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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Sydney, Feb 28 (IANS)&nbsp;South Africa skipper AB de Villiers backed his young West Indies counterpart Jason Holder to succeed as captain, saying he expects the Caribbean side to pose a threat in the ongoing cricket World Cup.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe 23-year-old Holder has had a rough initiation, suffering a 1-4 drubbing from South Africa in his first series at the helm and then enduring a shock four-wicket defeat to Ireland in the Windies&#39; opening Pool B game. However, de Villiers praised Holder&rsquo;s maturity and said he expected him to come through this tough period, reports CMC.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n&ldquo;He&#39;s actually a really nice guy. We&#39;ve all been there. I&#39;ve been there before in my career as well. Every captain goes through really tough games. That it was a really tough game for him but we had a tough game in the last one at Melbourne. That&#39;s part of the game,&quot; de Villiers said.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n&ldquo;I know for sure that he&#39;s mature enough to handle it. He&#39;s got enough teammates with experience around him to look after him and there&#39;s no doubt that the West Indies will bounce back. They&#39;re a classy unit and still a very dangerous team in this tournament.&rdquo;<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nSouth Africa handed West Indies the joint worst-ever defeat in World Cup history Friday when they thrashed them by 257 runs at the Sydney Cricket Ground here. De Villiers was the architect behind the victory, plundering a 66-ball unbeaten 162 as the Proteas piled up 408\/5, the second highest World Cup total.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe 23-year-old Holder, a lanky seamer, suffered at the hands of de Villiers&rsquo; with his last two overs gushing 64 runs. He ended with figures of 10-2-104-1.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe West Indies next play India at Perth March 6 while South Africa take on Ireland March 3 at Canberra.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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