Former New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns will reportedly be forced to defend himself in a London court again next year, this time in a $3 million civil claim brought by former Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi.
Britain's Daily Telegraph says the case has been scheduled to begin in the High Court in London on March 7 and is slated to last until the end of May.
The claim comes in the light of new evidence since Cairns won a libel trial against millionaire businessman Modi in March 2012.
Modi has made his move in the immediate wake of Cairns being found not guilty of perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice by a jury at London's Southwark Crown Court.
Modi is seeking to recoup the $182,000 he paid in damages, plus costs that mounted up to about $3 million.
The report says New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum and former Black Caps batsman Lou Vincent will be called on to testify, as they did during the two-month perjury trial.
However, because the pair live outside the jurisdiction of the court, they won't be legally bound to appear.
The newspaper understands Modi's lawyers have cited the witness statements of Vincent and McCullum which were given to the International Cricket Council alleging Cairns's involvement in corruption.
It says they will sue Cairns for fraud, alleging the former allrounder won his settlement on the basis of untrue evidence.
Modi originally accused Cairns of match-fixing in a Twitter post in January 2010.
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