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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Christchurch, Jan 26 (IANS) Former New Zealand captain John Wright said Monday 1979 was the closest they got to a World Cup final having lost the semifinal to England only by nine runs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">&ldquo;New Zealand lost the semi-final to England by a very low margin - nine runs, at Old Trafford. Now that I look back at that game, it was perhaps the closest we ever got to the final,&rdquo; Wright was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">He further reflected on his performance saying had he stayed back at the crease the outcome could have been different.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">&ldquo;I got run out. My god, what a nightmare it was! I don&#39;t like to remember that. I think I was looking for two and was sent back,&quot; he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">&quot;I&#39;d got a decent score (69) and if I had stayed there, maybe we would have got past. We played the full 60 overs and nine runs was not much.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">England rode on No.4 batsman Graham Gooch&#39;s 71 to score 221 for eight in 60 overs batting first and then restricted New Zealand to 212 for nine to clinch the narrow win.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">The 60-year-old also said watching the West Indies-England final made him realise how close they were to playing in the game.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">The West Indies&#39; premier batsman Vivian Richards and Collis King took the England bowling attack apart to help the Caribbean side to their second consecutive World Cup triumph.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Wright said on watching Richards at his punitive best on television, he wished to bat like Richards.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">&ldquo;I watched the final on television after I&#39;d gone back to Derby, as Viv Richards and Collis King smashed the England batsmen. I remember thinking about how it should have been us in the final and then wishing that I could bat like Viv,&rdquo; he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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