Chris Cairns has been compared to corrupt cyclist and cheat Lance Armstrong.
Crown prosecutor Sasha Wass QC is summing up the case against Cairns and says the allegations of match fixing against him brought shame on the world of cricket just as Armstrong brought shame on cycling.
Ms Wass told the jury to consider the case as a series of building bricks creating a wall of evidence against Cairns.
She pre-emptively argued against a "conspiracy theory" she believes the defence will put forward that all nine witnesses who gave direct and indirect evidence against Cairns are lying years after the fact.
Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum, former Black Cap Lou Vincent and his ex-wife Eleanor Riley all gave direct evidence alleging Cairns' involvement in match fixing.
Ms Wass asked the jury why Mr McCullum, "a man at the height of his career", would come to the Southwark Crown Court to "incriminate a man he held in such high regard?"
With regards to Mr Vincent she warned the jury that it must treat the evidence of the self-confessed liar and cheat with care.
"That does not mean you should ignore it, the world is full of people who have fallen from grace and tried to make amends for wrongdoing," she said.
Ms Riley gave evidence that Cairns reassured her that they neither he nor Mr Vincent would get caught match fixing.
The Crown says that's the clearest evidence of Cairns confessing to match fixing.
Ms Wass explained the importance of the indirect evidence in terms of backing up and proving what the three chief witnesses had said about approaches from Cairns in 2008.
She called any suggestion of a master plan to implicate Cairns years later, "simply ludicrous".
Cairns has said the nine witnesses are lying, but Ms Wass says he has been unable to come up with a single credible explanation for why nine people would come up with allegations against him.
She asked the jury to the defence's proposition that Mr Vincent and Mr McCullum had sacrificed Cairns as "a scalp" to the International Cricket Council (ICC).
"Ask yourself how realistic that is or not," she said. "Why would anyone, let alone the governing body of cricket want the scalp of an innocent man?
"Why would nine witnesses lie, many of whom don't know each other, and why would the ICC want to destroy the good name of an innocent man."
The Crown summary continues and the defence makes its closing speech next week.
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