Former NZ cricketer Chris Cairns speaks outside Southwark Crown Court after being found not guilty of perjury.

London's famed Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has paid Chris Cairns substantial damages for wrongly linking him to match-fixing, in addition to making a public apology.

Former Black Caps cricket captain Cairns, 46, was understood to have been paid out a five-figure sum in British pounds, after his solicitor Rhory Robertson took action against the club.

In June, the MCC posted video with a title implying Cairns had been guilty of match-fixing, when Brendon McCullum gave the annual MCC Spirit of Cricket Lecture at Lord's.

REUTERS Chris Cairns after he was cleared of perjury and perverting the course of justice, in London last year.

On its video of the speech, the MCC ran the title "McCullum: On Cairns' Match Fixing"

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McCullum was a key prosecution witness in the 2015 perjury trial against Cairns in London, where his former friend and team-mate was found not guilty.

In two London court cases, Cairns has never been proved guilty of match-fixing - where players attempt to manipulate a game, or part of it so that bets can be collected on the outcome.

"He has been through two trials and been vindicated in both and he is not going to allow the MCC or anyone else repeat the libel," Robertson said.

Cairns was successful in a libel action in 2012 when accused of match-fixing by wealthy Indian businessman Lalit Modi.

He was also acquitted by a jury of all charges in Southwark Crown Court in 2015, in which it was alleged he had lied under oath at the 2012 trial.

Cairns appears on the honours board at Lord's, the world's most famous cricket ground, for his first innings six for 77 for New Zealand against England in 1999.

An apology to him was published on the Lord's YouTube page on 27 June 2016, for an agreed period of 14 days. It was removed on July 12.

Links to the Lord's YouTube page containing the apology were also posted on Lords.org, Facebook and Twitter.

Part of the apology said:

"Chris Cairns: An Apology

During the evening of June 6 2016 the former New Zealand cricket captain, Brendon McCullum, gave the annual MCC Spirit of Cricket Lecture. At about 10pm that evening, a recording of part of Mr McCullum's speech was uploaded to YouTube.

It carried the title: "McCullum: On Cairns' Match Fixing.The video title remained posted for approximately 11 hours before the MCC removed it.

"It is accepted that Mr Cairns was successful in a libel action in 2012 when wrongly accused of match fixing. He was also acquitted by a jury of all charges in 2015, in which it was alleged he had committed perjury at the 2012 trial," the statement said.

"The MCC apologises to Mr Cairns for wrongly alleging in the video title that he was guilty of match fixing and withdraws the allegation completely."

McCullum spoke at length during his MCC speech about giving evidence against Cairns to anti-corruption officers and appearing as a key witness in last year's trial.

At the trial, McCullum was cross examined by Orlando Pownall, QC, over his own motivations for giving evidence, and his delay in reporting to the International Cricket Council his allegations Cairns had approached him to match-fix.

The jury - five men and seven women, spread across the age groups - took 10 hours 17 minutes to decide the prosecution had not proved Cairns lied under oath when he said he'd "never" cheated at cricket.

Cairns is the son of Lance Cairns, the big-hitting cricket cult hero. He took more than 200 test wickets and hit more than 3000 runs, in 62 tests.

He was Wisden player of the year in 2000, a rare world honour for a Kiwi and was three times awarded player of the year by the New Zealand Cricket Almanack.

He once held the world record for most sixes in tests 87, at a rate of nearly 1.5 per test and Richard Hadlee, Daniel Vettori and Chris Martin have taken more test wickets for the Black Caps.

In 2000 he guided New Zealand to the International Cricket Council (ICC) one day international world title, with an outlandish century against India in Kenya.

He hit 102 not out to win the game with just two balls left. It remains New Zealand's only world cricket title.

After last year's trial, he told reporters he could no longer work in cricket, even though he had been cleared. Several top New Zealand cricketers gave evidence against him.

"I'm completely scorched, burnt completely, but it hasn't stopped me and it won't stop me. I'll keep going forward," he said on the steps of Southwark Crown Court.

"I think it would be a pretty hard environment to go back into, there's been a a lot of damage done and I think that that's unfortunate, and sad. I struggle to find how there's a way back."

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