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(21 Jun 2000) STORY English/Nat Disgraced South African cricket captain, Hansie Cronje, has confessed he omitted information from a previous affidavit about his alleged involvement in bribery and match-fixing. The admission came on Wednesday during Cronje's cross-examination by an inquiry team investigating corruption in South African cricket. Cronje gave evidence at the inquiry despite warnings from his psychiatrist earlier in the day that Cronje was suffering from clinical depression. The fallen South African cricket captain testified that he had received the equivalent of 1.3 (m) million U-S dollars in legitimate endorsements and sponsorships since 1995. It's already known - from a previous confession - that as well as this 1.3 (m) million, Cronje took about 100-thousand (100,000) U-S dollars in bribes. Cronje made this latest disclosure about his earnings on Wednesday, during a commission probing corruption in South African cricket. He told the commission he had earned a handsome salary and performance bonuses since becoming a professional cricketer in 1992, and boosted his wealth through astute property and stock market investments. The details of Cronje's personal fortune raised questions as to why the golden boy of South African cricket ruined his career and reputation by taking bribes that amounted to only a small fraction of the money he was making legitimately. Cronje said only that he had wished he had acted differently. Hansie Cronje was previously one of South Africa's most popular sporting heroes so the discovery he had taken bribes sparked the country's worst sporting crisis. In an opening statement before the commission last Thursday, Cronje admitted receiving bribes or gifts on four separate occasions between 1996 and this year, but denied ever throwing a match or influencing its outcome. Since Thursday the commission has been on a five-day break. When they resumed, on Wednesday, Cronje's psychiatrist, Dr Ian Lewis, said the disgraced cricketer suffered from seven or eight of the nine symptoms normally associated with depression. He said Cronje's symptoms include a sense of worthlessness, loss of appetite, insomnia and thoughts of death. Cronje testified that he had omitted to disclose a 3,000 rand (400 U-S dollars) gift he received from alleged bookmaker Marlon Aronstam for correctly predicting a score during a match between South Africa and India. The fallen cricketer also testified that former Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin had introduced him to a bookmaker called Mukesh Gupta during a 1996 tour to India, and said former Pakistani captain Salim Malik appeared to be aware of a conversation he had had with another gambler about possibly fixing a match in 1995 During cross-examination on Wednesday, however, Cronje said he had no proof other players were party to match fixing. Azharuddin and Malik have hotly denied allegations that they took bribes or were involved in match fixing. But Malik was banned from the sport earlier this year following a Pakistani judicial inquiry that linked him to match fixing. The commission has to assess whether the cricketer has told the whole truth to determine whether he qualifies for amnesty from criminal prosecution under a deal struck with the state prosecutor. When Cronje was asked whether his first statement (in the form of a letter on 11 April) was an attempt to come clean totally, Cronje admitted it wasn't. The inquiry team must present interim findings by the end of the month. SOUNDBITE: (English) SUPER CAPTION: Dr Ian Lewis, Psychiatrist SOUNDBITE: (English) Hansie Cronje SOUNDBITE: (English) Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...