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Falling from grace:True life saga of New Zealand's ex-cricketer Chris Cairns turned driver-cleaner. World is not short of real life stories of veterans and luminaries falling from grace to lead a life of abject poverty, humiliation and even spending in jail for years (like Satyam Computers boss Ramalinga Raju). To this saga is an addition in the form of Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer, who was acclaimed as most featured all rounder even by Australian fellow cricketer Shane Warne. Chris Cairns was accused by fellow cricketer from his own country Brendon McCullum of approaching him with an offer of match fixing, whom he named as Player X; with International Cricket Council (ICC) taking note of it. Earlier to that one of his former team mates Lou Vincent, who was banned from cricket and his ex-wife Elly Riley in 2012 alleging on the same lines. ICC took up the matter seriously and reported to New Zealand government, which gave green signal for a British investigation. The allegations pertain to his tenure as captain of Chandigarh Lion's team, with the short lived Indian Cricket League. He was a cricket commentator too, but most significant in his life was he turned a diamond trader as well in Dubai, with he buying in December 2010, a 3.2 Carat diamond to propose to his 3rd wife Mel Croser, with whom he has 2 , living with them in a hired place in Herne Bay, Auckland's high end suburbs. Mel Croser, a project manager confirmed that her husband Cairns having lost all glory is working as truck driver of the local council to water blast to clean bus shelters, just to make both ends meet with, clear bills and manage family besides meeting with legal expenses to defend himself. In fact, he won $146,000 in a suit against Lalit Modi, former chief of IPL in a related twitter comment. He had such an illustratious career that he gave a win to his country single handedly by his unbeaten 102, winning ICC knock out trophy against India in Kenya in 2000. He played 62 tests, scoring 3,320 runs, making 5 centuries, and taking 218 wickets; while he played 215 one day internationals having scored 4.950 runs, taking 201 wickets. He was rated as a destructive bats man and an intelligent medium fast bowler; besides being an all rounder. WHAT A SAD TURN OF EVENTS?   FACTS SUSTAIN.TRUTH PREVAILS.I FOLLOW LORD KRISHNA's 108 COUNT. AFTER THAT NO MORE. |
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