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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) The BCCI on Sunday recommended dashing batsman Rohit Sharma for this year&#39;s Arjuna award.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;The (Board of Control for Cricket in India) working committee recommended Rohit Sharma for the Arjuna award for the year 2015,&quot; its secretary Anurag Thakur said in a release.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The Mumbai boy, who rewrote the world record of the highest individual ODI score in an innings last year by blazing o 264 against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens, has struck seven One Day International hundreds so far.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">When he cracked a 126-ball 137 against Bangladesh in the World Cup last month, Rohit joined the elite club of cricketing legends Englishman David Gower and West Indies&#39; Viv Richards by becoming the third batsman to score two centuries at the historic MCG as an overseas player.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">He first came into the limelight after some class batting acts at number three in the Under-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka in 2006, which prompted the selectors to pick him for the senior national team, but he was in and out of the team due to a lack of consistency till 2013.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The working committee also paid homage to departed young cricketers Ankit Keshri of Bengal, Gaurav Kumar of Jharkhand and the unfortunate victims of the earthquake which devastated Nepal and India.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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