The demise of Hansie Cronje is, or seems, to be never ending, and there are a lot of prophets of doom suggesting that there is more to come. Fixing the outcome of a game is so heinous that it does not bear contemplation. Giving the state of pitch and weather is quite frankly an irrelevant detail. This has always been the appeal of the game. No wonder the betting men, the bookies etc, revelled in the variety of the game.
Many theories now abound on why betting and match-fixing for players can be seen as the norm.
Take for example 1996, the Mohinder Armanath one-day international. Yet, here, we were forced to play this game. Donald and Rhodes had gone home injured. Fanie De Villiers played with a temperature approaching 103 and the side was decimated. It would have been the easiest thing to do because we had virtually no chance any way.