5 match fixing incidents that shocked cricket fans

#3 The Chris Cairns story

Cairns arriving for one of his court hearings

Chris Cairns, a New Zealand legend, was alleged to have tried to fix games during his time with Chandigarh Lions in the Indian Cricket League(ICL), by an investigation conducted by the ICC.

Former New Zealand opener, Lou Vincent accused Cairns of approaching him to fix matches. Brendon McCullum also told the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) of Cairns coaxing him into fixing. Cairns, however, insisted that he did not fix any match.

In 2012, Cairns even successfully sued Lalit Modi, who had accused him of match-fixing via Twitter in 2010. He was acquitted of charges of perjury on November 30, 2015. The court had heard that Cairns was paid more than $250,000 by Vijay Dimon, a diamond firm run by Vijay Shah and his son, Vishal Shah. Cairns had met Vishal at a charity cricket event. Cairns said the money was to set himself up in Dubai for a career post cricket.

As Cairns repeatedly denied the suggestions, the prosecutor added, “You had a piece of the pie, didn’t you? You had a very fat piece of the pie.” to which Cairns replied, “I was trying to create a career post-cricket, trying to become involved in their business.”