In an extraordinary morning's testimony, United Cricket Board managing director Ali Bacher told the King commission that the World Cup matches between India and Pakistan and Pakistan and Bangladesh had been fixed, alleged that Pakistan umpire Javed

Ali Bacher broadened the scope and shifted the focus of the King commission on Monday, eventually charging that cricket was under threat from Mafia-style syndicates of unscrupulous bookmakers

Hansie Cronje's contract with the United Cricket Board was not terminated immediately after his early morning confession to UCB managing director Ali Bacher and sacking as captain in April, it has emerged

An offer of immunity from criminal prosecution made to Hansie Cronje will not preclude the United Cricket Board for taking disciplinary action against the former captain, a UCB spokesperson said on Saturday

South African seam bowler Henry Williams confirmed that he had been offered $15 000 by Hansie Cronje to bowl expensively in a one-day international in India earlier this year, the King commission of inquiry heard on Friday morning

The case against Hansie Cronje took a new twist at the King commission of inquiry on Friday when Pieter Strydom testified that Cronje had asked him to place a bet on the outcome of the Centurion Park Test match against England in January

After three days of dramatic revelations, the King commission slowed down on Friday afternoon as the Hansiegate hearings approached the weekend

Daryll Cullinan offered the bizarre view that the offer conveyed to the South African team by Hansie Cronje to throw a one-day match in Bombay in 1996 was a kind of moral test, the King commission heard on Thursday

Cape Town: Herschelle Gibbs' future in cricket hung in the balance on Thursday night after the 26-year-old South African opener had provided the King commission of inquiry with the most damning testimony yet against former captain Hansie Cronje

The King commission of inquiry played itself in slowly as it hearings into match-fixing got underway in Cape Town on Wednesday, but even before Justice Edwin King announced the first adjournment for lunch, Hansie Cronje's lawyers had hinted at which

Brian Basson, the United Cricket Board's director of playing affairs and umpiring, will be the first witness to give evidence when the King commission of inquiry into match-fixing starts its hearings in Cape Town on Wednesday

Kepler Wessels, the man who preceded Hansie Cronje as South African captain, has been dragged into a row with Justice Edwin King on the eve of a commission of inquiry into match-fixing in South African cricket

The King commission will still start its hearings on Wednesday, commission secretary John Bacon confirmed on Monday, but exactly who will open the batting remains to be seen

The King Commission of Inquiry into South African cricket is likely to call between 35 and 45 witnesses when its hearings start in Cape Town on June 7, commission secretary John Bacon said on Tuesday

The United Cricket Board is still looking for a director of coaching following its general council meeting in Johannesburg on Saturday

First things first

Terry Jenner's quest for the perfect legbreak may well have been fulfilled seven years ago when Shane Warne flummoxed Mike Gatting with his first delivery in Test cricket in England, but the search for the next great legspinner goes on

England captain Nasser Hussain, and not South Africa's Hansie Cronje, was the chief mover behind the declarations which provided a result to the fifth Test match at Centurion Park in January, the Johannesburg Sunday Independent claims today

Allan Donald will have the benefit of home-ground support when he takes a crack at the 300 wicket mark during South Africa's first home Test match against New Zealand this summer

South Africa's leading cricket grounds have been asked to submit applications to host the four most important matches of the 2003 World Cup