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    "excerpt": "One of India's top umpires Nitin Menon has pulled out of the Indian Premier League(IPL) 2021 and has left the bio-bubble with immediate effect.\u00a0 It is understood that Menon's family members h",
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    "editor1": "<p>One of India&#39;s top umpires Nitin Menon has pulled out of the Indian Premier League(IPL) 2021 and has left the bio-bubble with immediate effect.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It is understood that Menon&#39;s family members have tested positive for the Covid-19.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Yes, Nitin has left as his immediate family members have COVID-19 and he is currently not in a mental state to conduct games,&quot; a BCCI official said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Menon is the only Indian umpire to be included in ICC elite panel and has been in the news lately due to his brilliant work in the recently concluded England&#39;s tour of India.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He is only the second Indian and overall ninth participant of IPL 2021 to pull out of the tournament. R Ashwin, Adam Zampa, Kane Richardson, and Andrew Tye are the latest others to opt-out.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>There have been reports that umpire Paul Reiffel, too, has pulled out of the tournament but there is no clarity regarding the correctness of this news.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n",
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