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    "title": "'Bat Without Pads': Rahul Dravid's Advice That Helped Pietersen Tackle Spin ",
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    "excerpt": "Former England captain Kevin Pietersen has asked England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to print an e-mail that India batting great Rahul Dravid had written to him and give it to openers Dom Sibley and",
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    "editor1": "<p>Former England captain Kevin Pietersen has asked England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to print an e-mail that India batting great Rahul Dravid had written to him and give it to openers Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Pietersen posted screenshots of the mail on his Twitter handle on a day when Sibley and Crawley fell on five and a duck respectively to Sri Lanka spinner Lasith Embuldeniya in the second Test in Galle, Sri Lanka.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Crawley &amp; Sibley need to go find the email that Dravid sent me about playing spin.<br \/>\r\nChanged my game!<\/p>\r\n&mdash; Kevin Pietersen (@KP24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KP24\/status\/1352928401393283073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/englandcricket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@englandcricket<\/a>, print this and give it to Sibley &amp; Crawley.<br \/>\r\nThey can call me to discuss it at length if they want...!<br \/>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qBmArq211s\">pic.twitter.com\/qBmArq211s<\/a><\/p>\r\n&mdash; Kevin Pietersen (@KP24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KP24\/status\/1352932472930127872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n\r\n<p>Pietersen had reached out to Dravid after a poor tour of Bangladesh in 2010 after which the latter had sent the mail to the former batsman.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Dravid had advised Pietersen to bat without the front pad in the nets against his then-team mates Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar so that he stops committing the front foot.<\/p>\r\n",
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