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India Are CHAMPIONS! - T20 World Cup Final

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In this episode of The Cricket Podcast, we break down India’s historic victory as they are crowned ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 champions! Relive the magic from the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, where the Men in Blue secured a dominant 96-run win over New Zealand to become the first team ever to defend the T20 title on home soil. We dive deep into the India vs New Zealand final scorecard, analyzing Sanju Samson’s masterclass innings that earned him Player of the Tournament and Jasprit Bumrah’s lethal opening spell. Is this the greatest Indian white-ball era? With three consecutive ICC trophies now in the cabinet—including the 2024 T20 World Cup and 2025 Champions Trophy—we discuss India’s undisputed dominance in world cricket. Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6313687373840384 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Head to mybookie.ag. Use code NBASZN and get your first bet covered up to 500 bucks. If it misses, just activate your bet-back bonus token and run it back. March only comes once. But it's smart, bet it big. Only at my bookie. You're listening to the cricket podcast. Hello, everyone. Where we are here. Where we are here. Where we are. The cricket podcast. And we are here. To congratulate India for a stunning victory in the 2026 T20 World Cup. They are champions again, world deserved. And we'll be getting into all of that. Are they the greatest T20 team ever? I said, yes, before the tournament. And now, Max, you'll have to come up with some more reasons for why that might not be the case. You are here. I'm Jack Ho. Max is here. How you doing, Max? Hello. Good, thank you.

Yeah. I look forward to getting into it. Obviously we weren't here. Yesterday after it happens to cover it because we were all having a nice afternoon for Jack's birthday. Yeah. Happy birthday. Thank you. Yeah, 34 years old. It was good to actually work. We went for a curry and watched the cricket while we ate the curry. So it was. Yeah. Yeah. It was a nice afternoon. Before we get going, just a reminder to people to click like and subscribe to the cricket podcast. Wherever you are listening or watching will breeze through that part. To get immediately to the action. Max, what happened in the T20 World Cup Final? Well, Jack. It was one way traffic in this World Cup Final. New Zealand. One the toss. They chose a field. They may have regretted that decision within about 20 minutes. It didn't start too badly. The first two overs went for 12 runs. Matt Hemry. It started well. Ben Phillips. Considered just five or six with extras from his first over.

And India 12 for none off two. You're thinking, okay, nice to date start. Four overs later. India in 92 for none. And the game is over. Yeah. Because Abhishek Sharma went mental and scored a 19 ball 50. Sandu Samson also went mental. He powered his way to 89 or 46. There was a brief bit of respite in the middle when Jimmy Neesham took three wickets for one run and a single over, including a golden duck for Captain Sky. And he thought, maybe. Maybe New Zealand could keep him down to like two 20 and maybe something could happen. But no, they then went on to consider another bunch of runs from the last few overs. Even Dubé hit 26 off eight balls to finish things off. And India put up 255 for five. New Zealand in reply did not get anywhere near it. Tim Seifert gave it a good go. He scored a good 50. No one else could really keep with him. The spinners did the damage early on. And then Burma wrapped it up to get some nice good looking figures of four for 15 and collect himself a player of the match award.

But it was it was long gone by the time he got involved. And yeah, better play. And yeah, that was one hell of a beating. Yeah. It was actually one of those games, apart from sort of saying, India were pretty good at everything they did. There's not like that much to say. I'm sure we'll find some stuff to say. But like sometimes you get these games and there are loads of these talking points. Lots of drama. Things from the balance, etc, etc, etc. This is pretty, pretty close to how you thought it might have gone. And I think how we thought it might have gone in the build up. And maybe I didn't have India down as getting 250 again. And what a competition that is, by the way, back to back 250's in knockout games. That is. Yeah, in theory, it's your hardest games of the tournament. Yeah, that's absolutely. That's absolutely emphatic from the back side on this occasion.

They were then able to put the exclamation mark on things against England. England were able to score runs and put up a decent fight. Not the case here. The Indian bowling really came to the party. Too good. Really. And yeah, like after what two or three overs, probably of the match. Maybe four overs. So in the first innings, India are 27 for none after three. You're thinking that's not looking great. And then they are 51 for none after four. And at that point. Yeah, it's not game over, but India basically asserted their dominance, didn't they? I'm struggling to think really of. A more complete performance in a final by a team. We knew they were good. What a way to win it, I guess, Max. Yeah, they certainly put, put any who do you used to bet about, I'm at about finals, didn't they?

Yeah, with some, some strength. Yeah, like you say, it's difficult, isn't it, to really pick too much too many bones out of it because it was just so one sided. But yeah, comprehensive. They were, they were excellent. Everything they did, they kept. They just kept New Zealand under the pump the entire time. It was a bit, it was a little bit of men against boys, which is kind of sad to say. Yeah. It would be not, I mean, like, yeah, I hear what you're saying. It would be good, I think, if at this point we were saying, oh, well done to a few of the Kiwis. I mean, Tim Seifer does pretty well. In the circumstances, Mitch Santners, four overs to 33, three no wickets. Also not bad. Otherwise, otherwise, it is just a succession of, you know, great things to say about India.

I thought perhaps on the, on the matter of the match, I will do India's batting. I mean, like Abhishek Sharma, he finally turns up at the party when it, when it counts. But, um, Santjesamson probably again, the, the, the, not I don't know about hero, um, maybe too strong a word, but the, the main performer, another 80 plus score for him, 89 or 46. The shame, I actually ashamed, I think for, for Santjesamson who has had a great tournament after he came into the Indian side. It's a shame, actually, probably for him not to get the 100. And maybe, he's a little unlucky not to win player at the match. I know, I think, I remember taking a fourth or his, is good, but he does pick up. I, he does pick up wickets after the point at which the game was a contest. Santjesamson effectively ends the game as a contest. Yes. Um, almost by the end of the power play with, with Abhishek Sharma, so I kick. So, like, yeah, I mean, India's batting. What do you say about it, Max? Put some superlatives on it.

Give them some sauce. Uh, yeah, dominant. Um, relentless, two, two words, spring to mind. Some people might say, Jack, very controversially, perhaps a little fortunate at times. But that is how T20 goes, right? I mean, there were quite a few slashes that go through gaps in the field and, you know, land between fields and that kind of thing. And, I mean, you're talking about it in there, some of the previous innings where, like, you know, sometimes you just hit the ball straighter, a fielder, and if you don't hit the ball straighter, it, it all turns out okay. And it was, there was streaky at times to start with, but that's, that is why they're so good and how, why they're so much fun and why they put up scores of 250. You can't, like, say, we always, we're always saying, like, you can't have it both ways, right? You can't, you can't say, you need to be aggressive, but you have to, not be that aggressive. Just, you know, just the right amount of aggression that involves you hitting six is all the time, but not getting out. You know, that, that's it. Imagine reading, it's not real. They, the way India go about batting

and the way they try and, just, well, I mean, end the game in the first six overs, arguably, he's impressive. And they are, I don't think anyone, you know, has the ability to, to live with them in, in that kind of form. And you just have to give me, yeah, huge amount of credit for the way they go about playing the game. It is, it's a bit, I don't know, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I like sitting there watching teams pile up 250. It's a bit, like, it's a little bit cricketing view and, um, just get the bowling machine out, because while they're having bowlers in this scenario, but, you know, if you're given those conditions, um, make the most of it, boy do they. Uh, yeah, there's, they're, they don't, they don't have, they are peerless, I think, in this, in this kind of, cricket, at the moment. I, I hundred percent, um, like, I, I said, and I have maintained through this, this, this, it's probably the best T20 team we've ever,

ever seen in the history of that format. Um, for, for my own personal ego, I'm glad that they were able to, to, to be so, preposterously good in the final, um, to vindicate me. And I like thinking away, that that was probably on the mind of St Andrew Samson, when, when he was out there, yesterday smashing sixes. Um, do you have the things? Yeah, doing it for Jack on his birthday, yeah, exactly. Uh, a few of the other things came up. Uh, I think it's the first time, uh, the top three in a T20 World Cup knockout match, a 50 in, in one innings, which is pretty decent. Uh, Abhishek Sharma's 18 ball 50s, the fastest in the knockout, uh, T20 World Cup matches, uh, 37 boundaries. I think he's second or third place. Uh, I did have this list up earlier, but I've obviously closed that and forgot it. Um, 30s and boundaries second or third on, on in terms of most boundaries, hitting and innings. I mean, what's that 40 boundaries? That's nearly a 33% boundary percentage.

Uh, if you're above 20%, you didn't pretty well. Like, it's, it's, it's absolutely, absolutely bonkers. Um, and, uh, a minute ago, doing it back to back as well, uh, B England and New Zealand. Um, yeah, you know, you might argue that, they don't have the bowling fire power of South Africa, but they've been decent in this tournament, both of those teams. Um, and India have just, you know, blow them away and, and you can't, you can't say fair on that. It's a proper 10 out of 10 performance. Um, Max, there is, there is a question, and we'll probably get into this now. Um, if, if we're playing back, like, where things went wrong, um, Mitchell Santner, bowling first, um, after India demolished England and knowing how good India are about batting, what do you think was going through his head when he decided to do that? And, um, like, would it have made any difference whatsoever?

Um, is New Zealand about it first? I suppose. I suppose we can go ahead. The second question first, I think probably know. Um, but I mean, I mean, I can only think like it's, you're thinking, you're thinking due factor and, and the chasing thing, if you remember, obviously a different format, but you go back to the, the final against us, Australia in the, the one day World Cup, when it was a bit tricky, and batting first and, you know, Travis had just made a mockery of the whole thing. You know, you wonder whether that was, um, the logic behind it. But when it comes to knockout games, the, the scoreboard pressure is a, is a thing. And quite often runs on the board, is the way to go. And also you think about the way New Zealand, go about their cricket, and the players, and the tools that they have. I feel like a better opportunity for them is, you know, putting up, I cannot a bad score, 190, 200, and then, trying to restrict, because I don't, I don't think, apart from, you know, we'd spoke about Matt Hammary

and the power playing, didn't really go well for him, but he's a big, you know, a big wicket takeer and a big, um, a big weapon for them with the ball. I think outside of that, it's much more about control. And making it very difficult. Mitchell Sanders, a very county operator and, you know, makes his up his pace well, makes it very difficult to score. Actually, Mravindra has been making it very difficult to score off in this tournament, as well, with like his slow, floaty off spinners out wide with the, you know, the, the offside field packed. And, you know, Jimmy Neesham is, he's, he gets four overs in this game, you know, he's not a guy, despite the fact that he took three wickets and over. Um, you know, those wickets come from, you know, you know, you want to put pressure on the position and, and trying to get them to hit off-pace bowling and take wickets in the, out in the boundary that way. And you think, if that's the way you operate as a bowling unit, it will probably better off trying to put up, you know, a decent score and then, use the scoreboard pressure and the situations

to try and make that a bit more imposing, than, it might always be. And I think, uh, you always, you're always risking when you're going up against India, then batting you out the game. Um, you know, you could put up to 20 and think about you got the game and chase it down with, you know, seven wickets to spare, right? They're just that good. So, don't think it makes a huge amount of difference. But I would, yeah, I would, I would question whether chasing against a side like India is the best way if it is going to go about winning. But it's very easy to say that with hindsight, them having just lost by night-yield runs. But yeah, that's my, that's my take. Yeah, that's my take. That's my take. Yeah, that's my take. That's my take. My take. I'm going to say, I wish I had back first. He didn't know what was about to happen at the time. And I think, um, but I think as the underdog, I think, as an underdog, you're often better off chasing. Um,

because, because the other team can back themselves into a stupid situation. Yeah, not knowing the quality of the pitch. good wickets, I made a bad in the IPL and in this tournament itself, like it's not always like this. When you see the game that we saw yesterday, I saw loads of people Twitter being like, why have they built 100,000 seat stadium and left 60 meter boundaries? This is ridiculous. Actually, it's not always like this. I made a bad. Sometimes it can be, and it was yesterday, but Michelangelo wouldn't have known for sure how this pitch was going to behave. He had to make a judgement call there. Probably was hoping, to be honest, that the pitch would be at least have something in it for bowlers. It basically didn't. Once it turns out, it's really flat. And Montapachec doesn't throw his wicket away. You're going to be in real trouble if you're in New

Zealand. There's just a difference in the amount of firepower that New Zealand have versus India. Like the Sanju Samson, multiple times this tournament has scored 70 plus off about, that strike rate of 200. Abhishek Sharma, we can score 130 balls. That guy's a freak. Ishan Kishan, multiple times this tournament has scored 50. He's been 200. Hardic Pangea completes it. Surya Kumar Yada has come off completely in this tournament, not really once against the USA, but we know for sure he can get 50 of 20 balls if he needs to. Till at Varma, Shivam Dubai, same, same. Even Akshapa Tell, I mean, like it's ridiculous. Like it's an absolutely ridiculous batting line up. It went particularly badly for New Zealand, yesterday, but on that pitch, surely at some point someone's going to go off and that puts you in real difficulty if you're in New Zealand. And then he flip it over if you're looking at New Zealand. We know Finn Allen. And so if it's been actually really good in this tournament as well, can go bananas. And then I'm looking at the rest of that batting line up. And I'm like,

I don't really have confidence that any of them will regularly get 50 of 25 balls. I know that they can in theory. We'd like Glenford, it's can do some good stuff. We're of India. I've seen him do some good stuff, which Sandler got a little bit of pop. But it's like a different amount of pop. It's like, yeah, it doesn't compare. Yeah, it's like regular people power. And India, I've got a little sort of freak power at the moment. So fair play, India. Absolutely best at this format. Max is a big question. And then we've got a few questions of the chat. We'll get to them as well. But to end part one, Max, are India the best T20 team ever now that you've seen this tournament and how they performed? Well, I said before the tournament that they could be, but they probably aren't, because they make stupid decisions. Things like Picking Washington, Sundar, and random games, and they're losing. But they managed to get their best team out. And hey, guess what? They got their best team out and they might be the best. But yeah, I can't think of anyone. I can't think of anyone who

at their peak could cope with this lot. Especially when you think about T20, it's still a fairly new sport, right? Like what, 20, 20 years oldish. Maybe if we were 20 years into the world of T20, and you had like that Australia side with Gilchrist and whatever, in the late 90s, early in the oldies, and just all conquering. And they were playing the kind of cricket that people do now. Maybe in that scenario, they might have got to a situation where they could hold a candle to this India side. But we didn't have that. So at the moment, yeah, I think they're out there. After this World Cup, I said before the World Cup I thought they were the best. After this World Cup, I don't think anyone is close. Like it's an absolute golf between this team and the next best team that I've seen. Probably the next best team I've seen is Mumbai Indians circa 2019. Like that's that and they were a good team. They were really some of the same players. They were they were a good team. I can't think of anyone else to be honest.

I like how in your arts or back as well. So to come up with a potential second place, you invented a team that had been the only team that could even come second as a team. In an alternative universe. So yeah, that's a pretty clear word. Max, we'll take a break. Then we'll come back, pick up a couple of questions and I guess give our final thoughts on the final. Feel the rush. Live thoroughbred racing is happening now at Laurel Park, the players track. Every Friday through Sunday, the gates open at 11 a.m. and the action starts at noon. Free admission, fast-paced racing and real wagering excitement from start to finish. Pick your horses, place your bets, chase the win. From live racing and simulcast action to great food, special events and non-stop sports viewing, Laurel Park is where the action lives. Come, win, play. Visit Laurelpark.com. If you're betting March Madness, you should be doing it at my bookie.

This is the best betting stretch of the year. Upsets, buzzer beaters, and if you're going to take your shot, you might as well take it where the payouts hit harder. Only at my bookie, you've got the money bag. Money bag gives you boost at odds and juiced payouts on select games. Same picks, bigger potential returns. When you're staring at that sweet 16 matchup or loading up a final four play, my bookie can turn a good hit into a great one. This isn't the week to sit back and wait. Lines are moving, futures are tightening. The edge is right now. Head to mybookie.ag, use code NBASZN and get your first bet covered of the 500 bucks. If it misses, just activate your bet-back bonus token and run it back. March only comes once, but it's smart, bet it big, only at my bookie. If you're betting March Madness, you should be doing it at my bookie. This is the best betting stretch of the year. Upsets, buzzer beaters, and if you're going to take your shot, you might as well take it where the payouts hit harder.

Only at my bookie, you've got the money bag. Money bag gives you boost at odds and juiced payouts on select games. Same picks, bigger potential returns. When you're staring at that sweet 16 matchup or loading up a final four play, my bookie can turn a good hit into a great one. This isn't the week to sit back and wait. Lines are moving, futures are tightening. The edge is right now. Head to mybookie.ag, use code NBASZN and get your first bet covered of the 500 bucks. If it misses, just activate your bet-back bonus token and run it back. March only comes once, but it's smart, bet it big, only at my bookie. Welcome back everyone to the cricket podcast. We are talking about the fine love for 2020, 2016. World Cup, India powering to victory in that one. Max, a couple of things you probably should mention are the Indian bowlers. They were quite good. And then maybe before that, the time when Mitchell Sandler dropped the ball and then headbutted it for six or four, like for a

boundary. Which one of them do you think was best? India is bowling on Mitchell Sandler heading the ball for four. Yeah, definitely Mitchell Sandler heading the ball. We like comedy. Comedy is always good. Do they hitting 24 more runs in that Overs? No, I think my highlight was Jimmy Nations over three wickets for one run. It was another shocking over with great outcomes. Did you have any feeling at that point in time as you were tacking into your chicken karate? Did you have any sensation that maybe New Zealand could get back in the game or were you just like this? It was done from like done from 92 for none. It was pretty done from 51 for none. But yeah, 92 off the power plates. They could have gone out of run above the rest of the game and still won it later. Yeah, literally, literally could have done that. Yeah. Mad. India's bowlers were good as well, though, weren't they?

Do we give them some credit before we? Yeah. One of the questions. I mean, we were saying before 250 is a hard enough chase and then you take four Overs of Jasper at Bummer into the equation. Suddenly, it's more like a chase of 290. He was obviously excellent. But, you know, the first over of the New Zealand innings, Archdeep was excellent, right? He barely went for anything. Made it really tricky and it just put into perspective the size of the task ahead of New Zealand. Yeah, they didn't look back from there, really. They got the big wickets as they needed to. From there, it's just a case of don't miss your lines too much. It'll fall into place. I'd say there's plenty of credit you can give the Indian bowlers, but limited in comparison, given the scenario, right? They've got an extra shot at wickets every time because New Zealand have to go out and play so ridiculously. Yeah. Yeah, the India ball,

well, they balled more like I thought their ability was than the England game where chap body is not stuff like that. So, yeah, good, good all round India. Well done, well done, India. Abhishek Sharma has sent us a super chat. I assume it's the real one, because who else would call themselves Abhishek Sharma? Let's kick off the questions. Do you think he looks like Patrick Bateman's a Christian Bail? Or, I guess, your book interpretation, if you've read the Bretton East and Ellis novel, like when you were reading that, did you think, oh, yeah, my head, this guy's a spitting image of Abhishek Sharma. Now, I'm going to say no to both of those, but I can't say severer. I've rented my mind as a comparison, no. He does bat like a psycho. There was a psycho element. Also, when I first read it, I thought he was talking about Jason Bateman, and he does not let him either. All right, the comedian Jason Bateman, you know, the comic actor, the comedian, you know, comic actor, comic actor. I was watching

actually arrest the development the other day. Yeah, you could show. It's DC's funny. Yeah, yeah. Other question we had in, for Batball Balance, should T20, T20s have standard boundary sizes, 85 meters. That's right. I'm not sure anywhere in the world has got 85 meter boundaries. Also some sort of freak ground in Australia, but if you put the pit all the way over to one side of the square or something, there is a question about Batball Balance. I think you are on to their descent. Cricket has to make a decision. A people who run cricket have to make a decision about whether they want 250 side games or teams getting 250 as a matter of course. It seems like we're heading in that direction. But there is a real criticism that if you diminish the value

of a boundary so much that there's like every second ball or every third ball is going before, that you kind of take away the specialness of the actually good shots that you used to go for six, right? If a six becomes worth a lot less, if you're seeing 12 or sixes or 15, sixes and innings, they aren't as good, are they? Yeah, you're like, oh, well, you've got 100 meters of sixes and you're betting at 12 runs for those. So there's definitely a question there. The other thing is from a spectator perspective, it sounds a bit ridiculous, but actually what happens when a six gets hit is usually quite boring. Guy runs in ball gets hit and that is the everything. It takes everyone else out of the game. Yeah, there's no chance of some good fielding. There's like no running between the wickets, it's just a case of like 100,000 pounds. Yeah, if that's running, it's going to be 100. So like, look, I'm generally,

when it comes to 220, in favour of higher scores, I do think that there's sort of a critical mass though. I think that scores around 200 are normally pretty fun. It gives the other team a really decent chance of a chase. It's not, it doesn't feel like a complete blowout 200. So I think that's where, yeah, if you were going to try and curate the game, you should be moving towards that kind of area. I don't know what, what would that be in boundaries per innings, like 20, maybe a bit more. 10 and over, isn't it? So you'd probably want maybe like three every two overs, four every three overs. Yeah. Yeah. So it's between 20 and 25 boundaries. I think that leads to enough room for good shots. It needs enough room for like massive accelerations, which are fun. Like it is good when an over goes to 20. It flips the game stuff like that. Problem is if five overs and innings go over 20, that sense of momentum and score running up,

it doesn't, it is diminished. So that's what I would aim for. I don't, I don't, I'd like, I'd probably prefer the kind of 250 side game. I prefer the semifinal that we watched last week to like 130. And then the other team grinds it out. And it's, they're all 130. The other team need to run a ball of 12, but they can't hit the ball off the square because the pitch is too bad. And we got that a little bit in the previous World Cup. So I think if you're going to get it wrong, get it wrong the way that where, you know, get it wrong so that a team can get 250, not 110. You know, you got anything to add to that? I'd agree with basically all of that. I suppose the question is the mechanism by which you do that. So obviously the suggestion is boundary sizes and standard boundary sizes. I, I quite like the, the add, there's not like an added tactical element when you've got differing boundary sizes

and like a longer boundary or a short boundary, you know, how you use your resources, what kind of bowling you use matchups and things like that. I think if you try and standardize everything you do lose some of that. So I don't know if necessarily like standard boundary sizes is the way to go about it. I think just don't, don't make them play on a better concrete. It would be, would be the main way or, yeah, I don't know, try and, try and, try and, let them rough up the ball as much as they like so we can have a reversal income into play or something. But yeah, maybe like a reverse bowling power play. So for like two overs, you get 20 fielders. Yeah, you know, like, yeah, when you're playing cricket at a school or there's war in the garden, you know, if you hit it in the air to the wall, you're out. All like a big fence comes into play. Yeah, there's lots of things you could do. Some of these ideas better than others is what I'd say. Probably, I think there's an argument, there's an argument that some bowlers should be allowed

to ball more than four overs. That would probably balance things out a little bit. You have a couple of, couple of bowlers, you can ball five. Yeah, I'd say we probably need to see how things develop a little bit as well. Obviously, IPL is sort of plowing off into the distance when it comes to like high-run environments. Yeah, impact stuff, obviously, not helping there. And this tournament had certain venues, which were like preposterous for the scoring runs. But it's not always like that. There were a lot of other games. We watched all the games in Sri Lanka were quite difficult to score venues. There was a lot of challenging batting there. So yeah, I don't know. Max is quite a lot of stuff. We've covered there. Is there anything else from the final that we should get to? I can't see any other questions. Lots of comments. Thanks for thanks for getting in touch. Seen uploader, midlife, Mazda. Couple of shout outs. Anything else, Max,

before we wrap up? No, no, I've got nothing, Jack. Just another congratulations to India and their dominance. Well done, which we deserved. Oh, that was the one thing. Yeah, the one thing I said to you yesterday, wasn't it? Can you believe that not that long ago, Sandu Samson, nowhere near the India side, not good enough, and then three effective knock-up matches in a row with scores of pretty close to 100 to romp India home. So it's a far cry from those sad old days, isn't it? Oh, it's a great tournament. He's had a great tournament. There's no question about this. Probably in the team of the tournament, just for those three matches. Yeah, and Gaton Gambier, unfortunately, we will keep his job as well, which I suppose is the other knock-on effect. It's that. It's good to have a villain. That's what he is. All right. Thanks very much for listening and watching everyone. We'll be back at some point,

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