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Former New Zealand Cricketer Lou Vincent Says He Was Ordered To Fix Matches

A "self-confessed cricket match-fixer" told a court on Monday that he tried to recruit Lancashire batsman Mal Loye to "underperform" during a county match in '08, according to David Brown of the LONDON TIMES. Lou Vincent said that he had been ordered by Chris Cairns, the former New Zealand captain, to approach Loye about fixing Lancashire's Twenty20 match against Durham. Vincent, a former New Zealand int'l, told Cairns' perjury trial at Southwark Crown Court that he had "tried to recruit" his former Lancashire teammate in '08. Vincent: "I said [to Mr Loye] listen you're not doing well, I know people who can pay us if we underperform. Mal was taken aback a bit and the conversation did finish pretty quick. He said he would have to think about it." Vincent, 36, claimed he began match fixing under "direct orders" from Cairns, who he described as his "role model," while they were both playing for the Chandigarh Lions in the Indian Cricket League. Vincent said, "I was under direct orders from Chris Cairns to get involved in fixing" (LONDON TIMES, 10/12). In London, Mike Dickson reported Vincent "painted a picture of himself as a troubled and vulnerable person" as his int'l career "petered out" in late '07, "turning to cannabis and alcohol." He alleged that those also involved in match-fixing included Indian Dinesh Mongia, Cairns, and New Zealander Daryl Tuffey. Shortly after arriving in Chandigarh he received a call from an Indian, Varun Gandhi. Vincent told the court, "He told me he was involved in a cricket bat company. We met in his hotel room but there was no equipment in the room." He said that there was a woman seated on the bed, and that after 20 minutes he asked if he could use the toilet and Gandhi followed him there, and told him that the woman "was available for sex." Vincent: "He pulled out a wad of American dollars, and said it was a sponsorship down payment, that's when alarm bells began to ring. I left that room knowing it wasn't a sponsorship deal" (DAILY MAIL, 10/12).

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