21 October,2016 08:25 AM IST | | AFP
Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum said he will never forgive Chris Cairns after his ex-teammate set out to destroy his credibility over match-fixing allegations
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Wellington: Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum said he will never forgive Chris Cairns after his ex-teammate set out to destroy his credibility over match-fixing allegations. McCullum was the prosecution star witness in Cairns' perjury trial, which ended with the allrounder acquitted of all charges in a London court late last year.
McCullum said he felt a moral obligation to testify about claims Cairns approached him with a "business proposition" about match-fixing in 2008. "I felt that I was the one on trial and found hard to deal with," he told Radio New Zealand.
He added: "I'm a very forgiving person. I don't keep a lot of grudges... the last thing I wanted to see was one of my former teammates rotting away in jail.
"But I can't forgive the other behaviour, the way... (he) effectively lobbied to put me in the gun publicly. Hence I want nothing more to do with him."
