Following are excerpts of an official Indian police transcript released
here Friday of alleged conversations between South African cricket skipper
Hansie Cronje and an Indian charged with match-fixing:
The transcript was released as Indian police announced they had
levelled charges of match-fixing and criminal conspiracy against Cronje,
his teammates Herschelle Gibbs, Nicky Boje and Pieter Strydon, as well as
two Indian businessmen, Sanjiv, alias Sanjay Chawla and Rajesh Kalra.
Sanjay: Is Strydom
playing?
Hansie: Yes, he is playing, Yeah.
Sanjay: Boje?
Hansie: Boje is playing.
Sanjay: Yeah, Boje is playing ...
and who is playing? Gibbs?
Hansie: Gibbs and myself
Sanjay:
Ya, what about anybody else?
Hansie: No, I won't be able to get
more.
Sanjay: You won't be able to get more.
Hansie: No.
Sanjay: Okay just tell me. But you have only four with you and not
anybody else?
Hansie: No.
Sanjay: Klusener and no one?
Hansie: No. No. Impossible. Impossible.
Hansie: No-No. They
were saying that they were already doing Cochin. The other guys are
already angry with me because I have not received their money you
know.
Sanjay: No. But I told you, I have already given
him altogether 60.
Hansie: Okay
Sanjay: And tomorrow I can
deposit the money in your account. It is not a problem because of the time
difference. Tomorrow itself I can deposit the money.
Hansie: Okay
Hansie: Okay, I have spoken. Yes everything is fine. Spoken to
Gibbs and to Willams and Strydom. Everything is fine.
Sanjay: Already okay. And how many runs for Gibbs?
Hansie:
Less than twenty.
Sanjay: Less than twenty?
Hansie: Yeah.
Sanjay: Okay. So everything is according to plan. They have to
score at least 250?
Hansie: Yeah.
Sanjay: And if you score
270, it is off?
Hansie: Okay. And financially the guys wants 25.
They want 25 each.
Sanjay: Alright, okay.
Hansie: So that's
75 for those three and ... what can you pay me? I do not know how much you
pay me...
Sanjay: You say.
Hansie: If you give me ... 140
for everybody
Sanjay: 140 altogether?
Hansie: Yeah
Sanjay: Okay, that's fine
Hansie: Okay
Sanjay: And
we will sort something out for the previous one as well
Hansie:
Okay sure
Sanjay: Yeah?
Hansie: Alright. So we definitely
are on
Sanjay: Okay and one last thing I want to ask you ... you
know just in case India bat first and if they get out for less than 250
and when you come into bat for the second innings, is it possible that you
could ask Gibbs to .... his wicket ... we will score him out and try and
score slowly and not so fast so that you know ... Maybe we can get out of
it.
Hansie: Okay
Sanjay: And just in case India is out for
less than 250 if they bat first
Hansie: Okay I will tell him
Sanjay: Yeah?
Hansie: I will tell him
Sanjay: And
because if he starts scoring so early then we won't be able to get out of
it
Hansie: Okay. Not so early for the first five or six in the
Indian innings
Sanjay: Yeah
Hansie: Okay