Cairns travelling to London to be interviewed by police

"Chris Cairns is meeting with the Met police to conclude the interview he started and is also hoping to meet with the ICC anti-corruption unit"

“Chris Cairns is meeting with the Met police to conclude the interview he started and is also hoping to meet with the ICC anti-corruption unit”

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Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns has travelled to London in order to be interviewed by police in relation to the ongoing match-fixing investigation.

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Cricketers need to report being approached immediately, says Iain O’Brien

"We need to talk about it, we need to realise how entrenched and how shadowy that this all is"

“We need to talk about it, we need to realise how entrenched and how shadowy that this all is”

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Former New Zealand pace bowler Iain O’Brien has announced that cricketers need to report being approached by illegal bookies immediately instead of waiting for months or years before working up the courage to do so.

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Netherlands ‘cheated’ to replace me with Cooper, says Gruijters

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“I would have played in the Dutch cricket team had it not been for the fact that the Dutch coaching staff decided to bend the rules, act against the spirit of cricket and basically cheat”

Netherlands batsman Tim Gruijters has revealed that the team management claimed that he had an injury in order to add all-rounder Tom Cooper into the country’s World Twenty20 squad.

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‘A couple of scenes in that last game weren’t great for the game of cricket’, says Alastair Cook

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“Some of those scenes were ugly at the end of that game and we do have a duty to play the game in the right way”

England captain Alastair Cook has denounced both teams for the “ugly” scenes that ensued towards the end of the first Ashes Test in Brisbane and stated that it cannot happen again.

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