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    "editor1": "<p>Prolific batsman Steve Smith on Friday ended Australia&#39;s near four-year drought of centuries against India after scoring 131 in the first innings of the ongoing third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the Sydney Cricket Ground.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The right-handed batsman was, in fact, the last Australian to score a hundred for his country against India back in 2017 when he made 111 in the first innings of the Dharamsala Test.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Since then the Aussies went 11 completed innings, all in Australia, without a century before Smith himself broke the jinx.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Smith though himself wasn&#39;t part of the line-up in seven of those innings during the 2018-19 series as he was serving a ban for his involvement in the ball-tampering row.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Prior to Australia&#39;s first innings in the ongoing Test at the SCG, the individual highest score by an Australian batsman was 79 by Marcus Harris during the last series in 2018-19. Harris is sitting on the bench in this series.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Marnus Labuschagne got past 79 first, making 91 on Friday before getting dismissed by left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja. Labuschagne&#39;s individual score was then surpassed by Smith as the Aussies made 338, their highest total in the last eight Tests against India.<br \/>\r\n&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n",
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