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Pakistan’s innings, in the presence of a full house at Lord’s, could be regarded as an anti-climax for the NatWest Series final. The combined pace and spin attack of Australia dismissed them in just 42.3 overs for a modest 152.Pakistan failed to match the flying start they got off to in their previous match when they had 61 on the board without loss. This morning they lost four wickets before reaching that score with Australia striking important early blows. The opening batsmen were both dismissed in the first hour’s play within fifteen overs.Despite choosing to bat first in fine condtions – it was sunny and warm – on a pitch which had a tinge of green on it and offered some pace and bounce, Pakistan batsmen were unable to settle in.Salim Elahi was the first to fall, with the total on 28, getting an outside edge to a ball from Glenn McGrath which appeared to be lifting a little. After the addition of 19 runs, Saeed Anwar played a poor shot, lofting the ball to mid-off and Pakistan were two wickets down for 47.There was further disasters for them when, with the total on 60, two wickets went down. Yousuf Youhana was sent back by Inzamam-ul-Haq, who has never been renowned for his running between the wickets, and Youhana had little chance of getting back as the direct hit came from Ricky Ponting.Four balls later, Brett Lee had Younis Khan caught low at first slip without scoring. Halfway through their knock – 25 overs – Pakistan were 78 for four and battling hard to steady the innings.Abdur Razzaq’s aggressive strokes brought him four quick boundaries but with Pakistan on 92, he mistimed his pull to be caught at short mid-wicket.With Inzamam and Azhar Mahmood going within eight runs of each other, both falling to the leg spin of Shane Warne, Pakistan were 110 for seven and any hopes that they may have held of a recovery were rapidly diminishing.Yet the highest partnership of the innings followed, with a 41-run stand. It ended with Rashid Latif being bowled by Warne for 23 with the total on 151. A run later the last two wickets fell with 7.3 overs still remaining.

	Bill Brown (right) walks out to bat with Don Bradman © Getty Images

Bill Brown, who was the only remaining link to Australia’s pre-World War Two Test era, has died at the age of 95. Brown was the country’s oldest living Test cricketer and the third oldest in the world, and his death leaves only four surviving members of the 1948 Invincibles squad – Arthur Morris, Sam Loxton, Neil Harvey and Ron Hamence. His health had steadily declined in the past few months and he died peacefully at an RSL home in Brisbane’s northern suburbs on Sunday.Although Brown’s career was often overshadowed by his better-known contemporaries – he played with the likes of Don Bradman, Bill Ponsford, Bill Woodfull and Stan McCabe – he was without doubt a first-rate opening batsman. His 22 Tests brought 1592 runs at 46.82 and he was given the honour of captaining Australia for their first Test after the war.He formed a prolific combination with Jack Fingleton and the pair averaged 63.75 in their opening stands in ten Tests. They were at their most damaging on the 1935-36 tour of South Africa, when they compiled three century partnerships including 233 in Cape Town, which remains a record for the first wicket in Australia-South Africa Tests.Brown’s personal pinnacle came at Lord’s on the 1938 Ashes tour, when he carried his bat for an unbeaten 206 in the first televised Test, a match that was also memorable for Wally Hammond’s 240. He had already scored 133 at Trent Bridge and he had such a successful tour that he was second only to Bradman in Australia’s list of aggregates and averages, and his 512 Test runs at 73.14 earned him a Cricketer of the Year award for 1939.A cautious opener, Brown took seriously the job description, which he later summarised as: “Stay there until lunch-time on the first day. The pace you scored at didn’t matter a darn.” His adherence to the team request might not have pleased all the fans, who were often left waiting for the appearance of Bradman at No. 3, but it did satisfy his team-mates and Australia won 14 of the 22 Tests in which Brown played.His three tours to England were all memorable for different reasons – he made his Test debut in 1934 in Nottingham and scored 73, which was followed by his maiden century in the next match at Lord’s. The 1938 visit earned him the honour, and ten years later he returned and at the age of 35 played two Tests during the Invincibles trip.By then his best days were behind him but he went on to play one more Australian summer as the captain of Queensland, his home state. Although he was born in Toowoomba in 1912, Brown had learned his cricket in New South Wales and made his first-class debut there in 1932-33.That was the season of Bodyline and in the lead-up to the fourth Test Brown got a taste of his international future when he played against the tourists for a New South Wales side. Brown, who was only 20, enjoyed the occasion by making 69 when Bradman, Fingleton and Alan Kippax all failed. “The grass looks greener, it’s a lovely day, the sun’s shining, I wouldn’t be anywhere else in the world,” Brown said in later years in the book , recalling how he felt when he discovered England were resting Harold Larwood, Gubby Allen and Bill Voce.”Prior to that I’d been lying in bed at night worrying. I had a fairly heavy bat, you see, and I’d thought, God, I’ll never get this up in time for Larwood, he’ll hit me fair between the eyes and that’ll be the end of me.”During World War II, Brown was an air-force pilot and he spent time serving in Darwin and New Guinea, so his recollections of the conflict were markedly different to those of his team-mate Keith Miller, who flew over Germany. “I class mine as a gentleman’s war,” Brown said. “Never got dirty doing anything.”Brown went on to become a selector for Queensland and Australia during the 1950s, and in later years he was known as a gentleman of Australian cricket and as an entertaining public speaker. He presented Adam Gilchrist and Scott Muller with their baggy-green caps in 1999 and repeated the occasion six years later at the Gabba when Michael Hussey debuted. Brown inherited the mantle as Australia’s oldest living Test cricketer from Bradman and that title has now passed to Hamence, who at 92 is one of the four remaining Invicibles.

Sri Lanka 294 for 7 (Sangakkara 81, Jayasuriya 77) beat Scotland 135 by 159 runs
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Kumar Sangakkara top-scored with 81 © Getty Images

Sri Lanka’s veteran batsmen proved too strong for Scotland’s bowlers in their warm-up match at the 3Ws Oval in Barbados, as Kumar Sangakkara and Sanath Jayasuriya rattled up an imposing total of 294 for 7 with a pair of brisk half-centuries. With Upul Tharanga anchoring the innings with a composed 70 from 114 balls, Scotland’s resolve crumbled as they were bowled out for 134 in reply.Sangakkara top-scored with 81 from 57 balls, but it was Jayasuriya – inevitably – who provided the turbo-charged start to Sri Lanka’s innings. He thumped four fours and five sixes in a 62-ball 77, with the captain, Craig Wright, coming in for special punishment: his solitary over was clubbed for 20 runs.Farveez Maharoof applied the finishing touch to Sri Lanka’s innings with 28 from 14 balls, including two fours and two sixes, and got in on the act with the ball as well, as he dismissed the dangerous Ryan Watson for 17. Scotland were never in the reckoning from the moment that Chaminda Vaas and Lasith Malinga grabbed three wickets for nine runs.Jayasuriya also enjoyed himself with the ball, taking 2 for 7 in two overs as Scotland’s innings ebbed away. After the game Sri Lanka’s captain, Mahela Jayawardene, said he was satisfied, but they can still raise the bar.”We had a great day out and we are pleased with the result at the end of theday,” he said. “We still can get better and we will be working on ourintensity. There were times today when we slackened of a bit, so we knowwhat we have to do come Friday.”Scotland’s captain, Wright, summed up the game as a “a great learningexperience” and said his players would come back stronger in the other matches.He praised his seamers John Blain, who took 2 for 51, and Dougie Brown (2for 52) for their discipline and smart use of the change of pace. He alsonoted that left-hander Gavin Hamilton played well for his 25 off 59, whichmanaged to keep out Muttiah Muralitharan.

Andrew Flintoff is Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in the World, with Shane Warne a close second © Wisden

Andrew Flintoff has been named as the Leading Cricketer in the World for 2005, as the 143rd edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack prepares to hit the bookshops tomorrow.The award, which was instituted two years ago and has previously been won by the Australian duo of Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne, was a reflection of Flintoff’s towering performance in last summer’s Ashes, a series that the editor, Matthew Engel, unequivocally describes as “the greatest”.”We took soundings from writers and commentators in all the cricketing countries, and there were only two people in it, Flintoff and Warne,” said Engel. “Our cover picture sums up the year as we saw it. Flintoff and Warne are shown embracing after the Ashes series – but the one is just a fraction above the other. We felt in the end that 2005 was the year when Freddie touched greatness.”Both men were ineligible for Wisden’s more traditional honours list: the Five Cricketers of the Year, which dates back to 1889 and is the oldest honour in cricket. By ancient custom, no-one can be chosen twice for this list, but each of the five recipients did nonetheless play their part in the Ashes: three for England, Matthew Hoggard, Simon Jones and Kevin Pietersen and two from Australia, Brett Lee and the captain, Ponting.’The Five’ invariably stir a debate among the cricket-watchers of the world, but as Engel points out, the criteria for selection is steeped in Wisden’s traditions of editorial independence. “The Five have never been the world’s top five,” he explained in The Times this week. “The choice is based on their influence on the English season, and successive editors have cut themselves enough slack to pick players who just happen to appeal to them. It has always been accepted that there is room for whimsy, idiosyncrasy or downright eccentricity. Cricket followers like that.”Cricket followers also liked the events of last summer, when England regained the Ashes after an 18-and-a-half-year gap, in a cliffhanger of a series that will echo down the ages. “It was a triumph for the real thing,” Engel wrote in his typically hard-hitting Notes by the Editor. “Five five-day Test matches between two gifted, well-matched teams playing fantastic cricket at high velocity and high pressure with the perfect mix of chivalry and venom. Here was the best game in the world, at its best.”To mark the occasion, Wisden has revved up its traditional coverage and introduced a special 72-page Ashes section – plus 12 colour plates. The coverage includes “Notes and Quotes” from each Test, reviews of the media by Quentin Letts and Malcolm Knox, afterthoughts by John Woodcock, Simon Hughes and the former Australian captain, Mark Taylor – and even an analysis of how the Ashes changed the English language.And several of the articles in the Comment section also derive directly from the Ashes:

“Suddenly, everything went Boom!” Roland Watson investigates whether the post-Ashes boom can really last.

“Next Botham: the quest ends”. Peter Hayter talks to the generation of pre-Flintoff England allrounders who had to endure endless comparisons with Ian Botham.

“The Beer is back”. Derek Pringle, once a pints-of-ale England fast bowler himself, tells how the Ashes series restored one of cricket’s happiest traditions.

Wisden goes supersize: a new larger-font edition is available for the first time this year © Wisden

And in keeping with a spirit of bigger and better, for the first time in its 143-year history, Wisden has gone supersize, with a special limited-edition large-print format. This is news that would have gladdened the heart of the late rogue Robert Maxwell, who briefly held the publishing rights to Wisden in the 1980s and haughtily announced that the book was going to change its shape. Wisden’s owners snatched the book back from him before he could do any damage.The difference is that this time there are no plans to abolish the familiar housebrick-sized almanack to make room for the new breezeblock version. “There is no thought whatever of abandoning the traditional Wisden, so no-one need worry about getting new bookshelves” said Engel. “This is just an experiment to see if readers are interested in an alternative.”Maxwell did have a point, and I’m sure if John Wisden had known in 1864 that the book would expand from 112 pages to 1600, he would have made them bigger in the first place. I believe a lot of older readers will be grateful for a more legible version. And maybe new readers will find it more attractive and be inspired to begin collecting Wisden.”The 2006 edition is intended as a celebration of the game, but as ever, the almanack’s long tradition of forthright criticism is maintained. In his Notes, Engel mocks the International Cricket Council for the failure of the Australia v World XI Super Series; blames the “delusion of expansion” for the unpalatable 47-day, 16-team format that will form next year’s World Cup in the Caribbean, and slams the “political gimmickry” that resulted in England’s Ashes squad being awarded blanket MBEs.But Wisden 2006 is about more than just the awards and the innovations. Did you hear about the Australian who was banned for calling a batsman “a Pommy git”? Or the strange case of the Bradman Chocolate Chip Cookies? Or how a block of ice, a flying sightscreen, a picnicking landlord, an angry stump-stealing motorist – and a frustrated bull – all stopped play? All these tales and more are included in the Chronicle section, while news from the far pavilions of the game – including Afghanistan, Mongolia and Niue Island – can be found in the Round the World section.The Wisden Almanack archive is now available online, at www.wisden.com, where it is now possible to search through a selection of key articles, including the Editor’s Notes, Cricketer of the Year essays and obituaries, as well authoritative reports of every international series, dating back to the first edition in 1864.

The standard of university first-class cricket is often derided, with the counties often fielding what amounts to a 2nd XI, and using the fixtures as a glorified net session. But Worcestershire were given a shock on Monday, when they became the first first-class victims of Loughborough UCCE.Loughborough dominated all three days at Kidderminster, winning by eight wickets in the end, after forcing Worcestershire to follow on. Richard Clinton struck a first-innings century – and was rapidly recalled to the Surrey squad for the injured Graham Thorpe – and added 197 for the first wicket with Edward Foster.After Loughborough had declared they then reduced Worcestershire to 0 for 3, as Stephen Peters, Stephen Moore and Ben Smith all failed to score. This was a weakened Worcestershire team – no Graeme Hick, Vikram Solanki, Chaminda Vaas or Kabir Ali – but they still included two Test cricketers in Zander de Bruyn, the South African allrounder, and Ray Price, the former Zimbabwe spinner.de Bruyn blasted 81 but Worcestershire subsided for just 133, with Steven Clark, a 22-year-old right-arm seamer, claiming a career-best 5 for 29. They fared only marginally better second time around as David Wainwright, a highly promising left-arm spinner who is on the Yorkshire staff, also took a career-best 4 for 48.Loughborough have been the strongest University Cricket Centre of Excellence – certainly in terms of their batting strength – for the last three years. They were not originally given first-class status, but this changed following a 2002 season in which they were not bowled out once in their three matches and passed 300 at least once against each county they played.Jimmy Adams, now opening the batting for Hampshire, is a Loughborough graduate, and Vikram Atri is on the Nottinghamshire staff. The university has also produced John Francis, who is now shoring up the Somerset top-order, and the seamer David Wigley at Worcestershire. The students have the advantage of being based at the home of the England Academy, and Loughborough is rapidly overtaking Cambridge and Oxford as the main source of university cricketers.Loughborough’s victory comes hot on the heels of Surrey’s defeat against Bradford/Leeds UCCE, and though that was not a first-class fixture, it shows they should not be taken lightly. Such a packed county fixture list means the big boys will continue to rest their main players in these games, but if they do they should be prepared for a shock.

Western Province has made sure of finishing at the top of the Standard Bank Cup table with a close win against Easterns at Newlands while Northerns, winning against Gauteng, can still finish on the same points but would have won fewer matches.The pace for the remaining two semi-finals hots up. Western Province (47 points) has finished its matches while Northerns (41) still has to face Free State at Centurion. Easterns (34) has a tough match against Border in Benoni while Gauteng (33) are at home to Border and away to KwaZulu-Natal.PointsTableWestern Province 244 for 6 (Ferreira 56, Duminy 88, Flusk 3-54) beat Easterns 235 for 5 (Z de Bruyn 68, Koenig 49, Seymore 41) by 9 runs
ScorecardWestern Province, batting first, came up against a determined Gareth Flusk who took the first three wickets of the innings leaving Province at 72 for 3 in the 17th over. At the end of the 35th over Lloyd Ferreira, scoring 56, and Jean-Paul Duminy, scoring 88, had taken the score to 169. The last ten overs added a further 75 to the total, setting Easterns 245 to win.A solid, but slow, opening partnership of 73 from Sven Koenig and Andre Seymore put Easterns under some pressure. Zander de Bruyn, Pierre de Bruyn and Darryll Cullinan took up the challenge and scoring at close to a run a ball brought Easterns to the brink of victory. Losing three wickets to run outs and needing 62 in the last five overs proved to be just too much. Northerns 206 for 3 (Petersen 50, de Villiers 59, van Jaarsveld 52*)beat Gauteng 205 (Harris 50, Thomas 4-31) by 7 wickets
ScorecardA collapse in the final ten overs saw Gauteng squander all the hard work done up front to be bowled out for 205 inside 45 overs. Having started off at a good pace they had laid a solid foundation of 180 for four when the final ten overs started. Losing six wickets for 25 runs virtually handed the game to Northerns. Alfonso Thomas, who had taken two early wickets, finished with four as he cleaned up the tail.Looking for a bonus point Alviro Petersen (50) and Abraham de Villiers (59) put on 85 for the first wicket and then de Villiers and Martin van Jaarsveld (52) put on 58 for the second wicket. Neil McKenzie and van Jaarsveld added a further 49 for Northerns to win in the 39th over.North West 248 for 6 (de Vos 65*, Rowley 62) beat FreeState 247 for 4 (van Wyk 107) by 4 wickets
ScorecardA magnificent 107 not out from Morne van Wyk boosted Free State hopes of a home win against North West in Bloemfontein. Scoring 247, with small contributions from the rest of the order and taking two early North West wickets, Free State seemed well on its way to a win.Then the tide turned. First there was a 73-run partnership between Ryan Bailey (41) and Davey Jacobs (41) that helped consolidate and then there was the match winning 102-run partnership between Dirkie de Vos (65) and Grant Rowley (62). Not having wona game since December 2002 North West had won twice in a weekend.

Opener Nick Knight continued his run spree to inspire England to 7-279 from its 50 overs against Sri Lanka in the series-shaping one-day match here today.Knight struck a stylish 88 and veteran Alec Stewart a half century as England compiled its competitive total in sweltering heat at Adelaide Oval.As temperatures hovered around 39 degrees Celsius, Knight was the star England performer in an encounter which will play a crucial role in deciding Australia’s opponent in the tri series finals.England entered the day-night encounter just one point ahead of Sri Lanka on the competition table, with both nations having two minor round matches remaining.After his captain Nasser Hussain won the toss and batted on a true Adelaide pitch, Knight demonstrated why he was the tri series’ leading runscorer by consistently finding gaps in the Lankan field.The lefthander, who entered today’s fixture with 352 runs at the imposing average of 70.40, struck just two fours and one six in his 112-ball stay today.Knight was sedate early as his opening partner Marcus Trescothick blasted 39 from 42 deliveries at the top of the innings.Trescothick was dismissed attempting a crude cross bat slog from Chamila Gamage’s bowling, bringing Michael Vaughan to the crease for his first one-day appearance this series.Showing no signs of a knee injury which flared after the Ashes series against Australia, Vaughan breezily struck 28 from 34 balls before mistiming a pull shot to be caught by Chaminda Vaas at wide mid-on from Dilhara Fernando’s bowling.Hussain made 18 before Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya snuck a delivery through bat and pad which clipped off stump.Knight fell soon after when caught behind from Vaas’ bowling and the next ball Ian Blackwell was adjudged lbw for a golden duck.Vaas was denied his hat-trick by Paul Collingwood, who combined with evergreen Stewart for a handy 54 run stand from 46 deliveries as the Englishmen lifted the tempo in the latter overs.Stewart finished with 51 from 59 balls and Collingwood 18, including a six.

This time last year, Glamorgan fans were drowning their sorrows in London afterGlamorgan`s defeat in the 2000 Benson and Hedges Cup final at Lord`s.A year later, June 9th and 10th, 2001 saw the champagne corks popping at Chelmsford after two of the most stunning victories in the club`s history, as the Welsh county`s batsmen rewrote many of the club`s batting records with two breathtaking runchases against Essex.On Saturday, Glamorgan successfully chased a target of 364 in 84 overs,reaching the target with nineteen balls to spare, thanks to 156 fromcaptain Steve James and 90 from Matthew Maynard.Their efforts resulted in Glamorgan equalling their record for their highest ever successful run chase in Championship history. In June 1990, they were set the same target by Hampshire, and thanks to a brutal century by Viv Richards, Glamorgan reached the target in the final over.But in this match at Southampton, the Welsh side had 102 overs in which tochase the target, 18 more than on Saturday at Chelmsford, and the run chase against Hampshire only came about after most of the second day had been washed out by rain, and the two captains had got their heads together on the final morning in an attempt to breath life in to the game.A month later, in July 1990 at Abergavenny, Glamorgan were involved in another huge run chase on the final day of their game against Worcestershire. Their target was 495 in 88 overs, and after centuries by Alan Butcher and Hugh Morris, plus half-centuries by Robert Croft and Nigel Cowley, Glamorgan fell just two runs short of their target in a nerve-jangling contest that ended in a draw.Looking now at yesterday`s remarkable National League game at Chelmsford, Glamorgan defeated Essex after being set a target of 254 in 34 overs under the Duckworth-Lewis method. An aggressive 97 by Keith Newell, plus an unbeaten 87 from Matthew Maynard saw the Welshmen home, with thirteen balls to spare.This was not Glamorgan`s highest ever score batting second in the competition, as in 1992 they scored 263-3 to defeat Northamptonshire at Luton. But in this game, the Welsh county had 38 overs at their disposal, making yesterday`s victory at Chelmsford a superior one in terms of runs per over, as they chased a target of 7.47 runs per over, compared with 6.92 at Luton.Their previous best one-day victory in terms of run rate came at Northampton in May 1998, once again after rain and a re-calculation using the Duckworth-Lewis method. Glamorgan`s target was 174 in 24 overs, at an asking rate of 7.25, and a cavalier 77 by Tony Cottey off just 42 balls saw Glamorgan home by five wickets with three balls to spare.

Najam Sethi, the PCB executive committee head, has announced a five-team franchise-based Twenty20 league to be held from February 4 to 24 next year in Doha, Qatar. The teams would be from the provincial capitals – Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and Islamabad – with prize money of $1 million.The PCB had initially planned to host the league in the UAE, Pakistan’s virtual home since 2009. However, when the PCB approached the Emirates Cricket Board to secure the venues during the third week of June, they learned that the organisers of the Masters Champions League – a tournament for retired international cricketers – had already booked the stadiums for the February window.”After extensive negotiations with various stakeholders, the Pakistan Super League governing council has decided to lock Doha as its preferred location for the tournament,” Sethi said in Lahore. “The five-team tournament will take place in February next year with a total of 24 matches scheduled to take place in the first edition. We are starting with five teams in order to build the value of our franchises and will expand the number of teams in the coming editions.”The signing of players for the league is yet to be finalised but Sethi informed that the PCB had engaged with player agents and are hoping that “top players” from every Full Member country other than India will be part of the league.”Top foreign players from all Test-playing nations except India have expressed interest in signing up for the PSL,” Sethi said. “As of now, the PSL team has consent from over 40 international players. In addition, top foreign coaches are also being roped in for the first edition of the PSL. The tournament will carry collective prize money of up to $ 1 million.”The latest plan for the league isn’t as high profile as the previous one during Zaka Ashraf’s regime under which the business model – unveiled in January 2013 – was expected to fetch the PCB “in excess of $100 million”.

Roy Hodgson has named his England squad for their friendly with Italy next week and it seems he is more than willing at giving the youngsters an opportunity to show their worth.

Hodgson, naming his first squad since England’s European Championships campaign, has decided the trip to Switzerland is the perfect opportunity to give the next generation of England squads a chance with Tottenham duo Steven Caulker and Jake Livermore joined in the squad by Jack Rodwell, Jack Butland, Ryan Bertrand, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Daniel Sturridge.

Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick is also recalled to the international stage after rejecting the chance to be on the standby list for this summer Euros, a list that included Adam Johnson who has also made the squad.

Very much an experimental squad, Frank Lampard is given a chance to show Hodgson that he still has a lot to offer after missing the bulk of the Euros with injury along with Kyle Walker and Gary Cahill who are also recalled.

The likes of John Terry, Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney have all been left out along with regulars Ashley Cole and Glen Johnson. It seems Rio Ferdinand’s England career is over after he is once again not included.

Squad for friendly v Italy:

Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Manchester City), Jack Butland (Birmingham City), John Ruddy (Norwich City).

Defenders: Leighton Baines (Everton), Ryan Bertrand (Chelsea), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Steven Caulker (Tottenham Hotspur), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).

Midfielders: Michael Carrick (Manchester United), Tom Cleverley (Manchester United), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Adam Johnson (Manchester City), Jake Livermore (Tottenham Hotspur), James Milner (Manchester City), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Jack Rodwell (Everton), Ashley Young (Manchester United).

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