Chris Cairns (L) and Lou Vincent playing for New Zealand in 2001. Cairns successfully sued Modi for $US2.14 million after the Indian business mogul accused him of match-fixing on Twitter in January 2010.
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Vincent questioned on Tuesday whether that would be followed up during the current trial. Right, that’s good cover.
He said he suffered from depression and began taking cannabis.
Ex-Ramsbottom CC pro Lou Vincent insisted he was never going to report Chris Cairns for arranging outcomes while both played for the Chandigarh Lions in India. “Right, you’re working for me now'”. “That’s 100 per cent wrong”, replied Vincent. If you’re on TV they keep coming back. “You received not one penny piece?” “I didn’t expect to hear that”, he said.
“I’ve just got 10 runs off two balls, this is a disaster”, Vincent recalled thinking.
“Chris kept telling me that they were safe, that they all did it and that no one was going to get caught”.
Tuffey gave a statement in support of Cairns in the defamation case.
Tuffey is not a witness in the trial, nor has he been charged with an offence by cricket authorities.
Mongia also clarified that he had no issues against the two Kiwi cricketers and was surprised why they brought his name whenever there was something to do with the two of them.
He deliberately underperformed in four games in 2008 after Cairns allegedly agreed to pay him $50,000 (£32,500) per match.
Pownall also challenged Vincent’s assertion that Cairns would ask him to bowl in fixed matches because he had little skill in that area.
Vincent’s ex-wife Elly Riley told anti-corruption officials she confronted Cairns over his match-fixing in a Manchester hotel in 2008.
“It makes sense”, said Vincent.
Tuffey has repeatedly denied any involvement in match-fixing but Vincent has since confessed to several counts of fixing and been banned from the game for life.
Match-fixing was openly discussed by the quartet, said Vincent.
He asked about payments for match-fixing.
“Six people will tell the story in six different ways”, Vincent said.
No one has yet given a definitive date on when McCullum first told the ICC of the alleged approach by “Player X” in India in March 2008.
The ICC investigation was effectively subsumed by the police investigation and it is yet to release its findings. “He went for a swing and he nicked it”, Vincent claimed.
“Your goose was well and truly cooked”, Mr Pownall said.
Vincent is expected to finish giving evidence overnight.
Vincent started the day full of gusto, confidently joking in court, buoyed by the occasional laughs he was getting from the public gallery.
He also feared that photographs or film of the sexual encounter would be used to blackmail him.
Tuffey and Vincent played under the captaincy of Cairns at the Chandigarh Lions in 2008, in the unsanctioned Indian Cricket League.
Pownall accused Vincent of lying. According to him, a bookmaker called Varun Gandhi approached him in a hotel, offering him a bundle of cash and even the services of a prostitute.
When he arrived, there was no cricket equipment with Gandhi – but a woman.
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However, he also told the court how Cairns once turned on him and threatened him with a cricket bat after he “messed up” a fixed game.
