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    "editor1": "<p><span style=\"line-height: 20.8px;\">Caribbean Premier League 2016 will start on 30th June 2016 when defending Champion&nbsp;<\/span>Trinbago Knight Riders will take on <span style=\"line-height: 20.8px;\">St. Lucia Zouks at the Queen&rsquo;s Park Oval in the opening match of the tournament.<\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 20.8px;\">Trinbago Knight Riders&nbsp;<\/span>duo Hashim Amla and Brendon McCullum are excited excited about pulling on the TKR colours as Dwayne Bravo&rsquo;s men attempt to retain the title they won in dramatic fashion last year on their home ground.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>South Africa&rsquo;s Hashim Amla:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&ldquo;The West Indies is a wonderful place. The weather is exceptional, the excitement has been brilliant and everybody is looking forward to the CPL. It&rsquo;s the first time that I&rsquo;ve been involved in this competition and just from all the chat with the Trinbagonians, everybody&rsquo;s really confident and hoping that it&rsquo;s a great start for us. Certainly, being champions last year, we&rsquo;ll be trying to defend that. It&rsquo;s been a lovely few days since I&rsquo;ve been with the boys.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>New Zealand&#39;s Brendon McCullum:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&ldquo;Every team has got good players in the CPL and I think that&rsquo;s probably a mark of the tournament that it&rsquo;s attracting the world&rsquo;s best players combined with the Caribbean&rsquo;s best players as well. I think that&rsquo;s a great sign for the tournament in general that it&rsquo;s becoming a global attraction for all of the players around the world. It&rsquo;s going to be a tough game (against St. Lucia Zouks), but they&rsquo;re all going to be tough games so from our point of view we&rsquo;ve got a good team as well. So we&rsquo;ve got to go out there and play in the style and the manner which gives us the most amount of satisfaction and hopefully we win the game.<\/p>\r\n",
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