Indian owners will not sell Blackburn

"It is a company of ours and there is nothing whatsoever (in rumours of a sale). These allegations are not correct," the company's joint managing director Venkateshwara Rao told Times Now channel.

Speculation that Hunt had been dismissed because of a letter he wrote calling on Venky's to sack manager Steve Kean in December was untrue, Rao said.

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