Chopped on! Tongue finds some extra bounce and it does for Henry Nicholls. A tentative blade and feet in concrete his downfall.<\/p>\n
Henry Nicholls of New Zealand chops on and is bowled. Photograph: Kieran McManus\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a009.34 EDT<\/p>\n 27th over: New Zealand 78-2 (Nicholls 24, Ravindra 13) The Fisher King – as absolutely no one is calling Matt Fisher \u2013 continues. Nicholls tucks a single off his hip and Ravindra collects another single with a glance to leg. Steady accumulation.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 26th over: New Zealand 76-2 (Nicholls 23, Ravindra 12) Tongue from the Pavilion End. Whistles through a maiden. The OBO\u2019s own Daniel Gallan wanders over from the bleachers and tells me that the smell of braai is actually just his natural musk. With that he disappears, like a South African Keyser Soze.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 26th over: New Zealand 76-2 (Nicholls 23, Ravindra 12) Erm\u2026 a ball from Fisher keeps low outside off stump and is inside edged past the stumps by Ravindra. Not again please! Just the single off the over, bit of a breeze here at the Oval and it keeps gusting the most phenomenal smell of barbecued meat past the outdoor press box seating. Someone is cooking up a storm on the Harleyford Road it seems, England are trying to cook up a wicket, here comes Josh Tongue.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Right then, the players gather on the boundary edge ready to take the field for the afternoon session. Sunny skies above, Matt Fisher has the ball for England. Nicholls and Ravindra to resume. Let\u2019s play.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Lunchtime Reading:<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Lunch – New Zealand 75-2<\/p>\n 25th over: New Zealand 75-2 (Nicholls 23, Ravindra 11) Archer tucks up Nicholls with a short ball. The batter then misses out with a cut that he middles straight to Ben Duckett. Archer then squares up Nicholls and an edge is taken but it flies wide of the cordon and away for four. Nicholls leaves the final ball of the session and the players head off for lunch.<\/p>\n Even Stevens for that session I reckon, Joe Root applauds his men and the crowd give a hand too, an absorbing morning session.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 24th over: New Zealand 71-2 (Nicholls 19, Ravindra 11) Ravindra has made a positive start, he picks up three with a controlled drive into the covers. Jordan Cox does some neat work on the boundary edge, the \u2018cheddar\u2019 of his resplendent ginger mullet billowing in the south London breeze.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll have one more over from Jofra Archer before the delayed lunch break.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 23rd over: New Zealand 66-2 (Nicholls 17, Ravindra 8) Shot! Can I confess that I hope Ravindra gets runs here\u2026 I love watching him bat. Archer angles one into the pads and is put away with aplomb to the midwicket boundary.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 22nd over: New Zealand 62-2 (Nicholls 17, Ravindra 4) Fisher replaces Baker. England have their dander up with about ten minutes to go until lunch. Nicholls is watchful and blocks out a maiden.<\/p>\n \u201cCrikey! Watching on TV in Taiwan while following OBO.\u201d writes Ben Ashton.<\/p>\n \u201cI said to the TV it was a shame Stokesy wasn\u2019t playing. My Taiwanese wife walked past and asked, \u2018Isn\u2019t Stokes the bloke who\u2019s the captain with all the tattoos, why\u2019s he not playing?\u2019 I said it\u2019s because he went to a nightclub a week last Monday, she said \u2018He can\u2019t still be hungover\u2019. Forget the cricket \u2013 hearing a Taiwanese woman use the word \u2018bloke\u2019 felt like a greater English triumph. By \u2018eck, she\u2019ll be a Yorkshire lass yet!\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 21st over: New Zealand 62-2 (Nicholls 17, Ravindra 4) Rachin Ravindra arrives in the middle, he\u2019ll be very keen to rack some up and put his stinker at Lord\u2019s well and truly behind him. That\u2019s a nice start, a half volley on the pads is pinged away for four through midwicket. That\u2019s exactly what Latham was trying to do with the ball before but he was too late on the shot.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Tom Latham c Bethell b Archer 27 (New Zealand 58-2)<\/p>\n Four leg byes as Archer spears one down and it clips Nicholls on the thigh pad. Another single follows off the very same. GONE! Latham tries to flick a full ball into the leg side and the leading edge is pouched by Jacob Bethell at gully.<\/p>\n Jacob Bethell of England celebrates taking the catch to dismiss Tom Latham. Photograph: Kieran McManus\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.15 EDT<\/p>\n 20th over: New Zealand 53-1 (Latham 27, Nicholls 17) A second maiden from Baker, he\u2019s settled well into Test cricket.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 19th over: New Zealand 53-1 (Latham 27, Nicholls 17) It is Jofra from the Pavilion End. Nicholls gets inside a wide-ish delivery outside off stump and carves over the infield for four. Archer responds by getting a couple to jag away late. Fifty up for New Zealand, it\u2019s been proper criggit this morning.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 18th over: New Zealand 47-1 (Latham 27, Nicholls 11) Jofra is warming up for a pre-lunch spell. Baker has a short mid on in for the leading edge, he gives the middle of the pitch a good going over and it\u2019s a maiden.<\/p>\n Here are the official re-arranged timings because of the early rain:<\/p>\n 1st session: 11:30-13:30<\/p>\n Lunch: 13:30-14:10<\/p>\n 2nd session: 14:10-16:10<\/p>\n Tea: 16:10-16:30<\/p>\n 3rd session: 16:30-18:30<\/p>\n Extra 30 minutes available to bowl the overs<\/p>\n New Zealand’s Henry Nicholls avoids a bouncer from a ball by England’s Josh Tongue . Photograph: Glyn Kirk\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.07 EDT<\/p>\n 17th over: New Zealand 47-1 (Latham 27, Nicholls 11) Tongue blots his copybook with the final ball of his over, too short, too wide and Nicholls throws his hands at it, up and over backward point for four.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 16th over: New Zealand 42-1 (Latham 26, Nicholls 7) New Zealand are accumulating nicely now, seven runs pocketed off Baker\u2019s third. Can\u2019t wait til he\u2019s bowled 12 overs and I can dust off the gag to end all gags.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 15th over: New Zealand 35-1 (Latham 19, Nicholls 7) Nasty. Tongue slams down a sharp bouncer at 88mph and Latham does well to sway out of the way.<\/p>\n \u201cCricket may be a religion for some of us, but we don\u2019t officially use the term \u2018canons\u2019 as there are no clerics involved.\u201d Writes John Starbuck. \u201c\u2018Cannons\u2019 is what you were meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n I stand corrected\u2026 said the man in the orthopedic shoes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 14th over: New Zealand 31-1 (Latham 18, Nicholls 4) Latham and Nicholls pinch four runs off Sonny Baker. The sun is beating down now in South London, if New Zealand can negotiate the next hour or so then there are plenty or runs to be scored on this track.<\/p>\n \u201cIn light of their disciplinary troubles, have England deliberately gone for more a workman-like attack with a Baker an Archer and a Fisher?\u201d asks Daniel Wilson.<\/p>\n Girds loinded for Henry Candlestick-Maker to make his debut against Pakistan in August.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 13th over: New Zealand 27-1 (Latham 15, Nicholls 3) Tongue continues, he strays too straight and Latham pings off his pads for four through the leg side. Latham leaves the next and it canons into his pad, a big appeal from Tongue and the cordon but it was going over and England wisely choose not to review.<\/p>\n Time for our first hydration break of the Test match.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 12th over: New Zealand 22-1 (Latham 10, Nicholls 3) Baker\u2019s 90s boyband curtains bounce on his for\u2019ead as he bounds in from the Vauxhall End. Close! That\u2019s a beauty from the youngster, he gets one to pitch and move away late at decent pace, 86mph says the speedo. He beats Nicholls. And again! Baker settling into Test cricket much quicker than he did with the white ball last summer. There\u2019s half an appeal for a caught and bowled off Nicholls but the ball only took thigh pad. Has Nicholls tickled the next ball down the leg side?! England think so and send it upstairs\u2026 no dice. Sonny Baker will have to wait for his first Test wicket. Eventful first over though, he can put a positive start down in his oft-mentioned notebook later on.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 11th over: New Zealand 21-1 (Latham 9, Nicholls 3) Tongue goes around the wicket and is picked off for a single into the legs side by both Latham and Nicholls. Sonny Baker is going to have his first bowl in Test cricket, deep breaths son!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 10th over: New Zealand 19-1 (Latham 8, Nicholls 2) Fisher has been probing and accurate so far this morning on his home ground, he\u2019s around 84mph so quick enough. He nearly has his second with a full ball that scuds into Latham\u2019s front pad but once again it was heading leg side with the angle. Fisher\u2019s third maiden. Tidy.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9th over: New Zealand 19-1 (Latham 8, Nicholls 2) Tongue bustles in around the wicket, he\u2019s back of a length and tucked away off the hip by Nicholls. Tongue is such a likeable bloke and thoroughly exciting bowler. He cranks his speed up into the 90s and has an appeal for an LBW off his final ball to Latham\u2026 but it was sliding down.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8th over: New Zealand 17-1 (Latham 8, Nicholls 0) Fisher peels off his second maiden. Josh Tongue is warming up. Remember:<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s Tongue as in T-U-N-G, not Tongue like T-O-N-G! What is that? TONG?\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 7th over: New Zealand 17-1 (Latham 8, Nicholls 0) Archer beats Latham with a zipper that flies past the shoulder of a poked blade. A neat push into the covers brings three for the Kiwi skipper.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 6th over: New Zealand 14-1 (Latham 5, Nicholls 0) Henry Nicholls joins Latham. Poor old Devon Conway, his long haul return results in an innocuous glove down the leg side and a single figure departure.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Devon Conway c Rew b Fisher 9 (New Zealand 14-1)<\/p>\n Conway is strangled down the leg side. Jimmy Rew gets his gloves on an early catch and Matt Fisher has his second Test wicket.<\/p>\n Matthew Fisher of England celebrates taking the wicket of Devon Conway. Photograph: Harry Murphy\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a007.04 EDT<\/p>\n 5th over: New Zealand 9-0 (Latham 3, Conway 6) Archer reels off a maiden but Latham is happy to let plenty go outside off stump.<\/p>\n \u201cWas Cicero pondering Joe Root when he wrote: \u2018It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment\u2019<\/p>\n Anyway \u2013 I have day 3 tickets, so what\u2019s your prediction for the state of play by then?\u201d<\/p>\n Let me consult the runes, Robert Hill.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 4th over: New Zealand 12-0 (Latham 4, Conway 8) Latham and Conway tuck a too straight Fisher into the leg side. Three runs off the over. I\u2019m sat next to the liquid tongued new host of the Wisden podcast and soon to be OBO debutant Cameron Ponsonby. He leans in coquettishly and whispers\u2026 a quite remarkable stat about Jofra Archer\u2019s first over.<\/p>\n The average speed of it was 144.7kph (89.9mph) \u2013 the fastest any England bowler has bowled in the first over of a Test since records began in 2006. It\u2019s also the fastest first over of a Test in England in that time.<\/p>\n Wheels.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.54 EDT<\/p>\n 3rd over: New Zealand 9-0 (Latham 3, Conway 6) Archer cranks his speeds into the 90s. A trumpeter toots and the crowd cheers. It is so nice to watch some cricket. Conway edges behind sketchily for two and there\u2019s an appeal as the ball nips past the shoulder of his blade next ball. Close but no Cuban. Conway flays outside off again and gets four.<\/p>\n \u201cSTOP GETTING THE NATIONAL WRONG!\u201d Emails Stephen Downing.<\/p>\n \u201cTired and blue blazered, fill yourself with\u2026 pound coins\u201d is a lyric from Mistaken for Strangers not Apartment Story.<\/p>\n What can I say, I\u2019m a stranger to myself, Steve. Sorry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 2nd over: New Zealand 3-0 (Latham 3, Conway 0) Here comes Matt Fisher from the Vauxhall End, his first bowl in Test cricket since Root\u2019s last Test in charge four years ago in the Caribbean. He gets some immediate movement back in and finds his groove immediately, a maiden to start.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 1st over: New Zealand 3-0 (Latham 3, Conway 0) Archer runs in from the Pavilion End, liquid smooth action and a back of a length ball that is clipped away neatly by Tom Latham for a couple into the leg side. New Zealand are up and running. Three slips and a gully for Archer. Penny for James Rew\u2019s thoughts keeping to Jofra for the first time, on his Test debut.<\/p>\n Archer gets some zip and shape away. Latham takes a quick single to midwicket. Devon Conway on strike, he\u2019s had some week too \u2013 he flew home to NZ to be at the birth of his new baby and then back again, he\u2019s out there in the middle now facing nigh on 90mph. He plays and misses his first ball outside off. Well of course he does.<\/p>\n Peter Butler knows his Camus from his erm Cicero.<\/p>\n \u201cAlbert Camus also famously said, \u201cAll that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football\u201d. Which is why he never had a problem going on the piss after midnight.\u201d<\/p>\n Arf.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The anthems are dusted off rousingly. Joe Root leads out England for the first time in four years. Bright sunshine here at the Oval and a bit muggy, Jofra Archer is going to start off with the ball. Let\u2019s play!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cHi James. Thanks for the Camus piece.\u201d I wouldn\u2019t call it a Camus piece per se, Peter Salmon. Don\u2019t want to get the Philosophy crowd\u2019s hopes up\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cThe only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion\u201d might also suit Stokes…<\/p>\n Root back as captain though, does feel like normal service resumed. My favourite detail of the \u2018blazer in the garage\u2019 story is that he had 30 team sheets in the pockets. I had no idea this still happens at international level. That simple joy of tearing off one of the serrated sheets at the back of the scorebook, filling it in (first initial if you can\u2019t remember their name) and handing it to the opposite number – love that captains at this level still get to do it. Presumably they also still have to phone around on the day before the match to check everyone is still available, and to organise lifts? \u201cJamie\u2019s wife\u2019s gone into labour, but James Rew is available and has a van, so can take six…\u201d<\/p>\n Love this.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Nick Wiltsher has my back. I wouldn\u2019t mess with him…<\/p>\n \u201cDear James, I really don\u2019t understand why people feel they need to email you to ask for this. It\u2019s not some esoteric mystery. Here\u2019s how to find it: go to the BBC\u2019s live coverage page. The link is prominently displayed in the sidebar on the left.<\/p>\n For those who inexplicably cannot manage that simple bit of navigations, here it is: Though if they can\u2019t do the first thing, I wonder how on earth they\u2019ll manage clicking on a link\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s you told!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a007.46 EDT<\/p>\n The stumps are being put in place and there\u2019s blue skies above. We\u2019ll have some actual cricket in about ten minutes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n A follower who wishes to remain incognito \u201cI\u2019m following on the sly\u2026\u201d gets in touch. I dare say you won\u2019t be the only one A.Nonymous.<\/p>\n \u201cHi James, looking forward to an excellent Test and following the OBO. Is this the lowest number of combined letters in the England XI surnames since the Flower XI with Bell, Root, Cook, Trott etc (No wonder Pietersen felt left out)? Surely an indication that supremacy is once again due?\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019m going to say yes and leave it at that.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Chris Lintott is in Paris and needs furnishing\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cLooking forward to this as a Somerset fan who has enjoyed the rise of Rew (and we\u2019ll claim the very likeable cricket badger Baker too). Unfortunately I find myself in a shared office in the suburbs of Paris. Anyone got the overseas TMS link?\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>England win the toss and choose to bowl first<\/p>\n If the blazer fits\u2026 Joe Root tosses the coin and Tom Latham calls\u2026 incorrectly. A cheer goes up around the Oval as Root confirms he\u2019s going to unleash his green pace attack.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to make first use of this surface. I think it\u2019s a great opportunity for our attack to get out there and carry on the great work we did last week\u201d he says.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s probably a bit tighter than it was!\u201d he says of the blazer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cTired and blue blazered, fill yourself with\u2026 pound coins\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n There has of course been all sorts written about \u2018the situation\u2019 in the last week. Some good, some bad and some downright ludicrous.<\/p>\n I tried to articulate my own thoughts here<\/a>. By way of Albert Camus. I know. La-di-dah.<\/p>\n double quotation markThere\u2019s a funny bit at the end of the 2022 Ben Stokes documentary Phoenix From The Ashes where host and self-confessed cricket obsessive Sam Mendes quotes Albert Camus to a nonplussed Stokes.<\/p>\n After a confusing but good-natured knockabout on some tatty astroturf on the outfield, both men stand on the balcony of Stokes\u2019 boyhood club, Cockermouth CC, as Mendes paraphrases the Nobel Prize-winning philosopher. Pre-empting the quote by explaining to Stokes that it is one that he himself has found meaningful in the context of a life spent writing and directing film and theatre.<\/p>\n \u2018A man\u2019s work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover those one or two great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.\u2019<\/p>\n Stokes stares at Mendes for a second, and then with perfect timing punctures the lofty atmosphere that has momentarily descended.<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019ve got no idea what you just said,\u2019 he says with a small smile. \u2018Cut that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The sun is out now at the Oval, we\u2019ll have the toss in ten minutes.<\/p>\n Just enough time to read this from Andy Bull, the piece to read on the Stokes farrago for mine.<\/p>\n double quotation markThe problem here isn\u2019t so much that Stokes broke a curfew. It\u2019s that to begin with, England\u2019s management decided to set one. This Cinderella rule was brought in so they could be seen to be doing something after their own bad management during England\u2019s winter tour, in particular their failed attempt to cover up that situation with Brook, and their decision to send the players away for four nights of rest and recuperation in Noosa<\/a>, a place best known for its beach, bars, and craft beer scene. This England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) regime may be the first in history whose biggest failing seems to have been that they could organise a piss-up in a brewery.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cShout out to Sky\u201d emails a B Murdoch emails John Plunkett. \u201cSurely the first time the same player has got the most caps, most runs, most wickets and most catches in the same team. Guess three out of four on a fair few occasions, but maybe never the full house?<\/p>\n Also has one player ever had so many caps compared to the other 10 players?\u201d<\/p>\n Remarkable isn\u2019t it? Fancy another cortex tickler? Joe Root is the only player playing in this Test match who played in the first Test under McCullum back in 2022.<\/p>\n I interviewed Joe before the first Test.<\/a> Pure class.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Another exciting debutant in this match is Sonny Baker. England have been comparing his speed through the air to Mark Wood, I see a certain amount of Darren Gough in him too, not least in his ebullient, almost puppyish enthusiasm for bowling.<\/p>\n Taha did a nice interview with him a while back:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhat does Rehan Ahmed need to do to get in this team?\u201d ask Ian Batch. \u201cI thought he\u2019d be an ideal replacement for Stokes. Instead, we\u2019re playing a specialist batsman at 7? Why pick Bashir at Lord\u2019s but no spinner here when the Oval has been flat this year?<\/p>\n I get it\u2019s been a chaotic mess since Lord\u2019s but Baz\/captain selections to me have been baffling since he took over. Anyway, here\u2019s hoping we get 5 good days of cricket. I\u2019ve optimistically bought a day 3 ticket, madness!\u201d<\/p>\n They definitely like Rehan and I fancy we might see him later in the summer on a drier wicket. Surrey have\u2019t been playing a spinner here at the Oval and despite the weather being set to heat up England want to bolster their batting and feel like they can get overs of spin out of Root and Bethell.<\/p>\n Jordan Cox is a hugely exciting talent to have coming in at seven, he\u2019s in electric knick too.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Hard to know how to feel after the last week but despite everything that has happened there is a real buzz at the Oval, debutants always have that effect and England have three of them. They are also fielding their most inexperienced bowling attack for two decades.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Joe Root is out in the middle with his pads on chatting away to Michael Vaughan and Brendon McCullum. He spoke really well yesterday:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The slightly annoying news is that it has been mizzling here in South London and the covers were all the way across the square when I arrived half an hour ago. The tentatively better news is that it is brightening up and the groundstaff are dragging off the tarpaulins as I type. We should still get the toss in about fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n Scratch that, the man on the tannoy announces that the toss has been delayed until 11am.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a005.16 EDT<\/p>\n Preamble Gus Atkinson flattened… Matt Henry\u2019s middle stump. Lord\u2019s witnesses England\u2019s first Test win since the crapshoot in Melbourne just after Christmas. Is this another reset? Maybe, maybe not. There\u2019s a nagging feeling it is more a re-emphasis of the end. The following day the text comes though, Stokes and Atkinson, drinks taken, curfew broken, punches thrown. Shock, confusion, despair. Both men dropped. Investigation pending. Cricket<\/a> regulator, rugby players, Rex Rooms. Stokes sacked? Stokes retired? Stokes silent. Rob Key talks, Stokes not backed, prohibition mooted. Harry Brook as captain? After Wellington? Not likely. Joe Root digs his old blazer out of the garage. It\u2019s crumpled but still fits. Of course it is Rooty, there\u2019ll always be Rooty, won\u2019t there? McCullum speaks, he\u2019s worried about Ben. We all are. Come on. We can\u2019t lose Stokes, over this? We still might lose Stokes over this. Ollie Robinson scan, Ollie Robinson out. Injured again. Bad luck or bad conditioning. Or both? Kane Williamson retires? Not now Kane! Well played Kane. A World Cup starts. Not that one. Edgbaston, are they\u2026 singing witches? Why not. A win and a Wyatt-Hodge ton. Distraction from the distraction. Then back. Jofra back, Matthew Fisher back. Debuts for Sonny Baker and Jordan Cox. Jamie Smith swaps his gloves for nappies. Debut for James Rew. Five changes, three debutants. New captain, old captain. 1-0. Remember? The Oval. Deep breath. On we go.<\/p>\n Welcome to the fever dream that is English cricket.<\/p>\n Welcome to the Guardian\u2019s OBO. Play begins at 11am.<\/p>\n Wonder what we\u2019ll talk about until then?<\/p>\n
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