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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Navi Mumbai, Jan 29:&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;Former England captain Mike Gatting on Tuesday stressed that five-day Tests have more possibility of having results than the proposed four-day format, joining the chorus of cricketers who have opposed the idea.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Test cricket is unique, we keep saying it day in and day out. Sadly, it&#39;s the administrators who don&#39;t play, who understand that they have a problem in scheduling I suspect. Therefore, they don&#39;t understand what a unique game Test cricket is,&quot; Gatting said at the launch of the Tendulkar Middlesex Global Academy DY Patil Sports Centre.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;So, it&#39;s good to have a chat, let&#39;s talk about it so that people can understand both sides of the story.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Gatting played 79 Tests for England scoring 4409 runs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;If there&#39;s less Test cricket fine, but I will be very, very opposed to getting rid of Test cricket, it has to be five days.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;If you have bad weather in England or South Africa anyway, it&#39;s a draw if you lose a day, so with five days you get a chance of having a result. It&#39;s worth talking, but five-day Test cricket is unique in many ways.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;So in those four-day talks, let&#39;s talk about what are the areas we might actually try and improve the promotions of Test cricket and ways of making it a little better to fit it in the schedule,&quot; Gatting said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>India skipper Virat Kohli had said that promotion and marketing could be done better for spectators who come to watch Test cricket, especially in the subcontinent.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>India played their first D\/N Test last year at Eden Gardens against Bangladesh and Kohli had welcomed the move, saying the team is ready to play pink ball Tests in future.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;The fact that Virat Kohli has said that Day\/Night Test cricket is something that he wants to play is fantastic and was great to see what happened in Kolkata (where India played their first Day\/Night Test).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Sadly, Bangladesh didn&#39;t play their best or India were just too good, one of the two. But the crowds were good for Day\/Night Test. Maybe that&#39;s the way,&quot; added the 62-year-old who also featured in 92 ODIs for England.<\/p>\r\n",
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