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Quote from: Bd officer on August 22, 2023, 10:27:35 PM

Ireland vs India
Today is the 3rd match of Ireland vs India series. India won the first 2 matches. 1st match was not played fully due to rain DLS Method India won by 2 runs, India won the 2nd match by 33 runs. India's bowling and batting line is better than Ireland's. Ireland, a small team, will not easily win against a strong team like India. Today I think India will win, Ireland will be whitewashed today.

Ireland as a small team they play well against big teams like India. Ireland were chasing runs well in the 2nd match if Sterling and Trucker got the runs the turn of the match would have spoken in Ireland's favour. Although they eventually lost the match. Not only do Ireland admire the team but they play against the big teams. On the other hand, India's batsmen and bowlers are in great form. I agree with you that Team India will whitewash Ireland today. Ireland will also be desperate to win the final match of the series with India today to avoid the shame of their whitewash.

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Ireland vs India
Today is the 3rd match of Ireland vs India series. India won the first 2 matches. 1st match was not played fully due to rain DLS Method India won by 2 runs, India won the 2nd match by 33 runs. India's bowling and batting line is better than Ireland's. Ireland, a small team, will not easily win against a strong team like India. Today I think India will win, Ireland will be whitewashed today.

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I think that the UAE just wants to promote cricket in the country in the form of business. Not as something in which they can improve. They are making everything in a business model. So that they can generate good revenue in the future from it.

In Asia, especially in the subcontinent, cricket is very big. But it is not as big in the Middle East. Probably they are trying to be the one to actually make cricket popular in the Middle East. That is also going to give them a good amount of money if they are actually successful to do it. But they have to realize that their own population is not going to support the national team that they have if they do not have even a single native player.

If they promote it as a business model, then I am OK with it. But then, the business model should be legitimate. A lot of match fixing actually originates from GCC nations, especially the United Arab Emirates. Criminals such as Dawood Ibrahim have made some of the cities there, such as Sharjah and Dubai as hubs for this illegitimate activity. The ICC and BCCI tend to turn a blind eye, since Emirates Cricket Board is very rich and powerful. But all this should not come at the expenses of more deserving associate nations such as Nepal and Namibia.

I am not going to say much. I am only going to say one thing. If you were politically powerful, or if you actually have a lot of money, you can get away with a lot of things in this life. That is exactly what has been happening all around the world. I am not even saying that the ICC is 100% honest as well.

Quote from: Juggy777 on August 22, 2023, 09:36:16 AM

@DanWalker I won’t be surprised if they’re planning something on the lines of IPL because they know that cricket loving fan’s will travel to watch these matches hence they’re just testing the waters now and planning for something big in the long run. Furthermore I see nothing wrong in their business model as we’re coming from covid and war era and every country need’s more revenues hence I don’t think that we can criticise them on this particular topic.

We are not criticizing the business strategy. We are criticizing the lack of rules from the ICC about having 11 players from abroad playing in the “national team”. The UAE is definitely going to do business and they know how to make good revenue. And they are going to take every legal shortcut that they can.

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The series with New Zealand is organized by the UAE at the cost of money because at the moment the UAE wants to improve the cricket in their country. While various Asian countries are doing very well in cricket, Dubai is far behind in cricket. Financially, the United Arab Emirates is a very developed country, so I don't think the United Arab Emirates will feel any hesitation in spending money to improve the cricket of its country. With the kind of cricketers currently in the UAE, the UAE will surely want to add new talented cricketers to their team. UAE, India, Pakistan can form a balance team in their country with some players from Bangladesh to develop their country's cricket. Right now apart from building a balance team they need to build several cricket academies from where they get good quality cricketers every year.

If they really want to grow cricket in their country, then they should encourage the native players. Depending on first-class players from India and Pakistan may work well on the short term. But in the long run, it will do more harm than good. A few months back, several of the UAE players were handed down life-bans for match fixing. The main reason is that these players don't have any sort of loyalty towards the country for which they are playing for, because they are not citizens. The same can be said about other countries in the GCC region, such as Oman, Qatar and Kuwait.

I think that the UAE just wants to promote cricket in the country in the form of business. Not as something in which they can improve. They are making everything in a business model. So that they can generate good revenue in the future from it.

In Asia, especially in the subcontinent, cricket is very big. But it is not as big in the Middle East. Probably they are trying to be the one to actually make cricket popular in the Middle East. That is also going to give them a good amount of money if they are actually successful to do it. But they have to realize that their own population is not going to support the national team that they have if they do not have even a single native player.

As the United Arab Emirates is a financially prosperous country, if they provide facilities and financial allowances to the cricketers in their country, it is possible to take their country's cricket to the world stage. After the 2015 World Cup, I read a report about the UAE cricketers. The report was made in such a way that before the start of the World Cup tournament qualifiers, various cricketers in the United Arab Emirates were busy with different jobs, some cricketers worked as laborers and some cricketers worked for other companies. If the cricketers of a country are in such a situation then the development of cricket in that country is never possible even though this incident was long ago. The UAE must first ensure maximum facilities for the players. Apart from ensuring maximum facilities to the players, the cricketers have to be busy playing bilateral series most of the year. If the UAE plans this way, it will be able to boost cricket in their country.

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The series with New Zealand is organized by the UAE at the cost of money because at the moment the UAE wants to improve the cricket in their country. While various Asian countries are doing very well in cricket, Dubai is far behind in cricket. Financially, the United Arab Emirates is a very developed country, so I don't think the United Arab Emirates will feel any hesitation in spending money to improve the cricket of its country. With the kind of cricketers currently in the UAE, the UAE will surely want to add new talented cricketers to their team. UAE, India, Pakistan can form a balance team in their country with some players from Bangladesh to develop their country's cricket. Right now apart from building a balance team they need to build several cricket academies from where they get good quality cricketers every year.

If they really want to grow cricket in their country, then they should encourage the native players. Depending on first-class players from India and Pakistan may work well on the short term. But in the long run, it will do more harm than good. A few months back, several of the UAE players were handed down life-bans for match fixing. The main reason is that these players don't have any sort of loyalty towards the country for which they are playing for, because they are not citizens. The same can be said about other countries in the GCC region, such as Oman, Qatar and Kuwait.

I think that the UAE just wants to promote cricket in the country in the form of business. Not as something in which they can improve. They are making everything in a business model. So that they can generate good revenue in the future from it.

In Asia, especially in the subcontinent, cricket is very big. But it is not as big in the Middle East. Probably they are trying to be the one to actually make cricket popular in the Middle East. That is also going to give them a good amount of money if they are actually successful to do it. But they have to realize that their own population is not going to support the national team that they have if they do not have even a single native player.

@DanWalker I won’t be surprised if they’re planning something on the lines of IPL because they know that cricket loving fan’s will travel to watch these matches hence they’re just testing the waters now and planning for something big in the long run. Furthermore I see nothing wrong in their business model as we’re coming from covid and war era and every country need’s more revenues hence I don’t think that we can criticise them on this particular topic.

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Quote from: DanWalker on August 22, 2023, 05:56:16 AM

I think that the UAE just wants to promote cricket in the country in the form of business. Not as something in which they can improve. They are making everything in a business model. So that they can generate good revenue in the future from it.

In Asia, especially in the subcontinent, cricket is very big. But it is not as big in the Middle East. Probably they are trying to be the one to actually make cricket popular in the Middle East. That is also going to give them a good amount of money if they are actually successful to do it. But they have to realize that their own population is not going to support the national team that they have if they do not have even a single native player.

If they promote it as a business model, then I am OK with it. But then, the business model should be legitimate. A lot of match fixing actually originates from GCC nations, especially the United Arab Emirates. Criminals such as Dawood Ibrahim have made some of the cities there, such as Sharjah and Dubai as hubs for this illegitimate activity. The ICC and BCCI tend to turn a blind eye, since Emirates Cricket Board is very rich and powerful. But all this should not come at the expenses of more deserving associate nations such as Nepal and Namibia.

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Quote from: Patrol69 on August 22, 2023, 01:26:34 AM

The series with New Zealand is organized by the UAE at the cost of money because at the moment the UAE wants to improve the cricket in their country. While various Asian countries are doing very well in cricket, Dubai is far behind in cricket. Financially, the United Arab Emirates is a very developed country, so I don't think the United Arab Emirates will feel any hesitation in spending money to improve the cricket of its country. With the kind of cricketers currently in the UAE, the UAE will surely want to add new talented cricketers to their team. UAE, India, Pakistan can form a balance team in their country with some players from Bangladesh to develop their country's cricket. Right now apart from building a balance team they need to build several cricket academies from where they get good quality cricketers every year.

If they really want to grow cricket in their country, then they should encourage the native players. Depending on first-class players from India and Pakistan may work well on the short term. But in the long run, it will do more harm than good. A few months back, several of the UAE players were handed down life-bans for match fixing. The main reason is that these players don't have any sort of loyalty towards the country for which they are playing for, because they are not citizens. The same can be said about other countries in the GCC region, such as Oman, Qatar and Kuwait.

I think that the UAE just wants to promote cricket in the country in the form of business. Not as something in which they can improve. They are making everything in a business model. So that they can generate good revenue in the future from it.

In Asia, especially in the subcontinent, cricket is very big. But it is not as big in the Middle East. Probably they are trying to be the one to actually make cricket popular in the Middle East. That is also going to give them a good amount of money if they are actually successful to do it. But they have to realize that their own population is not going to support the national team that they have if they do not have even a single native player.

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At this time if we don't talk about T20 cricket so this is impossible. Anyway, we are talking about the T20 series of Australia vs South Africa. So, a total of three T20 and five ODI are played between them. But we are talking about T20. So, both are epic teams according to T20 and if both teams are epic so we need also an epic captain who is the captain? Mitchell March is the captain of Australia. Temba Bavuma is the captain of South Africa.

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Quote from: Cheema02 on August 22, 2023, 12:51:41 AM

India won the 2nd T20 by 33 runs and lead the series by 2-0. India gives a decent target of 186 runs to Ireland that is impossible to chase. Ruturaj Gaikwad scored fifty runs and 58 runs in just 43 balls. While chasing down the target Ireland only manage to score 152 runs in a loss of 8 Wickets in 20 overs. Andrew Balbirnie Ireland player fight well scoring 72 runs in 51 runs but short 33 runs to this historic win against India. The player of the match is Rinku Singh for an amazing batting performance scored 38 runs in 21 balls. India is already leading the 3 Macth series by 2-0. I hope Ireland comes back strong in the Last T20.

India surprised everyone in their 2nd T20 victory because anyone would have backed Ireland for the win at first but India managed to come back to catch up with Ireland so that in the end the advantage was able to get to the Indian team.
If Ireland does not regain strength and tries to catch up to India, then the next T20 match is still likely to be won again by India so that Ireland will find it difficult to catch up with India, which is getting farther ahead.
In that match from the start I myself could not believe that India was able to catch up and get the lead but thanks to Ruturaj Gaikwad a young cricketer who also plays with the Maharashtra team in domestic cricket and the Chennai Super Kings team in the Indian Premier League.

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Quote from: Patrol69 on August 22, 2023, 01:26:34 AM

The series with New Zealand is organized by the UAE at the cost of money because at the moment the UAE wants to improve the cricket in their country. While various Asian countries are doing very well in cricket, Dubai is far behind in cricket. Financially, the United Arab Emirates is a very developed country, so I don't think the United Arab Emirates will feel any hesitation in spending money to improve the cricket of its country. With the kind of cricketers currently in the UAE, the UAE will surely want to add new talented cricketers to their team. UAE, India, Pakistan can form a balance team in their country with some players from Bangladesh to develop their country's cricket. Right now apart from building a balance team they need to build several cricket academies from where they get good quality cricketers every year.

If they really want to grow cricket in their country, then they should encourage the native players. Depending on first-class players from India and Pakistan may work well on the short term. But in the long run, it will do more harm than good. A few months back, several of the UAE players were handed down life-bans for match fixing. The main reason is that these players don't have any sort of loyalty towards the country for which they are playing for, because they are not citizens. The same can be said about other countries in the GCC region, such as Oman, Qatar and Kuwait.

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What is the purpose of this series? New Zealand never tours any of the associate nations. This time they agreed to tour the United Arab Emirates, only because they have been offered a lot of money. And the UAE team didn't had a single national playing for them. Fans attended the match only to watch New Zealand stars playing. Hardly anyone was cheering for the UAE team and not a single citizen of that country was present in the stands. With their insane eligibility laws, the ICC has created a mockery of international cricket.

UAE is not even have a test status like Afghanistan or Ireland still they manage to have a series against mighty NZ. Its true that teams like Oman and UAE who are quite up in ranking among associate nations don't have any single native player. The team is entirely composed of players who are on work visa to UAE. ICC don't have any objections on such series as long as they are getting money.

Who is getting money in this case? Since the series was held in the United Arab Emirates, so the beneficiary in this case is UAE ? However i don't think that the UAE needs money, they are a very rich nation.

ICC would better get more money in NZ plays with Australia or India in the UAE, rather than the UAE playing themselves when they even do not have enough native players with them.

The series with New Zealand is organized by the UAE at the cost of money because at the moment the UAE wants to improve the cricket in their country. While various Asian countries are doing very well in cricket, Dubai is far behind in cricket. Financially, the United Arab Emirates is a very developed country, so I don't think the United Arab Emirates will feel any hesitation in spending money to improve the cricket of its country. With the kind of cricketers currently in the UAE, the UAE will surely want to add new talented cricketers to their team. UAE, India, Pakistan can form a balance team in their country with some players from Bangladesh to develop their country's cricket. Right now apart from building a balance team they need to build several cricket academies from where they get good quality cricketers every year.

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Other than Ireland batsman Andrew Balbirnie, no other batsman could play better. If any batsman could associate with Ireland's Andrew Balbirnie. Then Ireland could have won this match. I think Ireland is a weaker team than India. As a weak side, Ireland did not lose by a wide margin against India. Ireland lost this match against India by 33 runs. If the last order batting performance of the Ireland team could have done a bit better, they could have easily made up the deficit of 33 runs and won the match.

Exactly He(Andrew Balbirnie) don't has a good partnership with him. If he finds any good partner from the team so I am also sure that they can beat India easily. Because only Andrew Balbirnie made 72 runs alone by himself with 5 Fours and 4 sixes. In my point of view he played really well. By the way tomorrow is the last match let's see who will win India already won the series.

India won the 2nd T20 by 33 runs and lead the series by 2-0. India gives a decent target of 186 runs to Ireland that is impossible to chase. Ruturaj Gaikwad scored fifty runs and 58 runs in just 43 balls. While chasing down the target Ireland only manage to score 152 runs in a loss of 8 Wickets in 20 overs. Andrew Balbirnie Ireland player fight well scoring 72 runs in 51 runs but short 33 runs to this historic win against India. The player of the match is Rinku Singh for an amazing batting performance scored 38 runs in 21 balls. India is already leading the 3 Macth series by 2-0. I hope Ireland comes back strong in the Last T20.

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I am concerned with the rapid decline in the quality of Irish cricket. This time they had most of their star players available, and yet they failed to compete in a meaningful way against India. Andy Balbirnie, Paul Stirling, Lorcan Tucker, Harry Tector, Josh Little and Craig Young were available for this match, while India had a relatively young and inexperienced squad. If they still lose by such a big margin, and that too while playing at home, then it gives a bad impression. The justification of granting test status to Ireland (and thereby access to 20x more funds) looks increasingly shaky.

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In the Ireland vs India team match, India team batted first and set a target of 185 runs. Ruturaj Gaikwad scored 58 runs off 43 balls. Samson scored 40 runs off 26 balls. India team batsmen played very well in batting. However, Ireland performed very poorly in bowling and batting line. Ireland team batsman Andrew Balbirnie got out with 72 runs off 51 balls. Andrew Balbirnie could have completed 100 runs if he could have played a few more overs but he got out before that. I was the supporter of India team in this match.

Other than Ireland batsman Andrew Balbirnie, no other batsman could play better. If any batsman could associate with Ireland's Andrew Balbirnie. Then Ireland could have won this match. I think Ireland is a weaker team than India. As a weak side, Ireland did not lose by a wide margin against India. Ireland lost this match against India by 33 runs. If the last order batting performance of the Ireland team could have done a bit better, they could have easily made up the deficit of 33 runs and won the match.

Ireland's batsmen mostly batted poorly and eventually lost to India by a big margin. Although India is a strong enough team than Ireland, Ireland tried hard to win the match against India, but could not win the match due to the poor performance of Ireland's batsmen. It is true that Ireland's batsman Andrew Balbirnie batted brilliantly, his batting was outstanding, he scored 72 runs alone. If any of the batsmen could have batted well with him then Ireland would have won because there were not many runs left and only 33 runs would have won them. But most of Ireland's batsmen were not out, they could not stay at the crease for most of the time due to which the match went to India.

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Quote from: cozytrade on August 21, 2023, 06:25:58 PM

Other than Ireland batsman Andrew Balbirnie, no other batsman could play better. If any batsman could associate with Ireland's Andrew Balbirnie. Then Ireland could have won this match. I think Ireland is a weaker team than India. As a weak side, Ireland did not lose by a wide margin against India. Ireland lost this match against India by 33 runs. If the last order batting performance of the Ireland team could have done a bit better, they could have easily made up the deficit of 33 runs and won the match.

Exactly He(Andrew Balbirnie) don't has a good partnership with him. If he finds any good partner from the team so I am also sure that they can beat India easily. Because only Andrew Balbirnie made 72 runs alone by himself with 5 Fours and 4 sixes. In my point of view he played really well. By the way tomorrow is the last match let's see who will win India already won the series.

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Quote from: rojan on August 21, 2023, 03:53:32 AM

In the Ireland vs India team match, India team batted first and set a target of 185 runs. Ruturaj Gaikwad scored 58 runs off 43 balls. Samson scored 40 runs off 26 balls. India team batsmen played very well in batting. However, Ireland performed very poorly in bowling and batting line. Ireland team batsman Andrew Balbirnie got out with 72 runs off 51 balls. Andrew Balbirnie could have completed 100 runs if he could have played a few more overs but he got out before that. I was the supporter of India team in this match.

Other than Ireland batsman Andrew Balbirnie, no other batsman could play better. If any batsman could associate with Ireland's Andrew Balbirnie. Then Ireland could have won this match. I think Ireland is a weaker team than India. As a weak side, Ireland did not lose by a wide margin against India. Ireland lost this match against India by 33 runs. If the last order batting performance of the Ireland team could have done a bit better, they could have easily made up the deficit of 33 runs and won the match.

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UAE is not even have a test status like Afghanistan or Ireland still they manage to have a series against mighty NZ. Its true that teams like Oman and UAE who are quite up in ranking among associate nations don't have any single native player. The team is entirely composed of players who are on work visa to UAE. ICC don't have any objections on such series as long as they are getting money.

Who is getting money in this case? Since the series was held in the United Arab Emirates, so the beneficiary in this case is UAE ? However i don't think that the UAE needs money, they are a very rich nation.

ICC would better get more money in NZ plays with Australia or India in the UAE, rather than the UAE playing themselves when they even do not have enough native players with them.

In the name of development things will be gone in this way for the next few years because now Arabs are investing money for the new phase of their development and few countries which are having strong economies they are investing in soccer and UAE is having strong influence in cricket, so they are doing things for this game and in this useless series which was not beneficial for both sides but still this happens because of UAE influence in cricket.

Many peoples are rising their voice for this cause but in ICC no one hearing this, and they are bringing teams which have no native players which is surely not good for the spirit of the game but this all happening hopefully we will have good change in the future, and we will be able to have positive changes in our lives within this ICC.

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What is the purpose of this series? New Zealand never tours any of the associate nations. This time they agreed to tour the United Arab Emirates, only because they have been offered a lot of money. And the UAE team didn't had a single national playing for them. Fans attended the match only to watch New Zealand stars playing. Hardly anyone was cheering for the UAE team and not a single citizen of that country was present in the stands. With their insane eligibility laws, the ICC has created a mockery of international cricket.

UAE is not even have a test status like Afghanistan or Ireland still they manage to have a series against mighty NZ. Its true that teams like Oman and UAE who are quite up in ranking among associate nations don't have any single native player. The team is entirely composed of players who are on work visa to UAE. ICC don't have any objections on such series as long as they are getting money.

Who is getting money in this case? Since the series was held in the United Arab Emirates, so the beneficiary in this case is UAE ? However i don't think that the UAE needs money, they are a very rich nation.

ICC would better get more money in NZ plays with Australia or India in the UAE, rather than the UAE playing themselves when they even do not have enough native players with them.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on August 21, 2023, 10:18:10 AM

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2nd T20 match UAE wins against New Zealand I think this news has been broadcast multiple times by every news channel in UAE. New Zealand is one of the strongest teams in cricket and there could not be happier news for the United Arab Emirates right now than the fact that they have been beaten by the United Arab Emirates in T20Is. The United Arab Emirates looked much more buoyant after winning the second T20I against New Zealand and looked more confident heading into the third match. In the third match, they entered the field against New Zealand with maximum confidence, but in the end they were not able to win the third match. Despite losing the third match, the United Arab Emirates players were seen leaving the field with smiles on their faces. Their smiles show that they are happy enough to lose the series as they have won a match.

What is the purpose of this series? New Zealand never tours any of the associate nations. This time they agreed to tour the United Arab Emirates, only because they have been offered a lot of money. And the UAE team didn't had a single national playing for them. Fans attended the match only to watch New Zealand stars playing. Hardly anyone was cheering for the UAE team and not a single citizen of that country was present in the stands. With their insane eligibility laws, the ICC has created a mockery of international cricket.

First of all, let’s talk about the match. New Zealand did perform well in this match. But I definitely have to say that Hameed had to score more runs. This is the T-20 match, not a test. His strike rate was 85 after playing 28 balls. If he could score more, I think the result of this match might have been different. I still don’t think New Zealand was actually going to lose. But the difference might’ve been less.

If we talk about the stupid things that are going on right now, in associate cricket, I think if ICC does not make a change in the room, it is never going to be actually good and helpful for cricket. Cricket will die very soon. If this is how the smaller countries keep playing cricket.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on August 21, 2023, 10:18:10 AM

What is the purpose of this series? New Zealand never tours any of the associate nations. This time they agreed to tour the United Arab Emirates, only because they have been offered a lot of money. And the UAE team didn't had a single national playing for them. Fans attended the match only to watch New Zealand stars playing. Hardly anyone was cheering for the UAE team and not a single citizen of that country was present in the stands. With their insane eligibility laws, the ICC has created a mockery of international cricket.

UAE is not even have a test status like Afghanistan or Ireland still they manage to have a series against mighty NZ. Its true that teams like Oman and UAE who are quite up in ranking among associate nations don't have any single native player. The team is entirely composed of players who are on work visa to UAE. ICC don't have any objections on such series as long as they are getting money.

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