Brendon McCullum has revealed in his book that his commitment to the IPL and his poor performances almost forced him to quit playing cricket for New Zealand.
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In his book, "Inside Twenty20", the New Zealand batsman, who has given up wicket keeping in Test cricket, wrote,
"I felt I had unfinished business from IPL II. The fact that the tournament did not pan out the way I envisaged had not sat well with me. I desperately wanted to turn it around.
"I must admit I came bloody close to not signing with New Zealand Cricket. I took a plane to Fiji with my wife, Elissa, for a holiday and to think about what cricket meant to me.
"I had started to question how important cricket was to me... This issue of signing, or not signing, my NZC contract brought it to a head. I needed to give something up to understand it and in the end what I did not want to give up was my full and utter commitment to New Zealand."
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