More SA cricketers allege bribery

Two more South African cricketers have told the official match-fixing inquiry in Cape Town that they were offered bribes by the country's disgraced captain, Hansie Cronje.

Pieter Strydom and Henry Williams told the inquiry, now in its third day, that Cronje pressed them to play badly in matches during the South African tour of India earlier this year.

Strydom said he just laughed when Cronje offered him nearly twenty-thousand US dollars.

Yesterday another player, Herschelle Gibbs, said he accepted an offer of fifteen thousand dollars, but played better than he'd agreed, and did not receive any money. It was the exposure of Cronje's dealings with professional gamblers in India which led to his sacking as team captain and to the setting-up of the inquiry.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service