2) The Hansie Cronje affair
Hansie Cronje was South African cricket’s icon in the 1990s. He was captain of the national team and seemed to embody everything that made South African cricket a success. But it turned out that Cronje had accepted payments from bookmakers in a match-fixing scandal that rocked the cricket world. Cronje gave up the captaincy in disgrace and was banned for life in 2000. South African cricket was left to lick its wounds. Cronje was killed in a plane crash in 2002.