Step aside Pakistan. It appears that the Blackcaps, once considered the most clean team in world cricket, could very well be the darkest swan of them all.
Chris Cairns, back from London to defend charges of match-fixing against him, spoke to press at Auckland Airport naming Stephen Fleming, Daniel Vettori and Kyle Mills in the latest match-fixing saga to drag the proud name of New Zealand cricket into the mud.
Indeed, it appears that the whole team at the time could very well have been involved in match-fixing including current captain, Brendon McCullum who didn't respond to the allegations along with the players association.
If the charges against Vettori, Fleming, Mills, McCullum, Vincent and Cairns are proven, it could be a shocking epilogue to a chapter of New Zealand cricket which most of us have grown up with.
For all its reputation of being clean and green, New Zealanders do love a bit of a flutter and a bet - the TAB is highly popular here.
What a sad time for New Zealand cricket's ferverment.
Given their inconsistent results over the last 20 years, I wouldn't be surprised.
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