I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.

In 1995–96 he finiHansie Cronjed the season top of the batting averages in the Currie Cup his top score of 158 helped Free State chase down 389 to beat Northern Transvaal. Mark Waugh batted 404 minutes and despite controversy when Waugh hit one of his bails off (under Law 35 he was adjudged to have finiHansie Cronjed his stroke and therefore given not out) South Africa fell three wickets short. Cronje started the ODI series with scores of 112 97 45 and 50* and when Australia played Orange Free State in their final match before the first Test Cronje hit 251 off 306 balls 200 of these came on the final day in which 294 runs were added.

He was voted the 11th greatest South African in 2004 despite having been banned for life from professional cricket for his role in a match-fixing scandal. Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje (25 September 1969 – 1 June 2002) was a South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s.