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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Sydney, Feb 14: <\/strong>England captain Heather Knight said that the team has taken a lot of lessons from the recent tri-series they played in Australia against the hosts and India going into the Women&#39;s T20 World Cup. The tournament is set to be held from February 21 to March 8.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Knight said that the team&#39;s aim is to reach the semi-finals. England won the inaugural edition in 2009 and finished runners-up thrice since then. &quot;We&#39;ll be focusing on how we want to play our cricket and reaching those semi-finals. If we make those, then we&#39;ll take it from there,&quot; she said in a column for the website of the International Cricket Council.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;I think we learnt a huge amount from the recent Tri Series. We were put under pressure in some really tight games, which is perfect preparation going into a World Cup,&quot; said Knight.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>England are the reigning 50-over World Cup champions and Knight said that the current team is different from the one that played in 2017. &quot;The publicity and noise is similar to the 2017 tournament but the 50-over World Cup is a long time ago now. We&#39;re a slightly different team, led by a different coach, and we&#39;ve brought in some new exciting young players who have done really well leading into this tournament,&quot; she said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;The day after we lost the last T20 World Cup final to Australia in the West Indies in 2018, I sat down with our former Head Coach, Mark Robinson, and our then Assistant Coach Ali Maiden, and we ran through how we wanted to approach this tournament in Australia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;When Lisa Keightley took over in January, it was clear her plans aligned with what we had looked at, and it&#39;s been really exciting to start working alongside her.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;We&#39;ve been really specific with the players we wanted out here in Australia. We&#39;ve got a lot of different match-winners and proven world-class players, but also a few younger ones too, who so far have taken to international cricket really well. From 1-15, we&#39;ve got a squad that can win games of cricket,&quot; said Knight.<\/p>\r\n",
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