I think it wasn’t handled properly and there wasn’t enough guidance. “I think the whole thing was blown out of proportion. Hester, understandably, was more emotional. (Read | India pacers matched South Africa’s vaunted attack: Ex-bowling coach Eric Simons)
So when he actually did something that was totally out of character, that’s what made it so massive in the public eye,” Gordon said, trying to put things in perspective. “He was such an icon as a clean-living, religious, almost a do-goody.
(HESTER PARSONS )Ĭricket world has gone on to witness many more match-fixing allegations but no player probably paid a dearer price than Hansie, being banned for life and then dying so mysteriously. Hansie Cronje with his wife Bertha Cronje. So it’s almost like it will never go away,” said Gordon who was playing as overseas player under Hansie’s captaincy at Free State when he met Hester. “What hurts is that when somebody is caught for match-fixing, Hansie is in the headlines. When the family does get together, there is a missing chair,” said Gordon Parsons, Hester’s husband and bowling coach at Highveld Lions. “Not too often we don’t still think about him. I am tired of old photos,” Hester said in an interview, voice almost choking, from Potchefstroom where she is a teacher and cricket coach. (Read | South Africa’s Temba Bavuma ruled out of final Test against India)Īnd while his death had left behind a lifetime of memories and treasured family photographs, it’s just not enough at times. Moving on from the defamation and the intense media scrutiny has been hard but harder has been the reality that their Hansie isn’t around anymore. To his family, he remains the loved brother and son who all looked up to for help and guidance but left at a time least expected. To the world, Hansie Cronje was that shrewd South African captain who stopped at nothing to win till the match-fixing scandal caught up to him. Cronje was banned from cricket for life due to his role in a match-fixing scandal in 2000.(Hester Parsons) ( SOUTH AFRICA vs INDIA FULL COVERAGE) An old image of Hansie Cronje, former South Africa captain, with his sister Hester Parsons. That’s the biggest question haunting her ever since Hansie died in a mysterious plane crash on June 1, 2002. It’s a sight that makes his sister Hester Parsons, ‘Sissy’ to Hansie, wonder how he would have looked if he had been alive now. Every June 1, Hansie Cronje’s closest friends gather at the wall of remembrance at Grey College where his ashes have been laid to rest, to have a Coke and a doughnut.
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