‘All the names I had ever heard as foremost in the game met together, drinking, card-playing, betting and singing at the Green Man,’ said the player. The Green Man and Still became a parcel office for the London and North-Western Railway. When Delhi police released the Cronje tapes, recorded during the Pepsi one-day series in March 2000, Chawla was a key figure. A sample from those tapes reads as follows:Sanjay Chawla: ‘Is [Pieter] Strydom playing?’Hansie Cronje: ‘Yes he is playing. Cronje: OK. Not so early in the first five or six in the Indian innings.’Chawla: ‘Yeah.’Cronje: ‘OK.’On the basis of such evidence Cronje was banned for life in October 2000, following South Africa’s King Commission.

Source: The Nation April 22, 2021 01:52 UTC