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  "id": 15259801,
  "title": "Is New Zealand holding back women's Test cricket?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/is-new-zealand-holding-back-womens-test-cricket-15259801",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-17T18:39:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ABC News",
    "slug": "abc-news",
    "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-18/is-new-zealand-holding-back-womens-test-cricket/107273022"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "New Zealand regularly faces Australia in white-ball formats but refuses to play women's Test cricket, despite being one of the first three nations to do it back in the 1930s. Here's why.",
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        "title": "Is New Zealand holding back women's Test cricket?",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/is-new-zealand-holding-back-womens-test-cricket",
        "published": "2026-10-17T18:39:59.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}