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May 2, 2008 Australia / County cricket / India

Brad Hodge utterly miserable about earning an enormous sum of money in the IPL

< 1 minute readChannel M is a local TV channel here in Manchester. Every week they broadcast The Lancashire Cricket Show, which is also available online. In this week’s episode, Brad Hodge is interviewed about how he’s leaving for a few weeks in order to go and earn seven boatloads of cash in

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