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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Worcestershire, July 4: <\/strong>New Zealand batsman Hamish Rutherford will be part of Worcestershire&#39;s set-up for the T20 Blast competition, the county has confirmed. The New Zealander will be available for the entire T20 tournament which the Worcestershire Rapids won in 2018 and were runners-up 12 months later, it added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Rutherford experienced a successful first spell at Blackfinch New Road during 2019 and became only the second player to score a century on First Class and List A debut for Worcestershire.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He hit 123 in the County Championship match at the Fischer County Ground, Leicester and then 108 in the Royal London One-Day Cup versus Lancashire at the Old Trafford.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Rutherford, the son of former Black Caps captain Ken Rutherford, had been originally scheduled to play the entire 2020 season for Worcestershire CCC before the impact of COVID-19 delayed the campaign.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Worcestershire head coach Alex Gidman said: &quot;It&#39;s been a bitterly frustrating time for anyone in cricket all around the world and it&#39;s no different for Hamish.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;He was desperately keen to come and play for us again for the whole summer. Obviously that hasn&#39;t happened and it&#39;s great the club are still looking to pursue him for T20 cricket.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;We are looking forward to him coming back. Hamish and Riki (Wessels) can cause quite a lot of destruction at the top of the order and it&#39;s important for us as a club and as a group of players that we challenge as much as we can in that competition.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s something we&#39;ve been successful in for the past two years and, regardless of how that competition looks this year, we want to try and do as well as possible in it,&quot; he added.<br \/>\r\n&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n",
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