London: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni shot down and consequently prevented the current manager of the touring party in England Sunil Dev from exploring a settlement with the manager, director of cricket at the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB), Paul Downton on the Jadeja-Anderson affair. This was gathered from a source who tried to mediate on the matter.


MS Dhoni during a practice session in Southampton last week. Pic/Getty Images 

The issue led to egg being splattered on India's face in the form of the International Cricket Council's judicial commissioner Gordon Lewis on Friday flatly rejecting the visitors' charge that the England fast bowler James Anderson committed a serious Level 3 offence under the world body's code of conduct.