NEW DELHI, 6 December 2007 — South African cricketer Nicky Boje is to be questioned by Indian police over his alleged role in a match-fixing scandal in 2000, a police spokesman said yesterday.
The left-arm spinner, who has retired from international cricket, is currently in India playing in a breakaway Twenty20 competition in the northern Indian town of Panchkula.
No date has been fixed for Boje’s questioning, said Rajan Bhagat, the New Delhi Police spokesman.
“We are issuing a notice to Boje asking him to make himself available for investigation,” Bhagat told the Associated Press.
Fearing arrest by police, Boje and Herschelle Gibbs missed two tours to India after being implicated by Proteas captain Hansie Cronje’s admission that he’d taken money to influence matches in 2000.
Boje was found not to have acted illegally by South African cricket authorities.
However, Gibbs visited the New Delhi police headquarters for questioning during the South African team’s tour of India in 2006.
Gibbs has previously admitted accepting $15,000 to score fewer than 20 runs against India in a limited-overs international in 2000. He scored 74 in that match, but was banned by South African cricket authorities for six months.
