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Ex-New Zealand Cricket Captain Wins Twitter Libel Case
- The Independent , Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3 AM
Chris Cairns was awarded £90,000 in libel damages over an accusation of match-fixing which he said turned his achievements to “dust”. He had sued Lalit Modi, ex-chairman of Twenty20 franchise the Indian Premier League over an “unequivocal allegation” on Twitter in January 2010. The London High Court judge said that Modi had "singularly failed" to provide any reliable evidence that Cairns was involved in match-fixing or spot- fixing, or even that there were strong grounds for suspicion that he was.
