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Klusener, Boucher tell of Cronje's money offers

All-rounder Lance Klusener and wicket-keeper Mark Boucher today joined the list of South African cricketers claiming they were approached by Hansie Cronje with an offer of a bribe.

Klusener and Boucher, while testifying to the King Commission in Cape Town, said they, together with all-rounder Jacques Kallis, had been approached by Cronje before the second Test of South Africa's tour in India in Bangalore in March.

Cronje told them there was an offer for them to make money during the game, but they had interpreted it as a joke and only regarded it seriously after Cronje was fired as captain in April after he admitted taking money from an Indian bookmaker.

Klusener testified about the offer conveyed to the team by Cronje to lose a match in Mumbai in 1996.

He said in hindsight it should have been dealt with immediately. "Whoever received the call should have said we would have nothing to do with it."

Klusener repeated denials of reports that he had "blown the whistle" on Cronje to the police in India and that he had a public fallout with Cronje in the lobby of a hotel in New Delhi.

"I can't recall any fallouts with him," he said.

Last week batsmen Herschelle Gibbs and Pieter Strydom and bowler Henry Williams told the Commission that Cronje had offered them money to underperform in matches against India this year.

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