Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread. (Part 2)

This whole thing fudgeing guts me. CC is a big part of why I liked cricket as a kid and why I ended up liking cricket today. This must be how Saffer fans felt after the Cronje scandal. It would be easier to take if it was just players like Vincent and Tuffey but Cairns was the first name on the teamsheet for years. Fudgeing NZ cricket, always finds a new way to emotionally damage fans.

Linky anyone? Would love to read it.

Cairns reckons he is being persecuted by people in the game because he has raised concerns about the health of the game in the past and is now paying the price for it. Discredits Vincent by saying he has been involved in fixing, and is trying to deflect blame to cairns for fixing games that he had no involvement in. 

Let the mud slinging begin! 

Also not sure if it is his real account. But a Cairns account (it does seem to be his, but isn't verified ) is trawling twitter threatening legal action. 

Still pissed off with Herald for front paging this during the fantastic partnership by Macca and Taylor as NZ cricket stars in match fixing wateva...

Next time they win an award the TV networks should find a scandal in The Howick Advertiser or something and lead with " Story Fabrication and Plagiarism Scandal engulfs a Leading North Island Newspaper"

On another tangent, I feel quite disappointed that parts of a confidential inquiry (e.g. McCullum's testimony) have been leaked to the British Press.

1. Because it must suck for McCullum to be outed as a nark regarding an old teammate
2. It doesn't give me a lot of confidence in the people running the inquiry (which I actually want to succeed)
3. It will probably make others who are considering giving evidence think twice about it

Lance Cairns's "dark forces" -

lol:

Chris Cairns ‏@chriscairns168  21m

Please change headline @ESPNcricinfo...not rejecting I am Player X...please read the quotes in your story, it's the allegations I reject...

Chris Cairns ‏@chriscairns168  11m

Thanks for all the support out there and to all those who understand that there are bigger forces at play here...chat soon...cheers

So he admits he is the guy that was talking to Vincent, McCullum etc. 

In other words, everybody is lying apart from Chris Cairns. 

#BiggerForces

He also tweeted a forum poster on here saying he would "take matters further" if he didn't apologise immediately for a tweet. Much lolz. 

One News... ,much wow!

Then sad.

This is a bit 'tin foil hat' but without anyone knowing how far the web actually spreads anything is possible...

What if Cairns is no where near the top and his involvement isn't as big on the scale of it all as it seems. If the fixing ring is run like the mafia then there could be no end to who is involved and who they could have control over. I'm talking ICC and ACSU. If these 'fixers' have involved/threatened peoples families (which has been suggested) they could gain control of nearly anyone. If they managed to infiltrate the ACSU, they could protect their 'employed' players and also 'out' who they want to (could explain the leaked ACSU info on Vincent/McCullum). Big name Indian players would be far more likely to be protected than a few Kiwi guys who no longer have any connection or incriminating information about the ring - unless that's what Cairns thinks will save him, the info he has about the ring leaders knowing they might be able to bargain. That's all very far fetched but who knows what's below the surface. The other end of the scale is Cairns is the center of it and it won't involve too many others but I don't think that will be the case. 

One News blah blah...

Also, Bob Woolmer's unexplained death....

This would answer a lot of questions about how we would always throw away winning positions.

So Cairns admits he is the guy they are talking about, but says the stuff they have said is made up? That's about where we sit right now?

Unfortunately, with cricket the way it is these days the dark forces argument probably has some legs. Who has most to gain from Cairns being outed? High up that list is Modi, while he isn't big in the BCCI these days I am sure he still has some very powerful friends in very powerful places. Most of whom would have had access to all of this. Are CC and LV being made scapegoats because they come from a relatively small cricket market? Would this stuff have been leaked if it was a group of English players or Indian?

People have done bad stuff. But cricket isn't a savoury place anymore so I don't have trouble believing the dark forces story.

Just remember everyone. Cricket is the game of gentlemen! (Tui Ad?)

Wake up sheeple!!!

I actually meant to quote and not endorse this. Fail.

I know (hope) you are joking but please remember we are talking about spot fixing which is completely different to match fixing. We throw away winning positions because we are garbage, end of.

https://best-of-youtube-conspiracies.tumblr.com/post/47547734691/deleted-youtube-video-refound-you-ever-heard

Watch this space. Next up a Youtube video exposing everything you wanted to know about cricket and bookies.......

[Do not take this seriously, its a conspiracey website]

One thing why I believe McCullum to be speaking the truth is that he is not even the slightest bit worried about repercussions, more that fact that his confidential testimony was leaked. Thus, because he did nothing wrong, he has nothing to be worried about.

I think the conspiracy theory stuff has a lot of merit personally. A couple of times previously little things have happened in isolation which hint at the reach of these matchfixing syndicates, and given the money in the game in South Asia and the levels of corruption there it would be naive to assume that the only people connected to the game who are involved are a couple of kiwi lads. The IPL is almost actually the perfect vehicle for fixing rings - no history or team pride at stake to conflict players, just bright lights and cold hard cash.

LOL