I told Dravid not to even think about retiring: Ponting

Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting said he encouraged Rahul Dravid to "not even think about retiring" during the cricket Test series in India last October. The former India skipper, who struck three centuries in the recent disastrous tour of England, was going through a lean patch last year, but Ponting told Dravid not to pay heed to the critics. His only century in 2010 up till then had been against Bangladesh and he managed just one half-century during the series against

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