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    "excerpt": "Dubai, 1 Jan (CRICKETNMORE) The Emirates Cricket Board on Saturday announced a new T20 tournament, with eight Associate nations locking horns from January 14 to 20 at Abu Dhabi's Zayed Cricket Stadium with the semi-finals and final slated to be held here.\r\n",
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    "editor1": "<p>Dubai, 1 Jan&nbsp;(CRICKETNMORE) The Emirates Cricket Board on Saturday announced a new T20 tournament, with eight Associate nations locking horns from January 14 to 20 at Abu Dhabi&#39;s Zayed Cricket Stadium with the semi-finals and final slated to be held here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Apart from hosts UAE, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Ireland, Namibia, Netherlands, Oman and Scotland will take part in the competition, named the Desert T20 Tournament, which will be played in a round-robin and knockout format, according to a espncricinfo report.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;The aim of the tournament is to provide an opportunity for our teams to play more competitive men&#39;s T20 cricket,&quot; Zayed Abbas, Emirates Cricket Board member, said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Each of the participating countries are very close in ICC T20I rankings, so we expect the quality of cricket to be very strong.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The tournament kicks-off with Scotland facing Hong Kong followed by Afghanistan taking on Ireland on January 14 in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\r\n",
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