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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>St. John&#39;s (Antigua), Oct 4<\/strong> - Distinguished former West Indies Cricket Board chief executive officer Steve Camacho is dead, a news agency reported.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 69-year-old, who was also a selector, West Indies team manager and Test batsman, passed away in Antigua on Saturday following a battle with cancer. He would have celebrated his 70th birthday in nine days.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Camacho distinguished himself as an outstanding administrator, spending 18 years as CEO of the WICB, and was the first full-time employee of the board.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was born in British Guiana and played his early cricket at the Georgetown Cricket Club. As a right-handed opener, he went on to play 76 first class games, scoring 4,079 runs including seven centuries and 24 half-centuries at an average of 34.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Camacho played 11 Tests for the West Indies, making his debut on England&rsquo;s 1968 tour of the Caribbean alongside the likes of the legendary Garry Sobers, Clive Lloyd and Wes Hall.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He gathered 640 runs with four half-centuries.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.8px; text-align: justify;\">(IANS)<\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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