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Why did honest Hansie turn crooked Cronje?
Prem PanickerYou've got mail'.
With metronomic regularity, that message flashes on the computer screen here, throughout the day and far into the night.
It is an enormous, incredible outpouring. Of shock. Distress. Grief. Anger. And above all, bewilderment.
Why?, is the most commonly asked question. Why, in an age when cricketers are better paid than ever before, in an age when they make more money through endorsements and sponsorships than anyone ever imagined, would anyone want to do something so venal? Why Hansie Cronje, epitome -- or so we thought -- of all that is good and clean in the game of cricket?
The answer -- and let me state, right upfront, that this is not the whole answer, nor is it the only one; it is merely one answer that comes to my mind -- is 'opportunity'.
It is the one word, more than any other, that explains how criminals are created. Constant, in-your-face-and-won't-be-denied opportunity.
Before examining that word, that answer, though, let's spend a moment examining an answer that has been given, in the media in South Africa and in England, to name just two places.
That answer is that Hansie, poor chap, was so constantly harassed by those mean Indian bookies that he finally took the m
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Introduction
Abstract
For those not too familiar with the history of the game of cricket, George Robert Canning Harris, better known as Lord Harris, was a former test cricketer, a fine batsman and a finer administrator who did much to expand and popularise the game when international cricket was still in its infancy. Cricket has come a long way since then, with a thriving ecosystem powered by star appeal and is now played across all continents with permanent human habitat. The beginning, though, as in almost every sphere, was modest, while the first allusion to the game would come in far less sanguine circumstances.
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Notes
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Quoted by Michael Roberts in the article ‘Cricket as Global as Honourable’ in the book ‘In Essaying Cricket: Sri Lanka and Beyond’ edited by Michael Roberts. Colombo: Vijitha Yapa, 2006.
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More details in Sect. 1.3.
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More details in Sect. 1.4.
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