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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Cantaro (Trinidad), Apr 2 (IANS) West Indies batting legend Brian Lara has said his team would find it virtually &quot;impossible&quot; to win against Australia in their two-match Test series in June.<\/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;\">Australia on Tuesday named a powerful 16-man squad for the Tests in Dominica and Jamaica, which will lead into their Ashes defence in England in July and August.<\/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 50-over World Cup champions will face a West Indies side that has won just five Test series in the past five years -- three against Bangladesh and one each against Zimbabwe and New Zealand.<\/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 think it&#39;s going to be tough for us, obviously we&#39;re playing the world champions, they&#39;re full of confidence, even though it&#39;s in another form of the game. In Test cricket, the West Indies tend to struggle a bit,&rdquo; Lara was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au on Thursday.<\/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 think the attrition level is not there. We seem to like the T20, we won that World Cup a couple of World Cups ago. I just think in the Test matches, Australia are going to be virtually impossible to beat,&quot; said Lara who has scored 22,358 international runs in a career spanning 17 years.<\/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 45-year-old said he would not be thinking too much of the results especially when a team is undergoing a rebuilding phase but believes it is only about gaining experience playing against the best team in the world.<\/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 would expect a younger team, which lends itself to a bit of failure. But as long as you have your priorities set, if it&#39;s rebuilding the team, results really don&#39;t matter.<\/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;It&#39;s about getting the youngsters in, getting them the experience against the best team in the world and moving on.&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;\">The Windies&#39; training squad for the England series gave an insight into the future of cricket in the Caribbean with highly-rated quick bowlers Miguel Cummins (24) and Carlos Brathwaite (26) joining wicketkeeper- batsmen Shane Dowrich (23) and Shai Hope (21) as the four uncapped players in the squad.<\/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;\">But Lara says rejuvenating the senior side with new talent will do little to reverse the slide of the once dominant cricketing power.<\/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;That&#39;s not the main issue with West Indies cricket... it&#39;s not about whether seasoned players should leave and young players come in,&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;It&#39;s really about the infrastructure that we have, or the lack of it. We&#39;re very poor in that department. Our cricket has been down for quite some time and I really don&#39;t see it turning around in the near future.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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