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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Sydney, May 1:<\/strong>&nbsp;Former Australian captain Michael Clarke questioned Cricket Australia&#39;s decision to exclude Usman Khawaja from its list of centrally contracted players. The new list for the upcoming year was announced on Thursday and featured a number of limited-overs specialists with the upcoming T20 World Cup in mind.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Khawaja has played only nine T20Is for Australia, the last of which was in September 2016. &quot;I find it very hard to believe that someone with the talent and the runs behind him over 10 years isn&#39;t in Australia&#39;s top 20 players,&quot; Clarke said of Khawaja on Big Sports Breakfast.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Khawaja has had clashes with coach Justin Langer, which was seen in the Amazon Prime documentary series The Test on the Australian team&#39;s journey from the Newlands ball tampering scandal in 2018 to them retaining the Ashes in 2019. The Ashes was the last time that Khawaja played for Australia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Clarke however said that he doesn&#39;t think this would have factoried in. &quot;I would like to think it&#39;s nothing personal,&quot; Clarke said. &quot;I don&#39;t think JL is like that.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Khawaja and all-rounder Marcus Stoinis were the two big names who were dropped from the list.<\/p>\r\n",
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