Hansie Cronje
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"Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje" was a South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s. He died in a plane crash in 2002. He was voted the SABC3's Great South Africans/11th greatest South African in 2004 despite having been banned for life from professional cricket for his role in a match-fixing scandal.

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Hansie, apparently, genuinely feared for his own life and the lives of his family and wanted some professional security.

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

It's much bigger than a cricket story.

We didn't sleep last week -- we literally didn't sleep -- because we've been so busy with the book.

I missed him the most this birthday but maybe I'm just tired.

We have received numerous requests for the book from the UK and India and we hope to announce the release dates in those countries within this week.

The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.