Chris Cairns has appeared in ICC Cricket World Cup tournaments on 4 occasions in 1992,1996,1999 and 2003.
39 Facts About Chris Cairns
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Chris Cairns is regarded as one of the greatest allrounders of the game.
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Chris Cairns was a member of the New Zealand team that won the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, the first time the country won an ICC trophy, and he had a major role in the final with 102 not out, and scored the winning run.
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Chris Cairns is son of former New Zealand cricketer Lance Cairns.
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Chris Cairns starred in both the One-day and Test New Zealand teams, as well as the Canterbury New Zealand domestic championship team.
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Chris Cairns had joined the Indian Cricket League, and was the captain of the Chandigarh Lions till its closure in 2008.
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Chris Cairns later went on to play for Nottinghamshire in the English Twenty20 cup competition.
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Chris Cairns was included in the New Zealand national under-19 cricket team for the 1988 Youth Cricket World Cup, which was eventually the inaugural edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
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Chris Cairns was later selected to the senior national team.
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Chris Cairns made his test debut against Australia on 24 November 1989.
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Chris Cairns was a destructive batsman who could hit sixes straight down the ground and in his earlier days was an intelligent fast-medium bowler.
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Chris Cairns knocked Shane Warne out of Australia's bowling attack during a 2000 test in Wellington when he launched several sixes out of the Basin Reserve and onto the adjacent street.
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Chris Cairns was the part of the victorious New Zealand campaign during the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy where they beat India in the final to lift their first title in major ICC global event.
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Chris Cairns played his part in the final and helped the Kiwis side, by scoring a match winning knock of 102* and was awarded the player of the final.
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Chris Cairns went onto become the first player to score a century in an ICC Champions Trophy final in a winning cause.
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Chris Cairns became only the third player to score a century in a Champions Trophy final after Philo Wallace and Sourav Ganguly.
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Chris Cairns is currently the only New Zealand player to achieve that milestone.
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Chris Cairns is one of only eight players to have reached the all-rounder's double of 200 wickets and 3000 runs.
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Out of these seven players, Chris Cairns reached the double 3rd fastest behind Ian Botham and Kapil Dev.
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In ODIs, Chris Cairns came close to another double of 200 wickets and 5000 runs.
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Chris Cairns finished his ODI career on 4950 runs, just 50 short.
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Chris Cairns played in the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal ODI, at the MCG.
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Chris Cairns retired from the New Zealand Test team in 2004.
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On 22 January 2006, Chris Cairns announced his retirement from ODIs in a press conference.
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Chris Cairns was part of the ICC World XI that played in the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal matches.
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Chris Cairns left the door open for a comeback, but said "I don't think I could ever be tempted back".
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Chris Cairns missed the stumps in both attempts during the bowl off.
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Chris Cairns was named as the captain of the World XI for the 2009 ICL World Series Twenty 20 tournament which was set to be held in Hyderabad.
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In December 2013, Chris Cairns was the subject of allegations in an ICC investigation into match-fixing.
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Chris Cairns is alleged to have attempted to manipulate games in India when he was captain of the Chandigarh Lions in the short lived Indian Cricket League.
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Former New Zealand cricketer Lou Vincent, an admitted match fixer, has said that Chris Cairns had approached him about fixing matches.
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New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum told the Anti Corruption and Security Unit of the International Cricket Council that Chris Cairns made a match fixing approach to him.
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Chris Cairns insists that he has never fixed a match, saying Vincent wanted to "mitigate his sins by blaming others" and taking issue with McCullum having waited three years before approaching the ICC.
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In March 2012, Chris Cairns successfully sued former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi for libel, after Modi posted on Twitter in 2010 that Chris Cairns had been involved in match-fixing during 2008.
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Chris Cairns was acquitted of charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice on 30 November 2015.
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Chris Cairns is married to Melanie Croser, an Australian who works for the sports marketing group Octagon in Sydney.
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Chris Cairns was later transferred to St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney and was kept in an intensive care unit.
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On 20 August, 2021, Chris Cairns was reported to be off life support and was able to communicate with his family.
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However, Chris Cairns became paralysed from the waist down due to suffering a stroke during the surgery.