India, March 13 -- Former Australian cricketer Stuart MacGill has been found guilty of facilitating a drug deal between his partner's brother and a dealer, with a jury rejecting his claims of merely introducing the two parties. The verdict came after an eight-day trial in the New South Wales District Court, where the former leg-spinner was acquitted of a more serious charge of supplying a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug but convicted on a lesser count of participation in the transaction.

MacGill, 54, was accused of being the intermediary in a $330,000 cocaine exchange between his brother-in-law, Marino Sotiropoulos, and an unnamed dealer, identified in court as Person A.

According to Australian media reports, MacGill faci...