London: Former New Zealand captain Chris Cairns approached current skipper Brendon McCullum with a "business proposition" about match fixing, McCullum told a London court yesterday.


Chris Cairns and Brendon McCullum arrive at Southwark Crown Court in London yesterday. Pics/Getty Images

McCullum, 34, told Cairns' perjury trial that Cairns made the approach in a hotel in Kolkata, India in April 2008, explaining to him that other players "did not have the balls to do it".