Cronje denies hiding account details from King inquiry

Hansie Cronje denied on Monday hiding information from the King commission into cricket match-fixing.

The former South Africa captain, banned from the game for life, was responding to an article in a London newspaper suggesting he could face jail over deposits into bank accounts in his name during his tenure as skipper.

The article, in the Sunday Telegraph, also said Cronje had declined to provide the investigators with information about properties he owned.

"I can tell you for a fact that the details of every single one of my bank accounts that I own was given to the King commission," Cronje said on Johannesburg radio station 702.

Cronje said the largest single amount listed as a deposit had come from the sale of his house in Bloemfontein, "And I don't know why I have to explain that to anyone," Cronje said.

Judge Edwin King was appointed to head an inquiry after Cronje became embroiled in the match-fixing scandal in April last year.

Cronje confessed to the commission he had taken $100,000 from bookmakers to provide information and was banned from the game for life by the United Cricket Board of South Africa.

Cronje plans to mount a court challenge to his ban at the Pretoria High Court from September 26 to 28.

Mail Cricket Editor