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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Kolkata, May 8 (IANS) Upbeat Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir on Thursday raised a toast to the spinners in his side after the 13-run win over the Delhi Daredevils in their Indian Premier League game at the Eden Gardens.<\/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;We knew Delhi would come hard, it was a must-win game for them. But we knew we had options and we were always controlling the game with our spinners.<\/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;Always a blessing in disguise for any skipper to have so many options. No one would ever say that less options are better. I think more options are always better. And for me four spinners is always better. We got quality spinners. Johan (Botha), Piyush (Chawla), Hoggy (Brad Hogg), and Sunil (Narine) are great.<\/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;People keep talking that Kolkata turns and spins, but we&#39;ve been getting 170 odd runs. And they just lost by 13 runs.&quot;<\/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;\">Gambhir said it was a good batting track at the Eden, &quot;and when you have quality in the line-up it doesn&#39;t matter&quot;.<\/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 said the Knights were at one stage thinking of finishing at 160, and getting 170 was a bonus.<\/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;\">Refering to the last over bowled by veteran Daredevils bowler Zaheer khan, which yielded 18 runs, Gambhir said &quot;That over of Zaheer and the way Johan batted was brilliant. 155 would have been par with Sunil and Hoggy with us.&quot;<\/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;\">Asked whether his side would now be all keyed up as it had the winning momentum, Gambhir said: &quot;Don&#39;t believe in momentum, it&#39;s a new game day after tomorrow and we&#39;ll start even again.<\/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;We have to go out and play to our potential and we have everything to lose against Kings XI, who have nothing to lose&quot;<\/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;\">Kings XI Punjab make up the rear of the league table with four points from ten games.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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