Brendon McCullum: Chris Cairns Asked Me To Spot-Fix Matches

Chris Cairns talked openly about match-fixing at a dinner in 2008 with a group of New Zealand cricketers, a London court has been told.

Adams, played for the Kolkata Tigers in the ICL, while perjury-accused Cairns was captain of the Chandigarh Lions in the same rebel competition.

The 34-year-old was giving testimony in the ongoing trial of Cairns, in which the latter has pleaded not guilty to one count of perjury and perverting the course of justice in relation to a successful libel case. How will they get anyone? “How will they prove it?”

Former teammate Andre Adams has given evidence about a Black Caps night out in India. They were the day’s only witnesses.

New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has told a court he was approached by former global team-mate Chris Cairns to get involved in match-fixing.

In recalling the conversation with McCullum in 2009, Mills told the court, also via videolink: ” I was pretty gobsmacked with that information alone. He asked me if I knew anything about spot-fixing in cricket.

McCullum said he rejected the approach in a later phone call, saying “I wish I had said no straight away”. “I’m going to suggest you haven’t told the unvarnished truth”.

He replied he was unaware of the requirement, until Pownall raised it. He said he left the situation in McCullum’s hands.

“I’d describe him as a friend I looked up to and someone I trusted”, he said.

“It was more insinuated than anything else”.

“I guess I wasn’t as understanding of the rules then as I am now”. He added that he turned down the offers each time.

The court had earlier heard from Vincent that Fleming cornered him in the bar and accused him of being “dirty”.

“I didn’t want to rat on him, for want of a better term”.

Mr Pownall asked why Cairns, being aware of Vincent’s “brittle and flawed personality”, would have asked him to provide a statement of support for the libel trial.

Adams feared his long-term friend could “commit suicide or do something stupid” if exposed as a fixer.

Ms Wass later asked him if it had helped him professionally in his business interests as “Brand McCullum” to give evidence against Cairns in court.

Cairns asked McCullum if he knew “anything about spot fixing” and then Cairns had explained how it worked by manipulating outcomes within a match such as runs scored rather than the game result, and used diagrams that McCullum told the court were “quite thorough”.

These included a charity fundraising events and a game of golf with Mark Greatbatch, another former New Zealand cricket player.

He had stopped for a cigarette break at a service station when he recognized the former global players having a coffee together.

McCabe, a doctor, had gone to a Worcester cafe on the morning of June 11, 2008, when Cairns came in with a man he thought was McCullum.

McCullum said that Cairns had masked his income from spot-fixing by using it to buy property in New Zealand.

“Louie rang me up said “I’ve got a deal, something you should look at”, said Adams.