New Zealand cricket captain Stephen Fleming has claimed he was offered £200,000 by an Indian businessman to join a match-fixing syndicate in 1999.
In Fleming's new official biography, he describes being approached in a hotel in Leicester during the World Cup.
Fleming alleges that sports promoter Aushim Khetrapal offered him the chance to join a worldwide syndicate.
But Khetrapal has strongly rejected the claims, saying the pair met because Fleming was looking for an agent.
In his book, Fleming alleges Khetrapal said there were "top athletes involved in the syndicate".
Fleming also says Khetrapal claimed there were people all over the world that he could call at certain times, then offered him the chance to join the syndicate.
"He said he'd pay me £200,000 straight up, then another £100,000 in a year's time," Fleming says in his book.
Fleming says he informed team manager John Graham and gave a statement to Scotland Yard detectives, who flew to New Zealand in 2000.
Later that year, England all-rounder Chris Lewis went public with similar allegations against Khetrapal, which the promoter again strongly denied.
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