedly a nice, charismatic chief whose one lapse of judgement value him his profession.It was underneath Cronje’s captaincy that the South African group revived its type in worldwide cricket in 1991.He was solely 24 when he led his group towards Australia.
He was the fourth highest ranked captain in Test historical past. Under his profitable management South Africa noticed 27 victories in 53 Tests.
In 2000, he had hit six centuries, scored 3,714 runs at a mean of 36.41, towards India. He was deemed to be one of many world’s most interesting gamers of spin bowling.
The South Africa skipper, a religious Christian is fondly remembered by many as a implausible, enthusiastic group mate, supportive captain.
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