Dhoni told me that he wanted to ‘quit Test cricket for good’, says Sanjay Patel

"He called up just after the Test match in Melbourne and told me that he wanted to retire from Test cricket"

“He called up just after the Test match in Melbourne and told me that he wanted to retire from Test cricket”

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Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Sanjay Patel has revealed that captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni did not announce his retirement from Test cricket out of the blue.

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Cricketers need to report being approached immediately, says Iain O’Brien

"We need to talk about it, we need to realise how entrenched and how shadowy that this all is"

“We need to talk about it, we need to realise how entrenched and how shadowy that this all is”

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Former New Zealand pace bowler Iain O’Brien has announced that cricketers need to report being approached by illegal bookies immediately instead of waiting for months or years before working up the courage to do so.

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A BATTING WITH BIMAL BREAKING REPORT: Brad Hodge comeback bid quashed by Victoria

Hodge’s next assignment will be the IPL

Australia veteran batsman Brad Hodge, who had a grand plan of making an international comeback during this year’s back-to-back Ashes series, was left bitterly disappointed after Victoria decided not to select him for the last few games of the Sheffield Shield season, which he was planning to use as a launchpad for his dazzling return to Test cricket after an absence of nearly five years.

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