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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mumbai, Dec 2<\/strong>- Former Australia batsman Matthew Hayden on Tuesday hit back at India team director Ravi Shastri&#39;s swipe at Australian critics of the spin-friendly pitch prepared for the recent Nagpur Test, saying that having played 103 Tests for his country, he has the right to speak for the game&#39;s betterment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visitors South Africa were bundled out for a paltry 79 runs in their first innings, registering their lowest score after re-entering the international arena after end of apartheid. As many as 20 wickets fell on Day 2 at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium and the visitors lost the match by 124 runs and the four-match series 2-0. The fourth and final Test is to be played in New Delhi from December 3.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was South Africa&#39;s first series defeat on foreign soil in nine years, a period which included 15 trips away from home.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell described the &quot;minefield&quot; pitch as &quot;diabolical&quot; on Twitter, while Hayden was disappointed to &quot;see the quality of Test cricket reduced to what we are witnessing&quot;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shastri, who played 80 Tests and 150 ODIs for India, was unimpressed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&quot;Let them sit in Australia and talk about their pitches. Tell them not to waste their time about Indian tracks. Come and play here,&quot; je had told a sports website.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hayden took exception to the comments.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&quot;After a 103 Test matches, I deserve a voice and I will have that voice for the betterment of cricket. And there some terrific reactions. For example, Ravi Shastri just said the popular view &#39;Go back home and worry about your own pitches&#39;,&quot; Hayden said at an event here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 44-year-old said his comments on the current Test pitch was on the basis of loving the sport.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&quot;Non-Indian commenting on the conditions in India and I reckon probably 80 percent said &#39;mind your business and go back to Australia and worry about your own country&#39; which is fair enough.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&quot;But 20 percent of the people that understand the game and have a great passion for the game, a comment like mine whether they like or not is from the base of loving this sport, from the base of loving conditions and also experiencing diverse conditions across the world,&quot; Hayden said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agency<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n",
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