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    "excerpt": "July 31 (CRICKETNMORE) - India will take on hosts England in the first test of the five-match series at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground on Wednesday. India are No.1 in the ICC Test Team Rankings, while England are No.5. However, Joe Root and his men",
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    "editor1": "<p>July 31 (CRICKETNMORE) - India will take on&nbsp;hosts England in the first test of the five-match series at&nbsp;the Edgbaston Cricket Ground&nbsp;on Wednesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>India are No.1 in the&nbsp;ICC Test Team Rankings, while England are No.5. However, Joe Root and his men have the home advantage and will want to make&nbsp;England&rsquo;s 1000th Test&nbsp;a special one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>India have not won a Test series in England since 2007, achieved under the captaincy of Rahul Dravid. And now under the captaincy of Virat Kohli, India are bracing up for a stern test in difficult English conditions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In this long tour of England, India won the Twenty20 International (T20I) series but lost three-match One-Day International (ODI) rubber.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>India vs England 1st Test Prediction: Poll<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><iframe allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"491\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcricketnmore%2Fposts%2F2031333733603956&amp;width=500\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"page-break-after:always\"><span style=\"display:none\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Squads<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>England XI:&nbsp;Joe Root (c), James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler, Alastair Cook, Sam Curran, Keaton Jennings, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Ben Stokes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>India (from):&nbsp;Virat Kohli (c), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, M Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Karun Nair, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Rishabh Pant (wk), R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/cricket-videos\/video-brendon-mccullums-all-time-playing-xi-35\">Video: Brendon McCullum&#39;s All-Time Playing XI<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>Sahir<\/p>\r\n",
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