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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Wellington, April 28:<\/strong>&nbsp;Former New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman and commentator Ian Smith has been presented with the Bert Sutcliffe medal by New Zealand Cricket for &quot;outstanding services to cricket&quot;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>NZC Chairman Greg Barclay presented Smith with the medal in a virtual ceremony held on Monday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Smith played 63 Tests and 98 ODIs for his country, but it&#39;s perhaps behind the microphone that he has made his greatest impact -- calling in many of New Zealand&#39;s greatest cricket moments of the past two decades and commentating in 112 Tests at home.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;I&#39;m so grateful,&quot; Smith said via video call from his home in the Hawkes Bay.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;It makes me quite emotional actually to think about joining the list of people who have already won this award.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;The playing aspect was the realisation of a dream. I fondly remember the times keeping to Sir Richard Hadlee, watching Martin Crowe bat sides into submission and all the other guys playing their part as well.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;I&#39;ve loved every minute of calling Test cricket. Brendon (McCullum&#39;s) 300 will live forever in my mind; Test wins at Lord&#39;s, Hobart, Ross Taylor&#39;s 290, the draw at Eden Park with so much drama against England, and of course the World Cup Final at Lord&#39;s last year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s been a great journey and I wouldn&#39;t trade it for a second,&quot; he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Barclay also congratulated Smith on behalf of everyone in the wider cricket family.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Thanks for being such a great contributor to the game,&quot; he told Smith.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Smith joins the likes of Walter Hadlee, Merv Wallace, John R Reid, Graham Dowling, Sir Richard Hadlee and Ewen Chatfield who have won the award.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In other awards, the Wellington pair of Sophie Devine and Devon Conway were named women&#39;s and men&#39;s T20 Super Smash players of the year respectively, with both of them playing key roles in helping their teams win the domestic T20 tournaments.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Conway scored 543 runs at a strike rate of 145.18 in T20s during the course of the season, to complement his first-class form. Devine, on the other hand, ended up with 365 runs and 12 wickets for Wellington Women.<br \/>\r\n&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n",
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