Chris Cairns vs Lalit Modi - Cairns to sue Modi

[Aman]

McCullum should have been punished and Amir should have been banned for life.

If reporting an approach late is punishable, actually fixing should be a life ban.

Zero tolerance.

 

[Junaids]

From Wikipedia, the material actually seems to favor McCullum "On 13 December 2014, McCullum was named New Zealander of the Year by the New Zealand Herald beating out stiff competition from Lane Pilkington due to his continued co-operation with ICC over the match-fixing scandal which resulted in Chris Cairns being charged for lying to court".

If really McCullum did something wrong and it can be traced to a reliable source, then it should be added to Wikipedia.

McCullum is the source: it's his own sworn evidence in court which made a continuing international career impossible.

 

[sshakir411]

All fixing cases trace back to one country regardless of how many Pakistanis have been involved. If the said country wasn't so incompetent, Cricket could be a cleaner sport. But hey, who cares as long as it brings in the most revenue and turns a blind eye to the rampant corruption occurring in the backyard of its cities.

 

[Napa]

McCullum is the source: it's his own sworn evidence in court which made a continuing international career impossible.

Yes, I understand that he is the source. However, it appears that his role has been praised as evidenced by the award of "New Zealander of the Year" by the New Zealand Herald.

 

[shaz619]

Yes, I understand that he is the source. However, it appears that his role has been praised as evidenced by the award of "New Zealander of the Year" by the New Zealand Herald.

So if your bro kills a couple of people and only you know about it with rumours circulating about, it is all goody goody so long you host a public ceremony and give him an award

 

[Junaids]

[MENTION=142162]Napa[/MENTION]
McCullum carefully crafted an image as an honest man who blew the whistle on a fixer.

The problem was that his evidence didn't survive cross-examination by skilled barristers in court.

Quite the opposite: the entire case against Cairns was based on the testimony of NZ internationals Lou Vincent and Brendan McCullum.

But Vincent was already a self-confessed matchfixer. And Cairns's barrister got McCullum to completely discredit his own evidence by making it clear that his own behaviour was tantamount to a confession of Failure To Report, which carried a Minimum Five Year Sentence.

But hardly anybody was paying attention outside the court room.

 

[Savak]

[MENTION=142162]Napa[/MENTION]
McCullum carefully crafted an image as an honest man who blew the whistle on a fixer.

The problem was that his evidence didn't survive cross-examination by skilled barristers in court.

Quite the opposite: the entire case against Cairns was based on the testimony of NZ internationals Lou Vincent and Brendan McCullum.

But Vincent was already a self-confessed matchfixer. And Cairns's barrister got McCullum to completely discredit his own evidence by making it clear that his own behaviour was tantamount to a confession of Failure To Report, which carried a Minimum Five Year Sentence.

But hardly anybody was paying attention outside the court room.

To be honest it is hard to prove Match Fixing and spot fixing without audio, video evidence or a money trail showing funds received, transferred for certain act, defendants in court will have a field day trying to prove that the evidence fails to satisfy the standard "beyond a reasonable doubt".

The way Cairns has now gone into hiding that his legal troubles are over is very telling. If he was totally innocent and if the charges were fabricated, he would hold his head high in public and even fight to stay involved in the only thing he knows i.e. Cricket.

If someone accused me of a crime of which i know is completely fabricated, false, i would aggressively shout, scream in the media from the beginning to the end at every possible opportunity to proclaim my innocence. Cairns appears to have gotten away with it twice due to smart lawyers and legal loop holes and is clearly playing it safe knowing he will not get lucky the third time around.

 

[Hasan123]

[MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] is right Baz should have received some of punishment for failure to report an approach.

Disgraceful how this is forgotten.

 

[Junaids]

To be honest it is hard to prove Match Fixing and spot fixing without audio, video evidence or a money trail showing funds received, transferred for certain act, defendants in court will have a field day trying to prove that the evidence fails to satisfy the standard "beyond a reasonable doubt".

The way Cairns has now gone into hiding that his legal troubles are over is very telling. If he was totally innocent and if the charges were fabricated, he would hold his head high in public and even fight to stay involved in the only thing he knows i.e. Cricket.

If someone accused me of a crime of which i know is completely fabricated, false, i would aggressively shout, scream in the media from the beginning to the end at every possible opportunity to proclaim my innocence. Cairns appears to have gotten away with it twice due to smart lawyers and legal loop holes and is clearly playing it safe knowing he will not get lucky the third time around.

I'm not in any way defending Cairns. Let's just say that he used to be a hero of mine.

But there are two related problems.

Firstly, if Cairns is guilty then according to the evidence of McCullum, so is he.

Secondly, I know enough Aussie and Kiwi sportsmen - and their families - to know that they mainly view Indian T20 as money for jam, a sort of holiday with cricket that they don't take very seriously.

I think they NOW understand the risks of fixing, especially with Manohar running world cricket. But I think that previously they viewed ICL and IPL as a sort of fake American wrestling for simple and unsophisticated viewers, in which contrived matches were part of the game.

And that's how I think some former players got into this.