Chris Cairns struggling to provide for Family

Posted by : Unknown Thursday, 18 September 2014

Chris Cairns, one of New Zealand's star all-rounders, who retired in 2004 after achieving the all-rounder's double of 200 test wickets with 3000 runs, has taken up a job with the Auckland Municipality where he goes around the city driving a truck that water-blasts the bus shelters in NZ's capital city. The cleaning job earns the former cricketer a modest $17 an hour.

This situation is in stark contrast to the 44-year-old's flamboyant lifestyle in Dubai in 2010, where he worked as a diamond trader and purchased a 3.2 carat diamond while proposing to his 3rd wife, Mel Croser.

Croser (34), who works as a project manager, recently told a women's magazine that her husband, father of four, took up the cleaning job because "he has no choice, he has to provide for his family.We have bills to pay like everyone else. We don't own a house, we're paying rent and getting by is a struggle."

Cairns and his family however, continue to live in Herne Bay, Auckland's most expensive suburb.