AFL icon Ben Cousins has revealed at the eleventh hour that he will not take part in Thursday night’s highly anticipated EJ Whitten Legends Game .

Cousins — who recently had a hernia operation after noticing a lump “where it shouldn’t be” — says he now needs knee surgery after stepping up training for the special event (which will be live and free on will be live and free on Seven and 7plus Sport ).

Along with champions such as Cyril Rioli, Gary Ablet Jnr, Luke Hodge and Nick Riewoldt, the Brownlow medallist and premiership hero had been among the big names to commit to the game.

But sadly, he has made the eleventh hour call to pull out.

“I stepped up my training in preparation, and unfortunately, I’ve done myself a mischief,” he said on his radio show Mix94.5’s Pete & Kymba w

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