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    "editor1": "<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">Melbourne, Dec 8 (IANS) Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting believes Australia must continue with the aggressive brand of cricket that proved such a successful formula on home soil against England last summer, despite the tragic loss of Phillip Hughes after he was struck by a short delivery.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">&quot;(Would) love to see Mitchell Johnson run in and bowl a bouncer first ball of the Test match,&quot; Cricket.com.au quoted Ponting as writing for ESPN.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">&quot;I don&#39;t want to see anyone get hurt,&quot; he wrote, &quot;but the bouncer&#39;s part of the fabric of the game, and if they&#39;re not playing in the aggressive way they did last summer then they&#39;re not actually playing in what I believe is the spirit of Test match cricket.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">Johnson captured 37 wickets in five Ashes Tests last summer and spearheaded an ultra-aggressive policy from the Australians, much of which was based around a hostile length from the pacemen.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">It was a ruthlessly efficient policy, and one that Ponting insists Darren Lehmann&rsquo;s side would be foolish to stray from.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">&ldquo;If I was batting against them (Johnson and co in the nets) I&#39;d want to be bounced, because you&#39;re going to get that in the Test,&rdquo; the former skipper wrote.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">&ldquo;Australia can&#39;t lose sight of the fact that last summer they established a brand of cricket that will be very hard to beat at home.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">&ldquo;What Michael Clarke, Darren Lehmann and the players put together against England stands as a real blueprint for how they want to play their Test cricket, especially in home conditions.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">&ldquo;They forged an identity for themselves as a team and the way they wanted to go about playing their cricket. It&#39;s important they build on that and continue to play the hard-nosed, aggressive Australian way,&rdquo; wrote Ponting, who played a record 168 Tests for Australia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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