The five men and seven women on the jury had a two-day break to attend appointments postponed because of the marathon eight-week trial.
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The jury in Chris Cairns’ perjury trial in London has still not reached a verdict and has stopped deliberations until Monday morning.
The court did not sit on Wednesday and yesterday.
Cairns is facing one charge of perjury and one of perverting the course of justice, Fitch-Holland the latter charge only.
But if they convict Cairns of perjury, the jury can then turn their attention to the perverting the course of justice charge laid against both men.
The retired cricketer won £90,000 from the libel case, but he allegedly lied to the court when he said he had “never, ever cheated at cricket”.
The judge, Justice Nigel Sweeney, said today he will accept a majority verdict of either 10-2 or 11-1.
Mr Vincent told the court that Mr Cairns had approached him to suggest he deliberately play badly for Chandigarh Lions and said he had helped to fix matches under “direct orders” from Mr Cairns, which the defendant denies.
Cairns, along with his friend and former “legal adviser” Andrew Fitch-Holland, also faces a second charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice in seeking a false witness statement from the self-confessed match-fixer Lou Vincent.
In 2010, Modi used a social media account to accuse Cairns of fixing a game in the now defunct Indian Cricket League, a rival Twenty20 competition to the IPL in 2008.
The jury has heard evidence from a host of former cricket stars, including Vincent, former New Zealand captains Brendon McCullum and Daniel Vettori, Chris Harris, Andre Adams and Australia’s Ricky Ponting.
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Modi tweeted that Cairns had been involved in match-fixing in the rebel Indian Cricket League.
