Herschelle Gibbs
Herschelle Gibbs even after his retirement is one of the most wanted men of Delhi Police. The union state police of Delhi once had grilled him for his suspected involvement in the 2000 match-fixing scandal in India after that South African captain Hansie Cronje died in an unfortunate plane accident while leaving India. Cronje admitted everything of match-fixing. So, he was the prime source. But, it was understood that Gibbs knew everything of Cronje’s murder and the plane crash was not an accident but it was a manufactured accident.
Delhi Police who were investigating the incident filed a criminal case against him and Indian cricketers Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja. But Gibbs still need Delhi Police’s persimmon before coming in India as he was afraid of them that they can book him.
Once Gibbs alleged that the Indian capital Police had intimated him with the threat of a death penalty, claims the South African batsman.
“Sir, you had better come clean. We still have the death penalty here,” Gibbs quotes a top Delhi Police official as telling him during interrogation.
He does not name the police officer in his controversial autobiography To the Point but describes him as “a tough-looking old Sikh gentleman who headed Delhi’s murder and robbery team”.
