Cairns pocketed over 250000 Dollars for match-fixing

The wife of Chris Cairns has been accused in court of lying to help her husband, who is on trial in London accused of perjury.

Ms Cairns on Thursday told the court she did not hear that conversation.

Asked whether he had asked his former employers to give evidence on his behalf, Cairns replied that everything that had happened to him in the intervening years had made him “toxic”. They had declined and he understood why people did not want to support him.

Cairns said Mr Justice Bean, the judge at the libel trial in 2012, was not “overly flattering” of Mr Beer’s work. “You had a very fat piece of the pie”, Wass said.

“I’m going to suggest it was a reward for your part in fixing matches”, Wass said. Wass said nine, Cairns three.

She recalled a dinner at a Thai restaurant in Manchester in June 2008, when she had only been in the country for 10 days, organised by Stu Law who was the captain of the Lancashire cricket team.

Chris Cairns is accused of perjury and perverting the course of justice during his 2012 libel case against Lalit Modi.

Current Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum, former captain Daniel Vettori, Mr Vincent, Mr Cairns and former Australia cricket captain Ricky Ponting have all given evidence so far. However, both have denied the charges.

Cairns disputed most things with the acerbic QC, right down to whether the quality of a video link with witness Andre Adams was good (Cairns) or poor (Wass).

Wass said as she opened her cross examination at London’s Southwark Crown Court. She told the jury Vincent told her that handing over a “big scalp” to the ICC would help him escape punishment for his own corrupt activity. Why so many would align themselves against him?

“That was my answer”, Cairns replied.

When the lawyer asked for “a simple yes or no answer”, and Cairns refused to comply, Wass asked: “Are you trying to make this cross examination last for weeks and weeks?”

“Is it a case of you not having an answer?”

Wass said that Cairns was receiving money to fix matches in India.

Ms Wass then asked: “Do you agree that perfectly reasonable sane people do not make up false allegations without a motive?”

When Cairns never answered, she pressed on.

She told the court she went to England several months later to give their relationship a go, and denied previous evidence that Cairns discussed match fixing in front of her.

“You have been accused not once of match fixing, not twice, but on three separate occasions”.

She portrayed Cairns as a “very confident man” who had openly boasted about match-fixing, saying in the presence of Adams “how will they ever get anyone, how will they prove it?”

Cairns said the context of that discussion was a plea to get the ICL sanctioned, so that match-fixing could be wiped out of the tournament.

She told the court she wasn’t sure exactly how much Cairns was earning, but believed “he was paid well”.

So did that of his Chandigarh Lions team-mate, Dinesh Mongia.

Asked whether this was to “fiddle” his tax affairs, Cairns agreed.

“Not fair at all”, he responded.

Ms Cairns rejected that suggestion telling the jury, “I have no motive to lie, I have no reason to lie”.