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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Sydney, Jan 14 (IANS) Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen has said he wants England &quot;to do well&quot; in the impending World Cup despite being acrimoniously sacked by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), leading to a long-enduring verbal fight between the two warring parties.<\/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;\">Pietersen endured a turbulent relationship with the ECB and team-members during his international career, often getting involved in bitter disputes and ugly controversies.<\/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;\">He last played for England in the 2013-14 Ashes and subsequent One-Day Internationals (ODI), and was never recalled to the side after it, with the ECB ultimately sacking him, a move that led to widespread varied reactions from all quarters of the cricketing community.<\/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 34-year-old himself never backed down from his position and has continued to shadow fight with ECB and his former team-mates revealing - secrets of the team dressing room and other disclosed information - either through stinging newspaper columns or his autobiography &quot;KP: The Autobiography&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;\">But Pietersen, despite claiming to have been reduced to tears and conceding he still didn&rsquo;t know why he was no longer an England player, wished his former team the very best for the upcoming World Cup, starting Feb 14.<\/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 want England to do well in the World Cup,&quot; Pietersen was quoted as saying by the Cricket Australia website Wednesday.<\/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&rsquo;ve always wanted England to do well.&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 South Africa-born batsman, currently in Australia playing in the Big Bash T20 league, also said that he doesn&#39;t regret his decision to chose England over the country of his birth for playing international cricket.<\/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;\">Pietersen made his first-class debut for South African domestic Natal in 1997 before moving to England, after voicing his displeasure at the racial quota system in place in the country.<\/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 love South Africa, I love the South African people, I am South African. But I&rsquo;ve got such an enjoyable and wonderful life I would never, ever, ever say that I would have preferred to play for South Africa,&quot; he emphasised.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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