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    "editor1": "<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">Lahore, Sep 16 (IANS) Three years after he was sacked from the post, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reappointed Shahid Afridi as the national team&#39;s Twenty20 captain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">Afridi, 34, led Pakistan to the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 in 2010 held in the West Indies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">He was removed from the post in 2011 after a bitter feud with then coach Waqar Younis and the PCB.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">He will replace Mohammad Hafeez who resigned in April following the team&#39;s early exit from the World T20 in Bangladesh.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">&quot;In line with my policy of taking decisions democratically I consulted the cricket committee and my board members before announcing these decisions,&quot; PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan was quoted as saying by The Dawn.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">&quot;I wish both Afridi and Misbah very good luck in their upcoming assignments,&quot; he added.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">The PCB chairman had taken all the governing board members into confidence over the decisions with the exception of Najam Sethi who is not in Pakistan, according to The Dawn.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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