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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Pune, Jan 9:&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;Amidst the ongoing debate on the ICC&#39;s proposal of trimming the five-day Tests to a four-day affair, Sri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur on Thursday objected to the global body&#39;s plan and said the fabric of the longest format of the game &#39;shouldn&#39;t be messed up&#39;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Arthur, who was earlier a coach with South Africa, Australia and recently Pakistan, said: &quot;Look, five-day Test cricket is the way to go. Test cricket challenges you mentally, physically and technically and a lot of time on the fifth day (a result comes). We just witnessed a very good Test match (England versus South Africa) that finished on day five.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;I know, we can talk about financial pressures and that type of stuff. I think the fabric of Test cricket should not be messed [up] with. You want wickets deteriorating on Day Five, you want [situations] where there is lot of really good exciting draws,&quot; Arthur said on the eve of the third T20 between India and Sri Lanka here on Friday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The ICC cricket committee has considered four-day Tests as being part of the World Test Championship from 2023. The ICC&#39;s increasing demand for event windows, the proliferation of domestic T20 leagues, BCCI&#39;s demands for its own sizeable share of bilateral calendar space, and the costs of staging Test series are all said to be the factors contributing to the move.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Earlier, several cricketers including batting great Sachin Tendulkar, India skipper Virat Kohli and former opener Gautam Gambhir had also objected to the ICC&#39;s idea even as just retired former all-rounder Irfan Pathan had lent his support to the four-day Tests.<br \/>\r\n&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n",
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