David Gower
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It feels very strange knowing that the Sky days are done but a huge thank you to all those with whom I have worked over those 20 years. It was a great team to be part of. Thank you too to all of you out there for so many kind messages.
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Many thanks to all who have spotted and welcomed my return to a commentary box for
@thePSLt20
I was in Pakistan 12 months ago and being asked if I would do this if offered so now it’s going to happen I’m hugely looking forward to it all.
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In the words of the late, great Douglas Adams, “So long and thanks for all the fish”
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Truly sad to be leaving Pakistan after such a warm welcome and having so enjoyed the craic of being back in a commentary box. Hope to come back as and when PSL resumes. A big thank you to everyone who has made this a great trip.
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@iramizraja
The problem is that “security issues” are so hard to define. I’m sorry that ECB has felt obliged to pull out but I’m happy to come back for PSL next year if required and support
@TheRealPCB
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It’s never good to lose a friend but always good to remember why they were special. Big Bob had so many “moving parts” - not just in his bowling action - that he was a fascinating man to know. He leaves a long, tall gap. RIP
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If Rehan is making a debut as the youngest ever England player, can I say I’m ready to make a comeback as the oldest?Been netting at
@TheRealPCB
in Lahore.
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Love a happy ending.
@StuartBroad8
you are a great man! Thoroughly deserved, perfectly scripted finish to a wonderful career. 🥂🍾
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Well that was really enjoyable. A month in Abu Dhabi to finish the
@TheHBLPSL
and congrats
@MultanSultans
. Thanks to all who worked hard to make it work. Hope to see you all again. In the meantime once again available for hire!!
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It’s been great co-hosting Game On Hai. Made all very easy by a great team!
@ivivianrichards
@mir_sana05
@AJavedOfficial
@iRashidLatif68
@AzharMahmood11
@mdk_gul
Thanks for all your help and thanks Pakistan for the hospitality.
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Sorry to be missing
#HBLPSL8
Wishing everyone involved well for a great tournament. Lessons I’ve learned from the last PSL? Easy. Life’s too short…..
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It appears one has to explain things to the hard of hearing - I’m not against the IPL - it is a phenomenon - but I am against England contracted players being unavailable to play for England because of it.
"Joe Root finds himself with people unavailable, because where are they? The IPL. What good is that for English Test cricket?!
This is the oldest, more important form of the game, we need to defend it."
Four minutes of David Gower in full flow. Well said, Sir 👏
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What a lovely farewell tribute from BBC to the outstanding Sue Barker. Tears and 🥂 all round. She has been and is brilliant. We will all miss her. Were I there I’d curtsy! 👏👏
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I must pay tribute to my now late captain. Ray Illingworth was one of the great captains. His job was to “turn me from a gifted amateur into a gifted pro”. Jury still out on that but I will be eternally grateful for his support in my formative days.
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Hope you don’t mind me retweeting. It’s one of my favourite memories!
LEFT HANDERS UNITE! Here’s some top shelf majestic batting from lord DAVID GOWER, smashing the NZ attack in 1982/83 for one of the best tons in the 80’s, 158 glorious Gabba runs, absolute left hand porn galore. What a player.
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Brilliant start to a historic tour. Brilliant from Stokes and his merry, persistent men. That moment….
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In my position as man on sofa watching England, not for the first time I’m thinking that a player of Jason Roy’s prodigious talent must be able to transfer those skills to test cricket. If Warner can, Roy should.
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A case well made. The failure of the quid pro quo of
@TheRealPCB
sending their team to England will cost them more than just the “quid” and
@ECB_cricket
have not been “pro” in any sense.
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Day 5 Quarantine in Abu Dhabi. Have read 46 pages of PSL Covid Protocol. Waiting for next Covid test before resuming wandering round the suite and watching European crime dramas. Currently into series 2 of Spiral.
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Forget all this frippery about honours. So sad to hear of the passing of Ruth Strauss. All sympathies to Andrew, an honourable man, and the family.
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Delighted to be in Pakistan and enjoying the chats with the good doctor and the panel in the PTV studio.
With
@David215Gower
at the PTV Sports studios. My hero while I was growing up. A deft left handed batsman, one of the finest of all generations
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Have made it to Cape Town to be warmly greeted by the man at Immigration control. A very good start followed by “Are you working?” I could only say “Sadly not”. However it is great to be here and I look forward to seeing what happens in the next few days.
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All I can say is wow! I didn’t expect to be with SRK tonight and shaking his hand at the moment of KKR’s victory but what a supreme pleasure.
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@StuartBroad8
When a bowler is that far into the action I think it’s entirely reasonable for the batter to assume the delivery will be completed. A less than honourable way to finish what had been an excellent series for India.
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Congratulations to Eoin Morgan and his World Cup winning team. They were outstanding and he is one very impressive captain.
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Great stuff
@root66
!! Leading from the front with huge style and immense skill. I humbly doff my white floppy hat!
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@shoaib100mph
A happy chance encounter. Very good to see
@shoaib100mph
If I’d known I’d have dressed smarter!!
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Let's keep it simple. Alistair Cook has been an outstanding performer and is a thoroughly good man. I for one hope it is a fitting finale for him at the Oval.
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@DrNaumanNiaz
Thank you and especially thanks to the team that rallied round to make it all work.
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Over 2 months ago now I contributed to a podcast for
@FOXSportsAUS
for an agreed fee and sent them an invoice on the same day. They still haven’t paid. WTF is it with the accounts depts of such major companies that they treat contributors with such disdain?
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A merry Covid free Xmas to all. A month ago I had no idea I’d be here in Melbourne but it’s great to be back on familiar turf. Who knows what Santa has brought us all in this little stocking? A test win? 🤔
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What a great lady. What a great reign. May Elizabeth II rest in peace after a lifetime of wholly admirable service. As one of many to have met her even briefly the memory remains both fresh and special.
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If you’ve no £&@?ing idea what I mean, you need to read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and know only 1 thing. The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.
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With all the bad news circulating how nice it is to have a little something to celebrate. So, happy birthday to
@ivivianrichards
Vivi, many happy returns. You’re still looking awesome!
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Thanks to everyone today for all the birthday messages. Today I am apparently a year older. The good news is that tomorrow I’ll only be another day older.
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#EmmaRaducanu
the perfect antidote and pick me up after the horrible low of Old Trafford. Wow!!!!!
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Thank you, thank you to all who have sent birthday greetings. Very nice to be remembered and I will be celebrating unusually, though it is now the norm in lockdown, by shovelling compost. 🥂🥂later!
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With a delayed start at Kensington we’ve taken the plunge and broken into Michelle and Michael’s Xmas cake. Delicious!!
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Very sorry to hear of the passing of Dean Jones. Very talented and very brave as a batsman. Hugely enthusiastic as a broadcaster. A real cricket lover.
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@BumbleCricket
In the words of the great Benaud “a marvellous innings that”. You will be missed but remembered!! Enjoy walking the dog!
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@TheBarmyArmy
Fear not, Mr Tapal is a good friend! Sadly the washing machine is a little oversized for my utility room and as for toothpaste - well - life’s too short!
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Great to hear Henry and to remember how principled and brave he was about the state of his native country.
Remember Zimbabwean cricketer Henry Olonga? This is him now.
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Fish and tartare never on menu. Had to go for terracotta and fig.
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@robelinda2
Well, I can hardly press “like” but I can give credit where it’s due. Well bowled, Tex!
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Rest of the World team 1970. B Richards, Barlow, Kanhai, G Pollock, C Lloyd, Sobers, Engineer, Initkhab, Procter, McKenzie, Gibbs. Not worth test status? Give me f@&£&£9 strength!!!
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Good luck to all those demonstrating v the Govt & HMRC’s retrospective taxation outside Parliament on the 4th Sept at 10.30am ref:
#LoanChargeScandal
#RuleOfLaw
Sorry I can’t join in. Otherwise engaged on the little matter of the 4th Ashes Test
#Retrotax
is just not 🏏
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Things to look forward to. New show on the road very soon and hopefully coming to a theatre near you soon!
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Just seen the
@timesdiary
piece about the horticulturalist, David Hedges-Gower, who added the “Hedges” because his wife didn’t wish to be married to David Gower. Please send him my commiserations.
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I’ve just spotted that it’s International Snow Leopard day. They are in my top 5 and 1 day I will head to the top of a mountain to tick off seeing them in the wild. I know, patience and luck and a good guide all needed!!
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@icelandcricket
You’re welcome! In return maybe you can let us have some of your geothermal energy to sort out the heating bills here!!
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Great news. Those nice people at Chapel Down are adding the sparkle into English cricket this summer. I’ve not opened this one yet. It will be even better to celebrate the first England win. And it’s the only one I’ve got!!
#SparklingCricket
@ChapelDownWines
@EnglandCricket
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Sept: presented Sainsbury’s with an invoice for £200 damage to my car in their car wash with verbal assurances of compensation. Today the Executive Office rings to claim they are not liable. Waitrose it is then and hand car wash from now on!!
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@iramizraja
What’s keeping you? Some of us are already pacing our rooms in Abu Dhabi like caged tigers. Well, maybe more like confined tabby cats but you get my meaning! See you in a week after quarantine!!
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@thecricketmen
VERY happy to be back behind a mic and it is already wonderful how warm the welcome has been in Pakistan.
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Asking Australia to bat first at Headingley ‘89, declaring at Lord’s ‘84 and drinking with
@BeefyBotham
for the last 40 years. Many other offences to be taken into consideration.
This is the obscure, tongue-tricky discovery of my day, noted because it really fills a gap:
'cacoethes' [kak-o-ee-thees] is the desperate urge to do something very inadvisable.
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A very solid man on and off the field. One of the very best!
RIP Great Aussie cricketer & bloke Rod Marsh. Did much for England cricket too. Frank and fearless, top company.
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@thistlemistfarm
@BumbleCricket
Bumble could and should still be on the airwaves. He was badly betrayed. You know who you are……
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So sad to lose Lord Ted. He was a truly great player and such an imaginative thinker about all sport, not just cricket, and made the most of a fascinating and full life. Much more deserving of the soubriquet “Lord” than I!
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@AatifNawaz
Very happy to be of minor amusement! Nothing else to play with at the moment so words it is!!
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Just finished The Librarian of Auschwitz. Not exactly a cheery read but incredibly moving and ultimately uplifting when you understand Dita’s life story. And if anyone is feeling hard done by at the moment it’s one more reminder of the worst that can happen.
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@piersmorgan
@GeoffreyBoycott
Damn! I'm 4000 odd runs behind Alastair and have a lower average. Should have tried harder!! Time for a comeback now I know where I went wrong?!!
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@VictoriaCoren
King Charles III has begun his reign with great sensitivity and awesome dignity.
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@TheCricketPod
Speaking in an understandably limited way, I’m here firstly because I’m working and secondly because I like it here. It’s a fascinating part of the world, very welcoming and as you can see full of surprises! Never a dull moment!
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Had a word with the decoraters but they appear to have misunderstood. They’ve missed the brewery and painted out the top of the mountain by mistake.
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@the_topspin
Drat! More Tippex! But in all seriousness HB has been outstandingly brilliant on this tour so whole hearted congratulations. It is very unlikely to be the last record he breaks!
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Yep! Back in business with the old quill. As ever looking forward to finding the right (write?!) words and enough of them!
David Gower writes for The Cricketer every month. The first in his new 'lunch with...' series features his old England team-mate and fellow batting great Graham Gooch, in the June issue. It's a top read. Please subscribe:
@David215Gower
@TheCricketerMag
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@paulfrombucks
It is a campaign to reverse a retrospective tax grab by HMRC referred to as the loan charge legislation. Demands go back as far as 20 years and have affected hundreds of thousands. There is a lot of info out there on Twitter.
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Does anyone out there have a contact for Chris Old? I’m helping to get together the players involved in the ‘81 Ashes for some celebratory dinners next year, 40 years on. I’ve found everyone else but Chilly is proving elusive!!
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Good to see support in Parliament is growing but still no reaction!!
BREAKING: The 210th & 80th
@Conservatives
Parliamentarian to sign the open letter to
@Jesse_Norman
calling for a suspension & independent review of the
#LoanCharge
is
@AndrewBowieMP
who was
@theresa_may
’s PPS!
@BorisJohnson
@sajidjavid
lives are at risk
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@CliveTyldesley
Very well and tactfully yet passionately put. I empathise and sympathise entirely and wish you well.
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Much looking forward to it all and wondering where it will take us all!!
We are so pleased to announce that Cricket Legend
@David215Gower
will be joining the Black Opal team as ambassador and Cricket Tour Host. We look forward to working together and announcing David's first event soon. Welcome to the team!!
Find out more here:
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@Zohaib1981
@waqyounis99
@ECB_cricket
I have to admit being bamboozled by Waqar that day. I think I played and missed at the five before in that over and had decided a little too early to leave the final one alone. Well bowled, I’d say!!
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As President of White Hunters CC, a motley but lovable crew of itinerant cricketers, may I share the attached blog from 1 of the founder members on the topic of the persistent ban on recreational cricket.
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Just watched Guy Martin parachute into Normandy. Take my hat (beret?) off to him but even more massively to all those who did it for real 75 years ago. Huge respect. Huge gratitude.
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@ShoaibScoreLine
@PTVSp0rts
@DrNaumanNiaz
@fawadchaudhry
Certainly. I had reached a point where I needed a break. I asked for some time off that winter and Peter May made it clear I could not pick and choose so I had to forgo the entire winter programme, incl SCG test. Never an issue re Pakistan.
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Retrospective taxation with apparently no limits is just wrong. Simple. If govt wants to be seen to be moral this is one area that needs to be addressed.
#STOPtheloancharge
@BBCr4today
interview earlier asking
@10DowningStreet
@BorisJohnson
@sajidjavid
to take urgent action to rethink the highly unfair & harmful
#LoanCharge
@LCAG_2019
@loanchargeAPPG
affecting 50,000 people in UK & approx 140 people in
#chingford
#woodfordgreen
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@OnceAshes
Aggers, my dear friend, I’m so sorry. Of all my regrets that summer of ‘89 was/is the biggest and by the end of that dreadful series all I can say is that the word “frazzled” doesn’t cover the half of it! Loved your company in Pakistan. See you soon!
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@jenzofan
@jonquin81721408
@ent_thinking
@paulfrombucks
@Jesse_Norman
Nobody disputes HMRC’s duty to collect tax. When they it takes them so long to react to an ongoing situation, which is equivalent to tacit acceptance, and then finally decide to go back after 20 years, that is immoral and unjust.
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@utallat5
Thank you for asking. Absolutely fine but still testing positive as of this morning. Maybe another 24 hours…?
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It cannot be right for “authority” to sit on its hands for years and then just be able to turn the clock back at will to make up for its own inefficiency.
@David215Gower
Thank you David for this
@HMRCgovuk
initially tried to turn back the tax laws by TWENTY years
Now
#LoanCharge
"just" goes back to 2010 (that's TWELVE years ago!)
How can this be right especially as there are EIGHT deaths on
#HMRC
hands due to this?
@RishiSunak
ignoring MPs
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As submitted to the PCA to wish England well on Sunday. I’ll be there but sadly not working!
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First impression from the stand rather than the media centre at Newlands: it is definitively a beautiful location but if only someone could paint out the brewery. It would be possibly the world’s biggest trompe l’oeil but worth it.
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I can only heartily agree!!
Always a pleasure to hear the views of the legend
@David215Gower
on current cricket affairs.
Need to get him back on the 📺!
@TimesRadio
@PhilWilliams
🏏
#AUSvIND
#AUSvsIND
#TestCricket
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@Bibhu224
As most people have now gathered, I have never blamed IPL for England’s test woes. That Harry Brook can make headlines in PSL is great for both parties and the key fact is that it is not in conflict with any England duties. That was and is my point.
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@Zohaib1981
@waqyounis99
As I’ve said before it was a very fine piece of bowling; 4or 5 swinging away and the one you’ve so kindly shown holding its line.
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Very good of R Ashwin to give me a current topic for tonight’s Pataudi lecture. He (Ashwin!) is a very fine cricketer and one of the game’s great thinkers. When he has thought about this more I hope he will come to the conclusion that his instinct let him down.
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Excellent.
💬 "They are acting like 'everyone else that has played in the history of the game are wrong, and we are right'." 💬
@NasserCricket
not happy after watching England suffer another batting collapse on day three of the second Test against New Zealand.
#ENGvNZ
🏴🇳🇿
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@StuartBroad8
Much though I am happy to promote oral hygiene world wide, when one gets to a certain age all one needs to know is simply “Life’s too short”
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