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Rohit Sharma player profile

Languid and easy on the eye, Rohit Sharma owned all the shots in the book when he emerged from the Mumbai suburbs as heir apparent to the Indian batting greats of the 2000s. It took him time and persistence, but by the 2010s he had become a colossus in white-ball cricket, and the man in charge of perhaps the most formidable league team in the first age of T20.

That Rohit had talent was apparent to both the casual observer and to the trained eye. Fans were frustrated at the long wait for the potential to translate into runs, though selectors and captains, knowing better, kept backing him. At one point the word “talent” was Rohit’s bugbear, a pejorative nickname for him on social media. Once it all clicked, though – the move to open the batting in ODIs late in 2012 was one particular turning point – things came together spectacularly.

Rohit scored ODI double-hundreds for fun, won six IPLs in the first 15 editions of the tournament, scored five hundreds at the 2019 ODI World Cup, and when he finally got to open in Tests in 2019, three quick hundreds in his first series in the role, one of them a double.

Ironically his IPL franchise nicknamed him “Hitman” when he was anything but: more caresser, less hitter. But Rohit still became known as one of the foremost hitters of colossal sixes of his era. So spectacular and certain was his acceleration that people began anticipate a massive score every time he went past 50.

His captaincy at Mumbai Indians, whom he led to five titles, won plaudits. He proved himself a methodical, studious and calm leader, one not averse to using technology and data to arrive at decisions. He was an able deputy to Virat Kohli in limited-overs formats in international cricket, winning India two titles in Kohli’s absence, and took over as captain in all formats in 2022.

Rohit Sharma IPL factfile

– Rohit Sharma has won six IPL titles: one with Deccan Chargers and five as captain of Mumbai Indians (MI), making him the joint most successful captain in the Indian Premier League.

– He joined Mumbai in 2011 and became captain in 2013. He took them to their maiden IPL title in his first season as captain and went on to lead MI for 11 years before he was replaced by Hardik Pandya for the 2024 season.

– Rohit is MI’s top-scorer and one of only four batters with more than 6000 runs in the IPL. His only hundred – 109* against Kolkata Knight Riders – came in IPL 2012.

– Rohit’s best IPL season with the bat was in 2013, when he scored 538 runs in MI’s title-winning campaign. In 2015, Rohit was the Player of the Final as Mumbai beat Chennai Super Kings to win their second IPL title. MI went on to win the IPL in 2017, 2019 and 2020 under Rohit’s leadership

Virat Kohli player profile

India has given to the world many a great cricketer but perhaps none as ambitious as Virat Kohli. To meet his ambition, Kohli employed the technical assiduousness of Sachin Tendulkar and fitness that was in the league of top athletes in the world, not just cricketers. As a result, Kohli became the most consistent all-format accumulator of his time, making jaw-dropping chases look easy, and finding, in his own words, the safest possible way to score runs. Plenty of them.

This ambition transferred seamlessly to his captaincy: he demanded more than ever of his bowlers especially the quick ones, often sacrificed a batsman for bowling depth, and led India to a long stay at No. 1 in Test rankings and a first-ever series win in Australia. He is well on his way to end up as India’s most successful Test captain.

Barring one in Bangladesh, Kohli scored Test hundreds in and against every country he played. He absolutely smashed records for number of matches taken to reach eight, nine, ten and eleven thousand ODI runs, and became the first batter to score 50 hundreds in one-day internationals.

An Under-19 world Cup-winning captain, when he burst onto the scene, Kohli was a precocious talent with a cover drive to kill for. He was destined to be India’s next big batsman as the Tendulkar era began to retire, but Kohli wanted to be more: a cricketer whom the opposition would be in awe of, a cricketer whose presence would raise the intensity of the contest. He lived every ball, competed each moment, and made sure he had the fitness and strength to do so. He was widely credited for changing the fitness culture in Indian cricket, introducing endurance tests as a criterion for selection.

Kohli was quite simply India’s most powerful captain. Centre of every marketing campaign for Indian cricket, he also happened to lead at a time when the BCCI was run by interim administrators who knew better than to draw the ire of Indian cricket’s biggest star. There was never any cause to doubt his intent: to do things that will win matches for India, which they did plenty under him.

Virat Kohli IPL factfile

– Virat Kohli is the only player in the Indian Premier League (IPL) to have played all seasons for one team:
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)

– He was picked by RCB soon after he captained India to victory in the 2008 Under-19 World Cup and has been retained by them ever since

– Kohli is the IPL’s highest run-scorer and the only one with more than 8000 runs

– He holds the record for most IPL centuries (8) as well as most runs in a season (973 runs in 2016). He has won the Orange Cap twice – in 2016 and 2024

– Kohli captained RCB full-time from 2013 to 2021 and led them to the final in the 2016 season, when they lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad

– Kohli holds the record for the most prolific partnerships in the IPL, with AB de Villiers (3123 runs) and Chris Gayle (2787 runs)

– His popularity has made RCB one of the most followed teams in the IPL, even though they haven’t yet won a title

Najmul Hossain Shanto player profile

Although he made his debut in 2017, and scored two Test hundreds in 2021, it took Najmul Hossain Shanto more than five years to truly establish himself in the Bangladesh side. But once he did, he was rewarded by being appointed Bangladesh’s captain in all three formats.

The turnaround in his form came at the 2022 T20 World Cup. He began the tournament uncertain of his place in the XI but finished it as his side’s leading run-getter. The clarity in his mind and his shot-making was evident as he turned 2023 into a bumper year, becoming Bangladesh’s top run-scorer in every format. He scored 1650 international runs at an average of 42.30 that year, versus 1603 runs at 22.90 between 2017 and 2023. Mostly a No. 3 batter, Shanto cemented his place in the ODI and Test sides in 2023, and also became the first Bangladesh batter to score over 500 runs in a BPL season.

In May that year, he made his first ODI century, in a narrow win over Ireland. A month later he got his first Test hundreds at home – a twin effort in a massive victory over Afghanistan in Mirpur, following it up with a controlled, clinical hundred against a patient New Zealand attack in Bangladesh’s next Test. He went into the ODI World Cup having scored a half-century and a hundred in successive Asia Cup matches and kicked off the global tournament with two more 50-plus scores. Although a string of single-digit scores followed, Shanto broke the rut in style with a match-winning 90 in the infamous timed-out match against Sri Lanka – where it was he who pointed out to captain Shakib Al Hasan that Bangladesh had the right to appeal against Angelo Matthews for taking too long to face his first ball. In his first major series as the long-term captain, against Sri Lanka at home in 2024, Shanto led Bangladesh to a 2-1 win in ODIs at home over Sri Lanka, but lost the T20I and Test series. Ahead of the 2024 T20 World Cup, Bangladesh lost a series to USA as well.

Shanto first came to attention through a double-century in a school one-day match, which led to a place in the Bangladesh Under-17s and from there the U-19 World Cups, in 2014 and 2016; in the latter, he was Bangladesh’s top run-getter with 259 runs at 64.75. He played his first Test, in Christchurch in 2017, as an injury replacement for Mominul Haque. In between, Shanto had made his first-class debut, reeling off four half-centuries and a hundred in the space of a month in the 2015-16 season.

Litton Das player profile

Litton Das made his way into the Bangladesh senior sides following his exploits for Abahani in the Dhaka Premier League, and Rangpur Division in the National Cricket League in 2014-15, where he was the top scorer.

Perhaps the first wicketkeeper-batter in the country good enough to be seen as a long-term successor to Mushfiqur Rahim, he emerged from the northern district of Dinajpur, around 330km from the capital, Dhaka, beginning his adolescent life as a young cricketer at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan and impressing with his heavy run-scoring in schools and age-group cricket. Litton was picked in Bangladesh’s Under-19 side in 2012, the year after he made his first-class debut, and over two U-19 World Cups, that year and in 2014, he cumulatively averaged over 50, with a century and three fifties.

A compact batter with a good defence and flair, Litton made 44 in his first Test, against India in Fatullah in mid-2015, and followed that up with a fifty that helped fetch a first-innings lead against South Africa in Chattogram. In Bloemfontein two years on, he top-scored for Bangladesh with 70 after the home side racked up a massive total. He made 94 against Sri Lanka in the match after that, but his first Test hundred took nearly another four years to materialise, coming late in 2021 against Pakistan, in Chattogram again. He top-scored in the second innings of that game too, with 59, but Pakistan won thanks to a feeble performance by the other Bangladesh batters. That match came near the start of a nine-Test purple patch, spanning about 11 months running from mid-2021, in which Litton averaged a little under 60, making three hundreds and five fifties, including 102 after Bangladesh followed on in Christchurch.

In the thrilling ODI Asia Cup final in Dubai in 2018 that India won off the last ball, Litton set up the game, scoring 121 in an innings where eight of his team-mates failed to get double figures. The following year, he played a co-starring role in the ODI World Cup win over West Indies in Taunton, making 94 in a massive partnership with Shakib Al Hasan.

In the BPL, he has been a fixture for Comilla Victorians, featuring in three title-winning sides in his first six seasons with them and being their top scorer in 2022-23, one of those title-winning years.

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Top All Rounder India vs Bangladesh

Axar Patel player profile

Left-arm spinner Axar Patel has been increasingly handy with the bat in the lower order across formats – enough to be classified as a bowling allrounder. He played just one first-class game in his debut season for Gujarat, but had a more successful showing in 2013, when he was one of the key contributors to India Under-23s’ title win in the ACC Emerging Teams Cup, with seven wickets, including a four-for in the semi-final against UAE. He was consistent for Gujarat with bat and ball in the Ranji Trophy that season, finishing with 369 runs at an average of 46.12 and 29 wickets at 23.58.

Axar scored an IPL contract with Mumbai Indians ahead of the 2013 season but didn’t get a game. He had a more impressive season the following year, after switching to Kings XI Punjab – 16 wickets at an economy rate of 6.22 – and was rewarded with a place in the Indian ODI squad for the tour to Bangladesh, though he only played one match.

He made his T20 debut against Zimbabwe in 2015, but for the next three years found himself in and out of the limited-overs squads, stepping in more often than not in the absence of Ravindra Jadeja. His Test debut likewise came about when Jadeja was forced to sit out the 2021 England series with a broken thumb. Axar took five wickets on debut in the second Test in Chennai, and followed it up with an 11-wicket haul in the third: he finished the series with 27 wickets. In 2022, he made a 27-ball fifty, his first in ODIs, to seal a series win for India against West Indies.

Axar Patel IPL factfile

– Axar Patel was first signed by Mumbai Indians in IPL 2013 but did not get a game. He was then picked up for INR 75 lakh by Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) in the IPL 2014 auction.

– Axar had an immediate impact picking 17 wickets in as many games in his debut season, the joint-sixth-most in IPL 2014. He had a big role in taking Kings to the final for the first and so far, only time in the IPL.

– In IPL 2016, Axar claimed a hat-trick, taking four wickets in five balls in a match against the now-defunct Gujarat Lions.

– Axar stayed with Kings for five seasons till IPL 2018 before being released ahead of the 2019 auction.

– Axar was picked for INR 5 crore by Delhi Capitals in the IPL 2019 auction and has stayed with them since. He was one of four players retained by Capitals ahead of the IPL 2022 mega auction for INR 9 crore.

R Ashwin player profile

R Ashwin took the tricks and skills he learned playing tennis-ball cricket on the streets of Chennai, particularly the soduku ball, a finger-flicked legbreak, to Test cricket, where he became perhaps the leading offspinner of the first quarter of the 21st century.

All through his career Ashwin has been a cricket nerd with a deep appreciation of the nuances of the game and an acute knowledge of his craft. And it was that sharp brain, along with the carrom ball, an equally good arm ball, and masterly control over his offbreaks that made him a quintessential limited-overs spinner early in his career. It was in Test cricket, though, that he became a force after he brought the full scope of his talents to bear on it.

His success was desperately needed by India in the time after Anil Kumble retired and Harbhajan Singh was on the wane. Ashwin took nine wickets in his maiden Test, in which he was Player of the Match. In his first 16 Tests he collected nine five-fors, and he went on to be the fastest to 300 wickets and the second fastest to 400, behind only Muthiah Muralidaran.

Among the highlights of Ashwin’s Test career: 30 five-fors and counting, 90-odd wickets apiece against both Australia and England, and over 50 wickets a year four times. He reached his zenith in the 2016-17 home season, when he took 27 wickets in a three-Test series against New Zealand, 28 in five matches against England, six in a game against Bangladesh, and 21 against Australia in four Tests.

Ashwin was picked by Chennai Super Kings in the IPL in 2009, and was one of the rare players who came into the public’s reckoning through the IPL and proved himself good enough to have great success in Test cricket. He spent six seasons at CSK, winning the title twice, bowling at the top and the death, and coming on when wickets were required. He was the Man of the Series in the 2010 Champions League in South Africa.

He was part of the winning squad in the 2011 World Cup, but got few chances in that tournament ahead of Harbhajan. In the 2015 tournament, he made up with 13 wickets from eight games in India’s run to the semi-final. In T20Is his finest hour was the World Cup in 2014, when he took 4 for 11 against Australia, and 11 wickets in all in the tournament, where India lost in the final.

An opener with the bat before he took up offspin, Ashwin has been a more than handy lower-order batter, correct, possessed of shots, and with five Test hundreds to his name.

R Ashwin IPL factfile

– Offspinner R Ashwin has played for five IPL teams since his debut season in 2009, and his most recent franchise is Rajasthan Royals (RR), whom he has been playing for since 2022.

– With 171 wickets before the start of IPL 2024, Ashwin is among the top-five wicket-takers in IPL history.

– Ashwin began his IPL career at Chennai Super Kings (CSK), whom he represented from 2008 to 2015. In the 2011 IPL final between CSK and RCB, MS Dhoni gave Ashwin the new ball and he took the key wicket of Chris Gayle in the first over. Ashwin’s 20 wickets in 2011 is his highest tally in an IPL season to date.

– After CSK were banned for two years following corruption charges, Ashwin played IPL 2016 for Rising Pune Supergiant and missed 2017 because of injury, before moving to Kings XI Punjab (KXIP, now Punjab Kings).

– Ashwin was captain of KXIP from 2018, and in 2019 his mankading (run-out of the non-striker backing-up) of RR batter Jos Buttler became a subject of heated debate.

– Ahead of IPL 2020, Ashwin was traded to Delhi Capitals, where he spent two seasons before moving to RR in 2022. At Royals, he was used up the order as a pinch-hitter and became the first batter to retire out tactically in an IPL game.

Mehidy Hasan player profile

Mehedi Hasan Miraz has emerged as one of the brightest young stars in Bangladesh cricket. He led the country to their first appearance in an Under-19 World Cup semi-final in February 2016, before making the year more memorable with his Test debut, against England in October.

He is a batting allrounder who bowls right-arm offspin with a quiet action where he trundles to the wicket before giving a slight leap before rotating his upper body. It is a beautifully simple action that has yielded him many wickets in the U-19 and first-class level.

Born in Barisal, Mehedi grew up in Daulatpur in the outskirts of Khulna city. He learned offspin from Sheikh Salahuddin, the former Bangladesh player regarded as the best offspinner of his generation. Salahuddin passed away in October 2013.

Mehedi spent two years at the U-19 level, captaining Bangladesh to the 2014 World Cup in the UAE. He made his first-class debut in the 2014-15 National Cricket League but it was the next season’s tournament when he really made a mark. Mehedi took 30 wickets at 16.43, including three five-fors. He was a star in the 2016 U-19 World Cup, with his spirit coming through as a standout part of his character.

Shakib Al Hasan player profile

Easily the finest player Bangladesh have produced, Shakib Al Hasan is a canny, consistent and accurate bowler and an aggressive batter with a wide range of strokes in his repertoire. He has spent long periods at the top of the ICC’s allrounder rankings across formats, a validation of his stature in the game.

In 2008, in his seventh Test, Shakib made 71 and took 7 for 36 in Chittagong against New Zealand, only the second instance of a Bangladesh bowler taking as many wickets in a Test innings. The next year, in his first Test as captain, against a weakened West Indies side in Grenada, Shakib took eight wickets and scored an unbeaten 96 in a tense but successful fourth-innings chase of 215, leading Bangladesh to their first overseas series victory. Three Tests later he scored 87 and 100 – his maiden Test century – in a losing cause against New Zealand in Hamilton.

Shakib was made captain in all formats in 2009 after Mashrafe Mortaza was sidelined by injury. Under Shakib, Bangladesh won 22 out of 47 ODIs, and even beat England in the 2011 ODI World Cup. But the disappointing tour of Zimbabwe that followed, in which Bangladesh lost a one-off Test and the ODI series, led to his removal. He was brought back as captain in Tests in 2018, and put back in charge of the ODI side as well in 2023 when Tamim Iqbal quit, though Bangladesh had a disappointing World Cup that year under Shakib.

His form hardly waned, however, as he quickly bounced back to help Bangladesh bowl out West Indies for 61 in a consolation win in an ODI series; and he capped the year with a big hundred and five-for against Pakistan in the same Test – he would repeat the feat in 2014 against Zimbabwe. Three years later he made 217 in Wellington in a Bangladesh total of 595 – their biggest against a non-Asian side away from home. A few months before, he had taken 12 wickets in two Tests in the drawn home series against England. Later in 2017 came ten wickets and 89 in the first innings in Bangladesh’s first ever Test win against Australia.

Shakib has also been a franchise cricket regular since he was first picked by Kolkata Knight Riders in 2011 and was part of their title wins in 2012 and 2014, with 12 and 11 wickets in those seasons. In 2013, his first of five seasons in the CPL, he finished with 11 wickets, the second most in the tournament, and he returned in 2016 to take 12. At home, he won two BPL titles with Dhaka sides, as player in 2013 and captain in 2016. He is the tournament’s top wicket-taker, with 149 wickets in nine seasons.

But Shakib’s cricketing brilliance has often been marred by spotty behaviour on and off field. He copped multiple fines and bans for losing his temper during games and for clashes with umpires, but his longest and most serious suspension came in 2019 when the ICC banned him for two years from all international cricket (one year suspended) for failing to report a corrupt approach. The ban came just after his most prolific ODI World Cup appearance, in which he scored fifties in seven of eight games, including two hundreds, finishing as Bangladesh’s top run-scorer and third overall.

Nevertheless Shakib is undeniably Bangladesh’s greatest cricketer, with over 14,000 runs and 700 wickets to his name in international cricket. He was the first from the side to achieve the double of 2000 runs and 100 wickets in ODIs, the only Bangladeshi bowler to have taken more than 300 wickets in the format, and he also has the most runs and wickets for the side in T20Is, a record unlikely to be surpassed by any Bangladesh allrounder in the near future.

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Top Bowlers of India vs Bangladesh

Jasprit Bumrah player profile

Jasprit Bumrah grabbed eyeballs first with his unorthodox action, and then his bowling skills. Armed with an anomalous, sling-arm action and natural pace, the peculiar release point of Bumrah’s deliveries makes it hard for batsmen to pick him.

Besides, like his Mumbai Indians team-mate, Lasith Malinga, Bumrah carved himself a reputation for possessing an uncanny ability to hit the blockhole. And, it was during his time in the IPL that he learned from the Sri Lankan to judiciously use the yorker.

A regular member of the India A team, Bumrah was on the fringes of national selection before a debilitating left knee injury at the end of 2014 kept him out for four-and-a-half months. He had to wait more than a year before earning another call-up, one which came on the back of a fruitful 2015-16 domestic season, where he was Gujarat’s second-highest wicket-taker in the Ranji Trophy and topped the bowling charts in the Vijay Hazare Trophy – that included a five-for in the List-A final that gave Gujarat their maiden one-day title.

Those performances, and an untimely injury to Mohammed Shami, meant Bumrah took the flight to Australia, where he played a central role for India, finishing as the highest wicket-taker from either side as the visitors swept the T20Is 3-0. It was a showing that earned him the praise of MS Dhoni – who called him the find of the tour – as well as a place in India’s squad for the 2016 World T20.

Jasprit Bumrah IPL factfile

– Jasprit Bumrah is one of the key players in Mumbai Indians’ (MI) rise to becoming five-time champions in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He is their second-highest wicket-taker after Lasith Malinga.

Mohammed Siraj player profile

Mohammed Siraj’s rise as a seamer was remarkably swift. The son of an autorickshaw driver in Hyderabad, he only began playing the game in class seven. It was in 2015 that he first bowled with a cricket ball. In 2017, he bagged an IPL contract worth INR 2.6 crore. Months later, he was wearing an India shirt and bowling in a T20 international against New Zealand.

Sturdy and athletic, Siraj has a deceptive run-up, which initially suggests that a left-arm bowler is steaming in. He is, however, a right-armer and by his own admission is a natural at getting the ball to swing into the right-hander. He has always been able to bowl a pretty quick bouncer though, something that had impressed his captain David Warner and team mentor VVS Laxman in the Sunrisers Hyderabad set-up.

Potential translated to performance when he was his state’s highest wicket-taker playing only his second season of Ranji Trophy – 41 wickets in nine matches. He was subsequently picked to play for the Rest of India and was brought on board by the India A team as well for a tour of South Africa in July-August 2017. The step up to the big league arrived soon after.

Taskin Ahmed player profile

Taskin Ahmed is regarded as the leader of Bangladesh’s fast bowling attack in the post-Mashrafe Mortaza period. He has had two phases of his international career after injuries and poor form forced him into the wilderness for three years. He was a firebrand in the first phase, often erratic in line and length. When he made his comeback in 2021, Taskin’s pace remained consistent, but he had also matured into a disciplined fast bowler.

Taskin has been among Bangladesh’s top wicket-takers in the white-ball formats since his comeback and was critical in their historic ODI series win against South Africa in 2022 picking 5 for 35 in the deciding game in Centurion.

Taskin’s willingness to improve in his three years out of the Bangladesh side stood out. During the pandemic, he admittedly suffered from a panic attack when playing cricket became uncertain. He called up a gym instructor and a fast bowling coach, roamed around a shutdown Dhaka looking for training facilities, and even ran on sand in the city’s outskirts just to keep up with fitness demands.

Taskin eventually returned to the side in all three formats in 2021, slowly building himself under fast-bowling coach Ottis Gibson and then improving with Allan Donald in 2022. Donald found Taskin to be the “leader of the attack” in his attitude and with his performance.

He has had to contend with a shoulder injury in 2023, but Taskin had become so dependable that he was named Najmul Hossain Shanto’s deputy for the T20 World Cup in 2024.

Taskin’s first phase was exciting too, but it was riddled with injuries. He burst onto the scene after his YouTube video as an Under-19 bowler became popular. He had trained at the famous Abahani field in Dhaka, having grown up in the Mohammadpur area nearby.

Shane Jurgensen, Bangladesh’s head coach from 2012 to 2014, gave Taskin a T20I debut during the T20 World Cup in 2014, before his ODI debut came a couple of months later against India. He became the first Bangladesh bowler to take a five-for on ODI debut, and the first to do it against India in 23 years.

Taskin had a great 2016-17 season taking 20 ODI wickets but soon disappeared due to injuries and poor form. He had made a poor start in Tests, too, but has since brought down those numbers significantly in all formats. Although he has to manage through the shoulder injury, he remains a key cog in the Bangladesh bowling unit.

Hasan Mahmud is one among a group of young pace bowlers who have given hope of a fast bowling uprising in Bangladesh, after decades of reliance on spin. Mahmud is still at a very early stage of his career, having just played a single T20I for Bangladesh, and earned a maiden call-up in the ODI side in January 2021, but already he has earned plenty of praise from Bangladesh’s coaches for his ability to bowl fast, full and accurately.

Mahmud is also one of the rarities in Bangladesh cricket, in that he is also a very good outfielder among the pace bowlers. He is not very tall, but with an action that is mostly front-on, he generates enough pace to beat the bat. During the Bangabandhu T20 Cup in November 2020, Mahmud took eleven wickets for eventual champions Gemcon Khulna, which got him the ODI call-up against West Indies.

He mainly emerged from the BCB’s age-group structure, having first played for the Chattogram Under-16s in 2015, since he is from Laxmipur, a district within the Chattogram Division. He developed for three years in the system, culminating in his nine wickets in the 2018 Under-19 World Cup.

He quickly followed it up with 12 wickets in the Dhaka Premier League (List-A) and continued to play for the Under-23 side. In the 2019-20 season, he took ten wickets each in the BPL (T20s) and Bangladesh Cricket League (first-class) competitions, before making his T20I debut against Zimbabwe in March 2020.

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