Pieter Strydom
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Pieter Coenraad Strydom (born 10 June 1969 in Somerset East) is a former cricket
er. He played two Test matches
and ten One Day Internationals for South Africa in 2000 until he was caught up in the Hansie Cronje
betting scandal, but he was acquitted of those charges.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. He played two Test matches
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
and ten One Day Internationals for South Africa in 2000 until he was caught up in the Hansie Cronje
Hansie Cronje
Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje was a South African cricketer and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s...
betting scandal, but he was acquitted of those charges.