There was also the team meeting in India in 1996 during which Cronje tried to persuade his players to accept an offer of $200,000 (about £130,000) to throw a one-day international. It took four meetings for the offer to be rejected, meetings at which (I have been informed by those who were in it) the essential distinction between right and wrong became blurred. One player asked, in all seriousness, whether the money would be taxed. Bob Woolmer, the coach at the time, was quoted as saying that he thought it was a sign that his team had finally "come of age" on the world stage, now that they were receiving the same kind of offers as other top teams. Thank God England were crap.
- Mike Atherton
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article4068535.ece
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