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Sri Lanka conquered after 22 years.

England, Australia, RSA are next. :kohli
 
The Great? Sorry to say but so far he is acting like Kid. Especially after perera wicket :facepalm:
 
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#GreenRoars said:
The Great? Sorry to say but so far he is acting like Kid. Especially after Mathews wicket :facepalm:
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You mean Perera coz he actually patted Mathews on the back after he was dismissed.Disgusting behaviour when Perera was dismissed for sure.
 
Congratz for series win, India.

Too early to make claims for the future. Picture will get clearer after SA series.

Kohli can be a very good captain. His field placing and bowling changes are upto the mark (room for improvement is there ofcourse).

The first priority right now is to find the best possible combination. Are Binny, Rohit and Bhajji are the players they should rely upon in future to win them matches? Who among Rahul, Dhawan and Vijay are going to be long term openers? At which number Pujara and Rahane will bat? Is 5 bowler strategy suitable for Asian conditions, specially considering Mishra has been underbowled to a great extent in this series, despite having better average and SR than even Ashwin.

As for Indian bowling, they have bowled well this series. SL haven't tested them much, but SA will. The problem with them in the past has been, that whenever they have been attacked or a partnership is develped, they lose the plot. Start bowling too many bad balls, and that don't allow them to get back into the game.

Lets see how this team does against SA.
 
Good win

SL is a fairly weak team but credit where credit is due.
 
Slog said:
Good win

SL is a fairly weak team but credit where credit is due.
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It was a battle of a weak teams but some key knocks under pressure helped India win. Pujara, Rahul, Rahane and good bowling by Ishant and Ashbin

Pathetic display of antics from Kohli and Ishant on field. Learn to maintain some standards or else will look like a tool if you have lost it.
 
adit_sh said:
It was a battle of a weak teams but some key knocks under pressure helped India win. Pujara, Rahul, Rahane and good bowling by Ishant and Ashbin

Pathetic display of antics from Kohli and Ishant on field. Learn to maintain some standards or else will look like a tool if you have lost it.
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I think India lower orders greater contribution was the difference
Would be interesting to see their contribution to runs % compared to SL if someone call pull stats up
 
The good thing is that he is proactive.

The bad thing is that he makes SO MANY MISTAKES (team selection & bowling changes).

But keeps learning.

Need more sample set but defo a better option compared to Dhoni.

Annoyed at him and team management to treat Pujara that way after he did well in the warm up game.
 
India's batting looks more fragile than a glass.. Not really sure what has gone so wrong
 
Chrish said:
India's batting looks more fragile than a glass.. Not really sure what has gone so wrong
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Is this a joke?

It has looked much better than SL overall. the conditions have not been easy. SL pacers have not been too bad except Chameera.

and this despite 2 openers been out injured during the series!

no one actually stood out. even Rohit Sharma has contributed!
 
I think India should remain humble, their next series is against SA, who are best overall team as they haven't lost a series for a while now & players like Amla, De Villiers and Duminy are great against spin.
 
Ottoman said:
I think India should remain humble, their next series is against SA, who are best overall team as they haven't lost a series for a while now & players like Amla, De Villiers and Duminy are great against spin.
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Humility is important but it is important to be aggressive against the Saffers because you can be sure that Steyn will be sledging as well. The key will be to mentally disintegrate them as Saffers don't do well under pressure.
 
Ottoman said:
I think India should remain humble, their next series is against SA, who are best overall team as they haven't lost a series for a while now & players like Amla, De Villiers and Duminy are great against spin.
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Hope Pakistan follows this as well. Slew of away tests coming up.
 
Lethalweapon said:
Is this a joke?

It has looked much better than SL overall. the conditions have not been easy. SL pacers have not been too bad except Chameera.

and this despite 2 openers been out injured during the series!

no one actually stood out. even Rohit Sharma has contributed!
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Sri Lanka is no benchmark
 
Hopefully, we will have Pakistan and India Tests during the Azhar and Kohli era, after none during the Misbah and Dhoni era.
 
Lethalweapon said:
Is this a joke?

It has looked much better than SL overall. the conditions have not been easy. SL pacers have not been too bad except Chameera.

and this despite 2 openers been out injured during the series!

no one actually stood out. even Rohit Sharma has contributed!
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If it weren't for Indian tail showing spine, India would have been crushed

Their top order looks rubbish even in familiar conditions.. Years ago India was a juggernaut in Asian conditions. That's no longer the case

I have a feeling series against SA will not go well for India
 
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Did someone just say Duminy is great against spin?

South Africa actually revived the declining career of Harbhajan around 2010-11, giving him plenty of wickets home and away! no other team comes close except SL incidentally. he was bad against Aussies then, imagine!

weird, isn't it?

that gives me confidence that SA's spin playing prowess is not as great as everyone claims. and India should beat them in couple of tests in this series through spin alone.
 
India's batting against spin looks pretty woeful as well.. SA has at least 2-3 players who can counter spin.. India on the other hand will struggle against Tahir

Needless to say the reverse swing of Steyn.. It will be lot more difficult series compared to SL
 
Chrish said:
If it weren't for Indian tail showing spine, India would have been crushed

Their top order looks rubbish even in familiar conditions.. Years ago India was a juggernaut in Asian conditions. That's no longer the case

I have a feeling series against SA will not go well for India
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I did not see any rubbish! everyone contributed in the top 5.

and how is a grassy pitch familiar? previous pitch was seaming throughout.
Galle collapse was bad. but I am not sure that would have happened without Herath.

3 players who got injured also did well., Saha, Dhawan and Vijay.

what exactly were you expecting, 100s from everyone in every test?
 
Kohli can win games but can never win hearts and become idol for millions like MS Dhoni. Atleast in my eyes.

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Chrish said:
India's batting against spin looks pretty woeful as well.. SA has at least 2-3 players who can counter spin.. India on the other hand will struggle against Tahir

Needless to say the reverse swing of Steyn.. It will be lot more difficult series compared to SL
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India never struggles again leg spin! It has not happened in decades. off spin. yes. leg spin, NEVER.

will be a first if Tahir does it! he is currently dropped from SA test team, btw. nad he FAILED in SL last year.
 
Lethalweapon said:
Did someone just say Duminy is great against spin?

South Africa actually revived the declining career of Harbhajan around 2010-11, giving him plenty of wickets home and away! no other team comes close except SL incidentally. he was bad against Aussies then, imagine!

weird, isn't it?

that gives me confidence that SA's spin playing prowess is not as great as everyone claims. and India should beat them in couple of tests in this series through spin alone.
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The problem is apart from Pujara, India hasn't got any very good player of spin themself.
 
Indian_Supporter said:
Kohli can win games but can never win hearts and become idol for millions like MS Dhoni. Atleast in my eyes.

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why so?

that poor celebration was the only such swearing instance by him in the last 7 months.

Dhoni was a loser captain in tests. I don't respect defensive captain like him. Dravid was more aggressive!
 
Indian_Supporter said:
Kohli can win games but can never win hearts and become idol for millions like MS Dhoni. Atleast in my eyes.

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Dont care as long as he's winning games.

MS Dhoni's test captaincy post 2011WC is some of the worst i've ever seen and wasn't half the test player Kohli is/can be. Kohli's leadership has infused some freshness to the team.

I dont get my fellow countrymen's obsession with 'well behaved' players like SRT,Dravid,Kumble,Dhoni etc. Not everyone needs to be the same. Kohli is cocky and that aggression helps him.
 
Scrolln said:
Dont care as long as he's winning games.

MS Dhoni's test captaincy post 2011WC is some of the worst i've ever seen and wasn't half the test player Kohli is/can be. Kohli's leadership has infused some freshness to the team.

I dont get my fellow countrymen's obsession with 'well behaved' players like SRT,Dravid,Kumble,Dhoni etc. Not everyone needs to be the same. Kohli is cocky and that aggression helps him.
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Let Kohli captain overseas in places like Aust, NZ and Eng. Then we can access.

MSD was a fantastic skipper at home. Post 2011 WC how many tests India played at home? He was unlucky in that sense as he played 2 series in Eng, 2 in Aust, 1 in NZ, 1 in SA in a span of 3 years. No captain played so many back to back overseas series.

Apart from England series, he did not lose a single one at home. Whitewashed Aust and WI.

Yes, he had issues overseas but we need to wait to see how Kohli does when India tour abroad. Might be a longer wait as India is scheduled to play only at home for now.

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Mobashir said:
The problem is apart from Pujara, India hasn't got any very good player of spin themself.
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Vijay is better than him. I agree with your statement though.

Rohit can also be good against spin but reckless.

Kohli, Rahane can be suspect.

but none of these have faltered against leg spin yet . I have seen them smashing some of them , not so long ago.
 
Indian_Supporter said:
Kohli can win games but can never win hearts and become idol for millions like MS Dhoni. Atleast in my eyes.

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Well Kohli has one fan right here! Anyways Kohli's there to win games for India not to be liked by everyone.
 
Indian_Supporter said:
Let Kohli captain overseas in places like Aust, NZ and Eng. Then we can access.

MSD was a fantastic skipper at home. Post 2011 WC how many tests India played at home? He was unlucky in that sense as he played 2 series in Eng, 2 in Aust, 1 in NZ, 1 in SA in a span of 3 years. No captain played so many back to back overseas series.

Apart from England series, he did not lose a single one at home. Whitewashed Aust and WI.

Yes, he had issues overseas but we need to wait to see how Kohli does when India tour abroad. Might be a longer wait as India is scheduled to play only at home for now.

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The Adelaide test this year under Kohli, was the closest we had come to winning a test in Australia since 2008. Scores tons in both innings.

This the the difference between having a captain who is a gun player and a mediocre test captain leading a great team (which was the case with Dhoni) As far as home tests are concerned, we have been dominating since the 90's.

I was just worried about whether Kohli would be able to lead from the front and not be another SRT-type case. But he has proven all his detractors wrong in this series.
 
Mobashir said:
The problem is apart from Pujara, India hasn't got any very good player of spin themself.
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Harmer isn't all that great and Tahir is too inconsistent for tests. They wont expose this Indian's batting weakness vs spin.
 
Mishra said something in Interview today which changed my outlook as well, something along the lines that Kohli is a guy that inspires them to give that extra bit to win the game. And a captain leading from the front definitely does pump up the players. Even if we lose under him, we've seen our team fight.

MSD was a good role model as a cricketer but he was hardly someone who could inspire you to perform in tests given his limited abilities. He was a great man manager, hence the no.1 rankings when he had a great team.
 
Honestly I am disappointed with India's batting. If this is how they fare against a weak SL side, imagine how Oz and SA would rip them apart.
 
IndianWillow said:
Honestly I am disappointed with India's batting. If this is how they fare against a weak SL side, imagine how Oz and SA would rip them apart.
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These pitches on SL were more competitive that the ones when we toured Aus and SA last time.

Kohli/Rahane/Vijay did well everywhere iirc.
 
Aspiring to beat England in England or Australia away just after beating this poor Sri Lankan side....


erm ok
 
Indian_Supporter said:
Kohli can win games but can never win hearts and become idol for millions like MS Dhoni. Atleast in my eyes.

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Wining hearts is not objective. Nice people end up last. Which was what happened with India in past.
Dishing out back what was dished in past to India and India took it quitely did not make India win any games.
This is first series win under Kohli. This has got India 2-1 win...although if DRs was there it would be 3-0

Basically you cannot be a nice guy and win lots.
Sachin was nice guy, but did he win lots? No
Ponting was not a nice guy well not really bad either but look at his win record

Basically if opposition players are getting riled up on loosing, you are doing something right
 
First of the many series wins in 'The Kohli Era'
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Sound like a tall claim to me, because, IND still has to prove a lot against stronger opponents on AWAY tours.
 
#GreenRoars said:
Can't believe that people calling Dhoni a Loser :facepalm:
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Even hard-core Indian fans would agree that Dhoni was a weak test captain with the luxury of having the greatest Indian batting line-up in history to back up for it.

Kohli is easily better.
 
Scrolln said:
Even hard-core Indian fans would agree that Dhoni was a weak test captain with the luxury of having the greatest Indian batting line-up in history to back up for it.

Kohli is easily better.
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the exaggerations in your post are seriously GROSS
 
#GreenRoars said:
Can't believe that people calling Dhoni a Loser :facepalm:
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Some of them have already started going after Virat for his captaincy , thats Indian fans for you .

Iam worried for Virat though , unlike Dhoni I doubt he can handle the immature media and fans
 
mp812rediff said:
Wining hearts is not objective. Nice people end up last. Which was what happened with India in past.
Dishing out back what was dished in past to India and India took it quitely did not make India win any games.
This is first series win under Kohli. This has got India 2-1 win...although if DRs was there it would be 3-0

Basically you cannot be a nice guy and win lots.
Sachin was nice guy, but did he win lots? No
Ponting was not a nice guy well not really bad either but look at his win record

Basically if opposition players are getting riled up on loosing, you are doing something right
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He did not ?

I will let the Tendu fan brigade on this thread answer that for you .
 
Sachin136 said:
I saw that but how is that an exaggeration? Sachin, Dravid, Laxman, Sehwag etc did form the best Indian batting line up ever.
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the part that Dhoni was a weak test captain...Indian fans should realize their misery in cricket is related to how weak their bowling has been, nothing to do with the batting or the captain, to win tests you need 20 wickets.
 
Sachin136 said:
I saw that but how is that an exaggeration? Sachin, Dravid, Laxman, Sehwag etc did form the best Indian batting line up ever.
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India rose to #1 under Dhoni when these players had not yet begun their terminal decline. During 2011 when India's slide started, India no longer had a good batting lineup. Between 2011-2013 we were full of aging seniors and between 2013-2015 we were full of inexperienced youngsters. Kohli now has a much better team where the youngsters who played under Dhoni have now become more experienced.
 
sshakir411 said:
the part that Dhoni was a weak test captain...Indian fans should realize their misery in cricket is related to how weak their bowling has been, nothing to do with the batting or the captain, to win tests you need 20 wickets.
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Bowling was made look bad due to horrible catching throughout the NZ, England and Australia.

No one has highlighted that! except one catch of Cook in England.

Kane Williamson was dropped repeatedly by India first , and then SL when they toured NZ in every format.
not one so called cricket fan mentions that.

but they have a major issue against tailenders , definitely.

Batting has had enough collapses. tests in Australia and Durban test before that are some of the occasions!
bowling can't be blamed if batting fails in good batting conditions.
 
IndianWillow said:
India rose to #1 under Dhoni when these players had not yet begun their terminal decline. During 2011 when India's slide started, India no longer had a good batting lineup. Between 2011-2013 we were full of aging seniors and between 2013-2015 we were full of inexperienced youngsters. Kohli now has a much better team where the youngsters who played under Dhoni have now become more experienced.
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why is Dhoni getting such excuses to hide his mistakes? Ganguly and Dravid had no such luck! what a shame!
they were kicked out or made to resign? isn't it?
 
Just want Kohli vs MSD and Che vs Rohit dies down!

Every player has their own flair, just because you don't like certain flair, doesn't make other flair evil. Every players play to win.
 
sensible-indian-fan said:
Its a contest of who is more lamer when it comes to batting. :))
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only Mathews and Chandimal scored runs, followed by Sanga and Herath, neither got a 50.

every Indian got runs at some point or the other in the series, even those 3 injured players got good crucuial scores.

Can you say the same about other Srilankans?

I find the undermining ridiculous now.

Aussies themselves won't bat properly in those conditions anyway. Atleast SA has Amla and AB!
 
Lethalweapon said:
Bowling was made look bad due to horrible catching throughout the NZ, England and Australia.

No one has highlighted that! except one catch of Cook in England.

Kane Williamson was dropped repeatedly by India first , and then SL when they toured NZ in every format.
not one so called cricket fan mentions that.

but they have a major issue against tailenders , definitely.

Batting has had enough collapses. tests in Australia and Durban test before that are some of the occasions!
bowling can't be blamed if batting fails in good batting conditions.
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don't watch India games so no idea about their dropped catches. Every time I've seen them play though the bowlers have been sub par
 
cricketworm said:
Just want Kohli vs MSD and Che vs Rohit dies down!

Every player has their own flair, just because you don't like certain flair, doesn't make other flair evil. Every players play to win.
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MSD had flair? 10 years ago. maybe.

the man never faced humiliations and criticisms that Ganguly/Dravid suffered in their tenures.

he was a world cup winner after all. Ganguly and Dravid were WC losers (I have heard this from a Dhoni fan. not my words).

hence, his incompetency in tests as captain is forgiven!

I want to see how many Indians deny this. I have seen this logic mentioned on this forum as well.
 
sshakir411 said:
don't watch India games so no idea about their dropped catches. Every time I've seen them play though the bowlers have been sub par
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it is sub par against the tailenders. infact, like I said just horrible.

atleast in the last 16 months.
 
Lethalweapon said:
why is Dhoni getting such excuses to hide his mistakes? Ganguly and Dravid had no such luck! what a shame!
they were kicked out or made to resign? isn't it?
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Both Ganguly and Dravid had great teams to play with. Dhoni too had a very good team until 2010.
 
Lethalweapon said:
only Mathews and Chandimal scored runs, followed by Sanga and Herath, neither got a 50.

every Indian got runs at some point or the other in the series, even those 3 injured players got good crucuial scores.

Can you say the same about other Srilankans?

I find the undermining ridiculous now.

Aussies themselves won't bat properly in those conditions anyway. Atleast SA has Amla and AB!
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Aussies are considered a joke in Asia anyways.
 
Lethalweapon said:
MSD had flair? 10 years ago. maybe.

the man never faced humiliations and criticisms that Ganguly/Dravid suffered in their tenures.

he was a world cup winner after all. Ganguly and Dravid were WC losers (I have heard this from a Dhoni fan. not my words).

hence, his incompetency in tests as captain is forgiven!

I want to see how many Indians deny this. I have seen this logic mentioned on this forum as well.
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I have seen very few Indian fans claiming that Dhoni was a good captain. Dhoni should have lost his captaincy in 2012 (after the English/Aussie whitewashes, or at least after home loss to England). But there were no captaincy alternatives. Seniors like Dravid and Laxman had retired. Seniors like Gambhir, Sehwag, Bhajji, Yuvraj and Zaheer were no longer sure of their place in the side by 2012. Tendulkar was never in the race. That left us with very few options in 2012 - the likes of Kohli, Pujara, Ashwin, Dhawan, Vijay etc who had just debuted in test cricket and their places in the test side wasn't even guaranteed over the short term. Dhoni continued as captain only because there were no alternatives. Dhoni was not a great test captain and to make the matters worse he had to handle a depleted side full of inexperienced players. How can a side that loses Dravid, Laxman, Sachin, Sehwag, Gambhir, Bhajji, Zaheer etc in the space of twelve months be a competitive side regardless of who the captain is? And India were playing one tough tour after another during the worse imaginable time frame. You got to feel for Dhoni, instead of criticizing him.
 
The Great Kohli era has begun.

I feel for you if you feel sad about it because this is gonna stay.
 
Always have liked Kohli and supported his captaincy when Indian fans wanted a guy like Rahane (LMAO) and Ashwin leading them.
 
jusarrived said:
He did not ?

I will let the Tendu fan brigade on this thread answer that for you .
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How on earth did he then win the maximum numbers of MOM awards in International cricket, leaving the second one in list far behind by a margin?
 
Congrats on the series win, but it was criminal dropping the first Test in the fashion you did.

Still a lot of room for improvement, you can't get carried away with a series win in SL - nearly every side has been winning there lately.
 
You have to hand it to the Indians for a 2-1 win ..... away !!!!! Specially after they were down 0-1 after the 1st Test. Not easy to win 2 in a row .... away .... specially since all SL had to do was to sit on 1-0 lead. Not easy to do that either, mind you. The team though, is highly unsettled at the moment as openers and the w/c were missing. To win in that set up .... not easy. Although SLs were missing some of their big guns too. So all in all it evened out. Series with SA at home should be good. If they beat SA 4-0, highly unlikely, they will be ranked 1st !!!!
 
ChachaCricket said:
Do you think Kohli can surpass him?
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I think he can in ODIs at least. As a test batsman, overall batsman though Tendulkar is leagues ahead of everyone who has ever played the game. Stature wise, nobody touches Tendulkar.
 
11ShadyBrothers said:
So are you saying kohli is inferior to tendulkar and by that logic kohli's era would be inferior to tendulkar's era? :tyrion
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His captaincy era i believe is goin to be interesting. We will end up losing matches we could have drawn but we will certainly win a lot more matches we wouldnt have a chance in Dhoni's era.
 
Y'all need to calm down a bit. This Indian team is pretty weak, but the SL team is a borderline minnow team. India would have won even if Harsha Bhogle had captained. Congrats to India but don't have false hope. I've said this to Pakistanis as well when they won the series.
 
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