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From: K1R@ECLX.PSU.EDU (Krishnan Ramaswamy)
Subject: SNippets - Ind/S.A, forthcoming Ind/Zim. tour
Organization: Penn State Engineering Computer Lab
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 21:13:31 GMT
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Heard on  BBC that some official in India ( probably the Vice President
of the Cricket Board) has criticised the performance of the Indian
team in the one day series in S.Africa. SOmething to the effect of
the performance being pathetic and accusing the players for nottrying/giving
their best .. Was juz wondering, can netters from countried other than India
recall instances in which the Board officials etc. hav relaesed such statements
about the team. I can understand managers (or coaches) making such comments.
But it seems odd that some official should do so. After all, how does he 
know that the players were not giving their best ? :-)

Also heard that Zimbabwe might tour India in March. ( 1 test match and 3 one
dayers). Hmmm, first time I heard of this tour. I thought that the Englan tour
to India was the only one this winter.

Krishnan
From: murali@emily.polymer.uakron.edu (Murali Cotah)
Subject:  Pakistan are missing Imran in ODI's
Organization: Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:44:28 GMT

Keywords: 

>In ODI's however you need an extra bowler and IMHO this is
where pakistan have been falling down, their fifth bowler is never as good
as Imran.
tony bell                 ! keep on running   live long and prosper
serc daresbury laboratory ! "back off man, i'm a scientist"
>
Does one need 5 best bowlers in the world to win matches -- India did win the world cup - did they have any body as good as wasim or waqar or imran? Australia is winning matches - with bowlers like waugh (a bit better than Mohinder for sure). I think it is time for Pakistan to invest more time in batting practise (c?). Their line up is quite susceptible to steady hostile bowling.
cotah
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From: murali@iris.polymer.uakron.edu (Murali Cotah)
Subject:  Kali had the finest of the finest square cuts.
Organization: Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:18:20 GMT

Keywords: 

Personally, i liked his late cuts - especially against Venkatraghavan (Indian Off spinner).
It was always a great duel between those two to see who gets on top.

cotah
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From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi)
Subject: Re: Aqib Javed suspended for one match
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 00:42:09 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.123111.12998@waikato.ac.nz>, higham@waikato.ac.nz writes:
> 
> According to the newspaper, Martin Crowe (non-striker) was quoted as saying
> that Aaqib said, "you f**king cheat" to the umpire. Crowe said thats not on
> to Javed who came running in to settle Aaqib down. I think its a good idea to
> suspend players too, especially for abusing an umpire. 

Could somebody who has seen the incident, please post a precise
description of what really happened? Not just what Aaqib said but also the
events leading up to the offending statement? 

I am not supporting Aaqib's outburst. Just curious as to what really
happened. 

	--SAN
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Subject: Re: "Cheating" Aussie umpires?
From: Spaceman Spiff <SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:44:35 EST
 .edu.au><92344.085850SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu> 
 <1992Dec9.185406.13930@news.columbia.edu><92345.125742SXK129@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Dec20.232359.9452@cs.su.oz.au>
Organization: Penn State University

In article <1992Dec20.232359.9452@cs.su.oz.au>, allanc@cs.su.oz.au (Restless
Wanderer) says:
>
>
>Hey,give me a break.Did you see the incident? Did you see it at normal speed.?
>Did you see the real SLOMO replay?
>   [...etc...]
>
you misunderstood what i was trying to say. my point is that if umpire prue
had any doubt at all that the batsman was out he cannot with good conscience
give him out. if, however, in his opinion the batsman was dismissed fairly
he can definitely give him out. in the lara case he "saw" healy whip off the
bails and so he declared lara out. if later he said that he "thought he saw"
healy whip off the bails (i.e., he had a doubt), there is a definite question
mark about his competence. maybe he should umpire more shield cricket before
he's given a second chance at the test level.

Stay cool,
Spaceman Spiff

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From: murali@emily.polymer.uakron.edu (Murali Cotah)
Subject: S. Africa v. India Averages for One Day Series.
Organization: Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:29:11 GMT

Keywords: 

"Raman         5      113     210    42.00    0       1          61.95"

Was Raman not playing in ODIs because of injury - or was he dropped for playing well ..
could somebody please let me know
cotah
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From: sudhama@engin.umich.edu (Sudhama Gopalan)
Subject: Some thoughts...
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 17:10:55 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor


So here's another dismal performance by India's frontline batsmen. As someone
said it's time the long knives were unsheathed. On performance alone, I don't
think any of the Indian frontline batsmen would make it to any of the better
Test sides of today. But, of course, they are "on paper" a batting side with 
tremendous potential. So what does one do when faced with a collective "loss
of form". The main problem seems to be a score-card which looks like 0,2,12,1,
105,8,23,8,9,12,2. Look at any of the frontline batsmen's performance in the
last n games - you'll find a trend of x,x,x,x,x,x,109,x,x (repeat cycle where
x is insignificant). So this way everyone manages an average which does'nt look
that dismal - moral of the story, do what Shastri is famous for - get a big 
score when your place looks to be at stake. 
 Well I don't think anyone who has more than one cycle (as illustrated above)
deserves a place in the Test side - you can't lose form that often. However,
sadly this would mean axing each and every one of the frontline batsmen who are
on duty in South Africa. Following the principle that you give everybody a long
rope, the first to be axed should be Shastri, Manjrekar and Azharuddin. That's 
the only way to keep them on their toes - ie if they ever come back (which they
should).
 Well, what about the captaincy issue? For a start, it was never a good idea to
have Azhar as captain. For one reason - if your captain is suspect against 
genuine pace and hops around like Azhar does against short-pitched stuff, it
does'nt do much for the morale of the other batsmen. To top it off, if your
captain tries to hit his way out of a tough spot, that puts a premium on
application - which is an absolute must for a Test batsman. The choice seems to 
be Kapil for a couple of years.
The saving grace, so far, has been the bowling. A veritable pop-gun attack,
probably #9 among Test bowling sides (on paper), has consistently stuck to it's
task and bowled it's heart out - and come up with performances away from home
which they can justifiably take pride in. No Sir, the problem is definitely
not whether Raju is pathetic, or Srinath has been given too much rope or Kapil
is waning or whatever ..... The thing that needs immediate sorting out (before
the England tour starts) is the batting. 
For a start, it's time we got ourselves some real openers. And some middle/upper
order bats who don't carry the tag of strokeplayer on them. Suggestions - recall
Navjot Siddhu, try out people like Surendra Bhave, Shantanu Sugwekar,          
K. P. Bhasker, etc - some of those dependable types. Pick totally different
batting lineups for the Test and one-dayers for the games against England (after
all the luxury of a series at home is rare)
 Or maybe I'm over reacting - maybe you have to lower your expectations of a  
team which has'nt played a Test at home for ages now???!

Any comments?

Sudhama
From: tripunit@algol.cs.psu.edu (Mahesh V Tripunitara)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Dev vs. Azhar (captaincy)
Date: 22 Dec 92 00:56:38 GMT
Organization: Penn State Computer Science

In article <1992Dec22.002902.21798@novell.com> aantur@na.novell.com () writes:

>	    In lieu of an alternative, I have to go for Kapil as the captain.
>	    He is no different from Azhar in terms of building a strategy or
>	    a game plan, but he is MARGINALLY better than Azhar. I do not see

Don't agree. Kapil Dev is certainly a much more dynamic captain, willing to try out
some very novel ideas (some of which backfire badly).

Mahesh.
From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
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Subject: Re: NZ v Pak D3
Date: 4 Jan 93 05:00:35 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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NZ look poised to win.  Although things have gone a little Akramam on them.
Huge appeal for LBW on the next to last ball of the evening from Waqar.

NZ 39/3

Akram 10 - 3 - 3 - 16

Good News for Pakistan:
Inzamam.  Hopefuly things will stay in the inzamam-o-matic gear for
more than just NZ.  How's that for a New Year's prediction?

Danny Morrison, in addition to his 5/~45, has batted twice today.
He came in as the nightwatchman and watched Akram.  When was the
last time you remember that happening in a non-follow-on situation?
(Getting out twice on the same day)

I trust Andrew Willmott will provide more details.

j n a
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From: penglish@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Paul English)
Subject: Re: Aus vs. Windies. Where is Bruce Reid?
Organization: Macquarie University, Australia.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:21:02 GMT

Bruce Reid has an injured shoulder and will be out for some time.  I heard
he is in some doubt of making it back for the remaining tests in this
series, but should be recovered for the ashes tour, should the selectors
want to risk him.

I don't think anyone doubts Bruce Reid's ability, but there has to be some
question about whether he can be risked on an overseas tour such as the
coming series against England.  At least when at home it is easy to bring
in a replacement.  For mine, I'd still pick him if fit and fly in a
replacement if necessary.  Note Bruce Reid has never played every test in
a series because of some injury.

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From: iam@CS.Stanford.EDU (Ian A. Mason)
Subject:  boxing day test
Followup-To: no recent postings
Keywords:  many questions, no answers.
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 00:50:58 GMT

i know its summer holidays, but surely someone
in oz can post the scores. however brief, no?

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From: vmm@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Vishv Malhotra)
Subject: Re: Kapil Dev : The Haryana Hurricane.
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:49:04 GMT

It amazes me to see Kapil being associated with Haryana.
Does he play for it?

Or, is it that Chandigarh has been given to Haryana?


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From: jkleins@gwdgv1.gwdg.de
Subject: Re: Kapil Dev
Reply-To: jkleins@gwdgv1.gwdg.de
Organization: GWDG Goettingen, F.R.Germany
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:00:56 GMT

In article <1hqlsdINN4ul@ceres.kingston.ac.uk>, cs_a154@ceres.kingston.ac.uk (Umesh Vaghela) writes:
>I think Azhar has seen his last days as Captain of India.
>In my opinion, Kapil is definatively going to be the captain in the
>coming series against England.
>
>We will also see some new faces that have performed brilliantly in
>Ranji.
>
>Umesh.

I heard on the BBC news that Sunil Gavaskar made a pretty strong
criticism about the current Indian cricket team (after their loss
to SA in the third test). Does anyone have more details about it.
I would verymuch like to know.

Thanks verymuch in advance and regards

Swamy
From: sjasthi@cse.unl.edu (srinivas jasthi)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Aus Vs WI final scores after 2nd day of 3rd test.
Date: 3 Jan 1993 23:46:25 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
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            Australia are in a very strong position after 2nd day having
made 503/9 decl also captured vital wicket of simmons.


Australia 1st Innings:

   M.A. Taylor c Murray b Bishop.......20
   D.C. Boon c Murray b Adams ........ 76
   S.R. Waugh c Simmons b Ambrose.....100
   M.E. Waugh run out .................57
   D.R. Martyn b Ambrose .............. 0
   A.R. Border c Murray b Hooper ......74
   G.R. Matthews c Murray b Hooper ....79
   I.A. Healy not out .................36
   M.G. Hughes c Haynes b Bishop .. ...17
   S.K. Warne c Simmons b Hooper.......14
   Extras (lb23, b2, nb5)  ............30
   Total (9 wkts dec) ............... 503

   Did not bat: C.J.McDermott.

   Fall of wickets: 1-42, 2-160, 3-254, 4-261, 5-270, 6-425,
                    7-440, 8-469, 9-503

   Bowling: Ambrose 35-8-87-2, Bishop 36-6-87-2, Walsh 30-8-86-0,
            Hooper 45.4-6-137-3, Adams 15-2-56-1, Simmons 10-2-25-0.

   Overs: 171.4


West Indies 1st Innings:

   D.L. Haynes not out ................16
   P.V. Simmons c Taylor b McDermott....3
   R.B. Richardson not out..............3
   Extras (lb2)  .......................2
   Total (1 wkt) ......................24

   Fall of wicket: 1-13

   Bowling: McDermott 4-0-8-1, Hughes 2-0-13-0, Matthews 2-1-1-0

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From: cen466p@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (S. Parthasarhathy)
Subject: AUS-WI, MCG, D4 Drinks, AUS-II 54-3
Organization: Dept. of Chem. Engg., Monash University, Australia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:05:52 GMT

D4  -  1 hr after Start -- Drinks
Australia I Innings :    395. Mark Waugh 112  Border 110,  Healy 24
Walsh 4-91, Ambrose 3-70, Bishop 3-83
HL: 204 run, 5th wkt partnership between M. Waugh and Border

West Indies I Innings:   233 allout (D3, just after tea)
Haynes b M. Hughes 7               Simmons c Boon b M. Hughes 6
Riche c Healy b M. Hughes 15       Lara lbw  Whitney         52
Hooper c & b S.Waugh       3       Arthurton c Healy b McDer 71
Williams c Healy b McDerm  0       Bihop b McDermott          9
Ambrose c McDer..  b Warne 7       J Adams c Boon b McDermot 47
Walsh n.o                  0       Sundries 16
FOW 1-11, 2-28, 3-33, 4-139, 5-144, 6-192, 7-192, 8-206, 9-233, 10-233
M Hughes 19-5-51-3 McDermott 25.1-8-66-4  Warne 24-7-65-1
Whitney 13-4-27-1 S.Waugh 4-1-14-1
HL:M.Hughes 150 wkts (Riche); 106 run ptnship Lara-Arthurton (4th wkt)

AUS II innings:           54 for 3 (D4, 1 hr -- Drinks)
David Boon b Simmons      11        Warne (NW) c A'ton b Ambrose   5
S.Waugh c Simmons b Bishop 1
Mark Taylor n.o           25
M. Waugh    n.o            6
Sundries 6
(?) Ambrose 12-3-15-1  Bishop 12-2-23-1  Walsh 7-3-9-0  Simmons 6-5-2-1

IND-SA, 3rd Test at Port Elizabeth  D3 Lunch
IND I 212              SA  I 275 (Cronje 135)
IND II 71-6 (IND 40 for 6 at one stage. Kapil and P'kar at the crease)

PAK-NZ (2 OD, at Napier, NZ). Rain affected. Max 42 overs
PAK 136 for 8 (Salim Malik 39, Miandad 17, Inzamam - 2)
NZ  137 for 4 in 37+overs. NZ won by 6 wkts.
-- 

Paarthaa
ChemEngg
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From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi)
Subject: Re: Pak in Controversy again?
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 00:14:02 GMT

In article <22DEC199212502689@zeus.tamu.edu>, m0a1530@zeus.tamu.edu (ABBAS, MUSTAFA) writes:
> Yesterday in BBC Sports round up it was mentioend that pak has objected
> to the oppointment of Tom Graveney as match refree for the pak-WI series
> because of the comments   he made during a series in pak 5 years ago.
> Pak has instead proposed Gavaskar, Patuadi, and some NZer for the job.
> There was no mention of what comments Tom had made. It  seems that Tom
> Graveney will be replaced.Does any body know what comments Tom had made?

At the time of the Shakoor Rana-Mike Gatting incident, Graveney had
said that Pakistanis had been cheating for 40 years. This caused quite
a bit of anger in Pakistani circles. 

I must say that the ICC sometimes (often?) makes very little sense.
Earlier they appointed a match referee (I can not remember
the man's name) for a match at Peshawar. Now this referee in his
playing days had physically beaten up a Pakistani umpire called Idrees
Baig (?). Understandably there was a lot of tension over this
appointment. 

We now have Graveney who does not have a lot of respect amongst the
Pakistanis. Surely the ICC can find other people? What is the
controversy? After all Pakistan is nominating a NZer for a series to
be played in NZ! Why not Gavaskar or Pataudi? Or Lloyd?

The underlying reason for making this public at this time is what
happened with umpire Constant in 1987. Pakistan politely and privately
requested, before the start of the tour, that Constant be removed from
the panel because of the Sikandar Bakht decision in 1982. The TCCB was
extremely rude to the Pakistani request, turned it down flatly and
moreover publicly accused them of all sorts of misconduct. The tour manager
Haseeb Ahsan felt betrayed. The entire 1987 tour thus became a battle
between Haseeb and the TCCB. 

	--SAN
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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Re: WI/Pak ODI
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:36:51 GMT

In <BzqDH8.8A1@uceng.uc.edu> bnataraj@uceng.uc.edu (Bhaskar Natarajan) writes:

>>> BTW, which was the old record for the most economical bowling in ODI's?  Was
>>> it Bedi's 12 overs for something like 5 or 7 against East Africa in 1979?  Or
>>> did somebody else have better figures?
>>> 
>>	It was Bishen Bedi. 12 overs, 2 for 6.

>    
>    Does someone recall Walsh's bowling figures against SL at Sharjah some 
>5-6 yrs ago ? It was quite unbelievable, but was it the record ?


	It was 5-1, i.e. 5 wkts. for 1 run, but probably not off 10 overs.
Otherwise it surely would be the record. He had 4-0 at one stage, and
Tillekeratne spoiled it by taking a single! Awesome spell, that!

>Cheers,
>Bhaskar


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Subject: Pak vs NZ
From: andriopo@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Peter Andriopoulos)
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 07:26:56 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia

NZ all out 108 (40 overs)
Xref: sparky rec.sport.cricket:18249 soc.culture.sri-lanka:1529
From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
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Subject: Ranatunga : Will Lead Lankans in England... 
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:07:19 GMT

     Sri Lankan selectors announced today that  Arjuna Ranatunga will
lead the team for England's tour in March. The itinerary for the tour
by England has not been finalized, but the teams are expected to play
one Test and two one-day internationals.

    The 29-year-old left arm batsman who led Sri Lanka to their first
Test win against New Zealand  earlier this month will  also lead the
side in a three-nation one-day tournament in Sharjah in February. Sri
Lankans will play alongside World Cup champions Pakistan and Zimbabwe
in Sharjah.

    A young Sri-Lankan team (Under 24) is to visit  South Africa soon.
Sri Lanka  have included six Test players in their Under-24 squad for
this month-long tour in the new year.

    Test batsman Sanath Jayasuriya (23yrs) will be the captain of the
team.  Also in the team are Test players Marvan Atapattu, Romesh Kalu-
vitharne, Muttiah  Muralitharan, Pramodaya  Wickramasinghe and D ulip
Liyanage.

Vicky:
UMass,Dec 22

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From: m0a1530@zeus.tamu.edu (ABBAS, MUSTAFA)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Pak in Controversy again?
Date: 22 Dec 1992 12:50 CST
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Yesterday in BBC Sports round up it was mentioend that pak has objected
to the oppointment of Tom Graveney as match refree for the pak-WI series
because of the comments   he made during a series in pak 5 years ago.
Pak has instead proposed Gavaskar, Patuadi, and some NZer for the job.
There was no mention of what comments Tom had made. It  seems that Tom
Graveney will be replaced.Does any body know what comments Tom had made?
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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Re: India defeated England in ODI series 93
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:27:20 GMT

In <1992Dec31.001430.5240@news.acns.nwu.edu> sidi@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Sadiq Yusuf) writes:

>In article <C02BrG.2HG@babbage.ece.uc.edu> saji@thor.ece.uc.edu (Sandeep  Aji) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec29.060803.12373@sco.COM>, pradeep@sco.COM (Pradeep Subramaniam) writes:
>>|> In article <Bzyp0I.4ou@babbage.ece.uc.edu> saji@snert.ece.uc.edu (Sandeep  Aji) writes:
>>|> >In article <1992Dec26.062119.23709@sco.COM>, pradeep@sco.COM (Pradeep Subramaniam) writes:
>>|> >

[.....]

>	More like a few centuries :-) :-) Really, how many Canadian
>_players_ are there in the majors ?? I think I read someplace that there
>were less than a handful last season. ( 5 perhaps ??) OTOH, if there was a
>united south-American team, it might give the US a fight. And some
>individual countries ( like Venezuala, Cuba etc )have produced lots of good
>players too - many more than Canada has. 



	INDIA  defeated ENGLAND in 1993 ??!!??

P.S. Err... back to cricket, boys! :->

Neeran [Go Kirbeeeee, Go Daveeeee] Karnik :->


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From: axeman@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (Samir Chopra)
Subject: India/South Africa 3rd Test Result
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:21:16 GMT

Just got this off misc.news.southasia:


DEC 29: 930pm DD news
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CRICKET: India loss cricket test despite Kapil's magnificient century
Scores: India: 212 and 217 (Kapil 129)
		SA 275 and 153 for 1


I have a question for any South African netters that might have
watched the South African 2nd innings:

Given that Raju and Kumble were effective in the first innings,
how does one explain that a full day later, on a pitch that
should have worn a little bit, the same pair seemed to have had
no effect whatsoever? Were they really off the mark or did the
RSA batsmen just play them really well? Or?

Thanks for any info.

later,

Samir
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