Kranti Goud picked up 3 for 20 to continue her rapid rise with India’s ODI side

Shashank Kishore05-Oct-20254:12

Goud, Deepti, Ghosh make it two from two for India

Kranti Goud, 22, was informed of her India debut at the R Premadasa Stadium in May 2025. She had largely been picked as an apprentice, with India waiting on two senior players – Renuka Singh and Pooja Vastrakar, both injured and in rehab.It was an unremarkable debut, for figures of 5-0-22-0. But among the many things she did right was hitting Chamari Athapaththu, a ferocious puller of the cricket ball, on her ribs. That tiny moment, lost amid Smriti Mandhana’s century and Sneh Rana’s four-for, encouraged India’s selectors to take a punt on her for the England tour.When she picked up a six-for in Durham, hooping the ball and leaving England’s top order gasping en route to an impressive series victory, it was fairly evident Goud had sealed her World Cup spot, irrespective of whether the injured senior pacers returned. Renuka has, Vastrakar hasn’t, but Goud has made herself undroppable after just two outings.Related

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A week after she opened the 2025 World Cup with 1 for 41 in India’s win over Sri Lanka, Goud stung Pakistan’s top order in a fiery new-ball spell. She finished with 3 for 20 in India’s 88-run win in Colombo, one that her neighbourhood watched on a giant LED screen they’d installed back in Ghuwara, a town in rural Madhya Pradesh.”The talk is about focusing on line and length only,” Goud said after winning the Player-of-the-Match award. “I haven’t thought of doing much extra. Variations like bouncer or slower balls, those depend on the situation. The coaches told me to pull my lengths back a little based on the conditions and surface, that’s what I did.”It wasn’t merely Goud listening to her coaches that did the trick. She also got the captain to give her the fields she wanted most times. In the 12th over, with the ball losing some of its shine, Harmanpreet Kaur pulled out Deepti Sharma from the slips, only for Goud to wheel her back to where she’d been.The result? Aliya Riyaz was defeated by late movement to get a healthy edge through to Deepti at second slip. A jubilant Goud immediately turned to her captain, who ran towards her to acknowledge her contribution.”The ball was swinging early on, I couldn’t understand what was happening,” Goud said with a chuckle when asked about her first spell. “One ball came in a long way. Then when the ball was old, Harman wanted to take the slip off, but I said, ‘no didi, let’s keep the slip for this over.'”I had that feeling from within that I could get a wicket, and I got it off the first ball. They found it tough to play our pacers. Because the ball was moving in and out, that’s why I had a lengthy first spell.”Goud bowled six unchanged overs with the new ball. The other small contribution she made to India’s win was her crucial lower-order runs with Richa Ghosh. Coming in with India 226 for 8, the ninth-wicket pair added 21 to haul India to 247.Goud’s contribution was 8 off 4 balls, including two fours: a cover drive off her first ball, against left-arm spinner Sadia Iqbal, and then a boundary off Diana Baig when she got inside the line to help a short delivery past short fine leg.”Richa told me, if there’s a ball to be hit, go for it. But if you’re not able to, just give me a single,” Goud said. “Because only a few overs were left, we needed to score as many as we could. First ball itself was hittable, so I hit a four. Then she told me, play like this only. The second [boundary] was a short ball, so I went for it. Look forward to playing well like this.”Goud would perhaps acknowledge tougher tests await, but the stage on Sunday wasn’t to be scoffed at, even if India did come in with a 11-0 record over Pakistan in women’s ODIs. With the men’s Asia Cup having been played in an environment far from the bonhomie the teams have shown in the past, the focus was on the women’s game to see if some of the hostilities would spill over. It didn’t, even though the teams didn’t shake hands before or after the match.But the off-field noise was far from Goud’s mind. “I wasn’t thinking of India-Pakistan or other things,” she said. “My duty is to bowl, and I was doing just that.”

The following article is a special report; all information presented, unless otherwise stated, has been gleaned from Football FanCast sources. 

Tottenham Hotspur were not willing to fork out over £30m plus wages to sign AC Milan striker Krzysztof Piatek in the January transfer window, sources have confirmed to Football FanCast, and he is now close to moving to Hertha Berlin instead.

There was confidence at the club earlier this week that Milan would “cave” as Tottenham attempted to bring in a striker in this transfer window.

The stance of the Italian club has always been that they would rather sell Piatek than loan him out, which is what Spurs were proposing.

There was a feeling, though, that with the clock ticking down in the window, Milan would be convinced to soften that stance and acquiesce to Spurs’ offer.

Hertha, though, have made a bid worth £22.8m, per Sky Sports News, plus bonuses, that Spurs sources believe will take the total cost of the deal to over £30m – Milan’s initial asking price.

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They are nearing an agreement and there is no intention from Spurs to try to scupper the deal.

There was always a belief at the Premier League club that they would need to see Piatek play for them before committing to a transfer fee and that is why negotiations took so long to reach any kind of conclusion; chairman Daniel Levy did not want there to be an obligation to buy in any deal, just an option.

Piatek, of course, has struggled for form this season, scoring just five goals in all competitions.

With the window reaching its conclusion, there is now an acceptance at Spurs that they may not be able to sign a striker before the deadline.

There is interest in Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud but any deal has been described by one source as “fraught with danger”.

Spurs have explored the feasibility of a deal but there is a fear that talks could drag and, in focusing on the Frenchman, they could be left empty-handed.

Meanwhile, one man is key to the club’s clash with Manchester City!

The new season at Manchester City has started with a huge bang, just two games into the new campaign the Citizens have already laid down a huge marker ahead of the rest of the season.

Sunday’s demolition of Chelsea has put City favourites with the bookies to regain the Premier League title, after what can only be described as the perfect start to the season.

Three consecutive wins, eight goals and three clean sheets, the confidence will be high at City as they look to build on an albeit early five point lead over what is thought to be the main rivals Chelsea for the title.

However, last Sunday against Chelsea, although the game was tight for large periods, the gulf in the sides did indeed become apparent at the ease City were creating chances that Sergio Aguero squandered in the first half and, on a better day, he could of had four by half time.

Despite this, City new boy Raheem Sterling believes that this season that the title race is going to be very tight. He said: “Everyone has strengthened their squads and the Premier League is always hard to second guess.”

And his general feeling was that is was going to be tight, and even go down to the wire. Of course at the moment it’S only early days, and it is hard to make a definitive call one way or another as there is so much that could go right or wrong, depending on whose side you are on.

But as a player he would of course say something like that. It is diplomatic and the safe thing to say. He isn’t going to come out and say that his side are going to walk the Premier League this season, and although it may be a diplomatic thing for Sterling to say, there is at least an element of truth in what he has said.

There is a strong case to say that it will be tighter this season than it was last time out, where Chelsea comfortably won the title and weren’t really challenged after Christmas as City fell away soon after the new year.

You wouldn’t say Chelsea have strengthened their first team a great deal, whereas City and United have while Arsenal also have to a lesser extent, and this will only help close that gap and make it a whole lot tighter this season.

I wouldn’t want to write Chelsea off after a couple of bad performances, but I wouldn’t say that they are the heavy pre-season favourites in my book, it is going to be tight between Chelsea, United and City, and whoever gets the title out of those three is really anyone’s guess at this stage.

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Wayne Rooney seemingly slipped back into top form with an impressive hat trick against Club Brugge last week, but will football fans ever know quite what to make about the England captain?

He ranks among the top England players of all time and will shortly become the Three Lions’ all-time record goalscorer, as a couple of efforts against San Marino are more than likely. He also ranks among the top three goal scorers in Premier League history.

Only two men and 17 goals stand in the way of him becoming Man Utd’s all time record goalscorer, too. His record well and truly speaks for itself, he’s an outstanding player and goalscorer, yet he is much-maligned and isn’t really appreciated by fans.

Something which highlighted perhaps how poorly Rooney was playing for United recently was Louis van Gaal’s openness to playing Maraoune Fellaini as a striker against Club Brugge. Many wanted the Dutchman to try it out, too.

But that was how bad things had got, he was in woefully poor form and it was horrible to watch Rooney at times. Everything he had long been so good at deserted him and he looked a very average player.

Rooney does indeed create the debate as to whether he is the ‘worst good player’ around or whether we are watching the ‘best bad one’. Perhaps given his overall career record he should be considered as a world class player, but not a legendary one.

Rooney has, throughout his career, produced goals on occasion like those netted against Club Brugge, which is, perhaps, the most frustrating thing.

The first was a delightful dinked finish – certainly not the sort associated with a man desperate for a goal after going over six hours of football without one. But then again hasn’t that always been the way with Rooney? Form comes and goes but as they say class is permanent and Rooney has that. Van Gaal has even said the England man has the mentality to keep on coming back.

The second goal was eased home after a perfectly placed ball from Ander Herrera, the sort of service that he had been crying out for. And his three-goal haul was shortly rounded off with another effort – an intelligent run allowed Juan Mata to slip Rooney in before he tucked the ball home. Suddenly in a flash Rooney was back again.

All of the chances were of course presented to Rooney, yet he still had to tuck them away and Javier Hernandez’s late cameo showed that it isn’t as easy as it always looks – the Mexican missed a sitter and a penalty.

However no matter what Rooney does it does seem inevitable that when he calls it a day not everyone will be convinced about his talents.

A better striker will come along one day, however it hasn’t happened yet despite the challenges from the likes of Radamel Falcao and even Robin van Persie.

That is just why Rooney is so good. He will always keep on doing what he does best, and that is giving is all and scoring goals.

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Manchester United returned to the top of the Premier League this afternoon as they beat newly promoted Watford 2-1 at Vicarage Road.The Red Devils took the lead after just 11 minutes through Memphis Depay, who was handed his first start since October, as the Netherlands international volleyed in a Ander Herrara cross past Gomes.Louis van Gaal was forced to tweak his formation to 3-5-2 mid-way through the first half as Herrera limped off and was replaced by Marcos Rojo. After that United struggled to create much as Watford grew in to the game and threatened on a number of occasions in the second half, but David De Gea produced a string of world class saves to keep United in front.But in an eventful final five minutes, Watford drew level through a Troy Deeney penalty after Rojo tripped Ighalo in the box before Bastian Schweinsteiger won it for the visitors in the 90th minute with a close range finish that may go down as a Deeney own goal.Here are three things we learned from that throughly exciting contest this afternoon…

Depay is the real deal…

Injuries to Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial saw Memphis Depay handed his first start for Manchester United since October, with everyone labelling this afternoon’s game as his big chance to prove he can be play an important role for the club.

And it took him 11 minutes to open the scoring as he latched on to an Ander Herrera cross to volley in from close range. The Netherlands international had a solid game and certainly proved he’s got what it takes to be a major part of Louis van Gaal’s side this term.

Man United’s solid defence…

Before Troy Deeney smashed in the equaliser from the penalty spot, Man United had gone over ten hours without conceding a goal.

They mostly have David De Gea to thank for that, having pulled off a string of world class saves through the game and particularly in the second half when Watford were going all out for an equaliser.

The return of 3-5-2…

…and the fans are fuming about it. Ander Herrera limped off in the first half and instead of sticking with the formation that was proving to hot for Watford to handle, Louis van Gaal chose to stick Marcos Rojo on and revert to 3-5-2.

After that United rarely looked like scoring again and allowed Watford more of the possession. If it wasn’t for David De Gea between the sticks, Watford would’ve gone on to win the game as a result.

Luckily for United, Bastian Schweinsteiger popped up at the death to win it for Louis van Gaal’s side.

Arsenal returned to the top of the Premier League with a straight forward 2-0 victory over rock bottom Aston Villa this afternoon.

The Gunners took control early on as Olivier Giroud slotted home his 50th Premier League goal for the club after Alan Hutton bundled over Theo Walcott in the box after just eight minutes.

And then an impressive through ball by Theo Walcott split open the Villa defence in the 38th minute, which led to Mesut Ozil squaring the ball to Aaron Ramsey to pass in to an empty net.

Villa had a bit of a revival in the second half and couldn’t found themselves a way back in the game on a number of occasions, but their lack of a clinical finisher in front of goal ultimately summed up why they’re bottom of the league with just six points from 16 games.

Arsenal, though, will truly believe their capable of winning the title this season. With Chelsea completely out of the race already and both Manchester clubs prone to dropping points – Man United did so against Bournemouth yesterday – the Gunners could now be seen as the favourites.

So here are three things we learned from Arsenal’s impressive victory over Villa today…

Arsenal can win the league…

Not a key learning from today, but a trip to a struggling Aston Villa did provide something of a banana skin for Arsenal today.

Having played in the Champions League in mid-week and with one eye on their game with Manchester City next week, you could’ve forgiven the Gunners for perhaps being a bit off the boil today. But instead they got the job done professionally and returned to the top of the league, albeit for what could be a short 24 hour period.

And if they can follow this up with victory over City next week, then perhaps it’ll be time to crown Arsene Wenger’s men as title favourites…

Olivier Giroud is underrated…

Giroud’s eighth minute penalty was his 50th Premier League goal for the Gunners, and it continued a superb run of form for the France international.

With Alexis Sanchez out injured, all eyes have been on Giroud as Arsenal’s most important source of goals and with so much criticism thrown his way over the years, he has instead silenced his critics this season.

He may be the most unappreciated striker in the league, but he’s also the most underrated.

Mesut Ozil was worth every penny…

But if you already knew that, didn’t you?

Before the game David Moyes claimed “the jury is still out” on the German playmaker. Half an hour later Ozil registered yet another assist to take his season tally to 12 in the Premier League, as he squared an easy ball to Aaron Ramsey to slot in to an empty net.

Over the years many people have claimed the £42m Wenger paid for Ozil was a bit excessive. But this season Ozil has proven those critics wrong and is becoming more and more crucial to Arsenal’s title dreams as each week passes by.

Following back-to-back wins against Manchester City and Swansea followed by the 6-1 thumping of Southampton in the League Cup, December was considered to be the month in which Jurgen Klopp’s side would kick on among Liverpool’s supporter base.

Although Reds fans’ eternal optimism is often mocked, there was bulk to these claims, too, as their German coach had settled and seemed to have remedied the problems of the Brendan Rodgers era.

Alas, the talk of a top four finish and even a title charge have been ruthlessly questioned in the weeks since the start of the festive month, with a meagre haul of one point from games against Newcastle, West Brom and Watford concerning to say the least.

The Magpies loss looked like one of those days, but a point at home to the Baggies, rescued by an injury time deflected Divock Origi goal, before the frankly embarrassing 3-0 loss at Vicarage Road has proven that it was not merely a blip in the North East and there are deep-rooted issues.

Luckily for the charismatic Klopp the January transfer window is just over a week away now, and with reports claiming that he will have money to spend, he will be able to address some of his major problems.

But what are they? Here are the FIVE we think are the most pressing at Anfield…

The goalkeeper situation…

Many Liverpool fans got their wish against Watford when the starting XI was released an hour before kick-off as Simon Mignolet dipped out wit a slight hamstring injury allowing Adam Bogdan in. But, this joy lasted all of two minutes when the Hungarian pulled off a clanger that would make even his senior team-mate blush as he failed to catch a tame corner before losing out to Nathan Ake in a dramatic scramble. Replays showed that the Watford defender did actually kick the ball from Bogdan’s grip, but the mere fact he couldn’t deal with the sort of a ball a five-year old would calmly catch in their back garden was unforgivable.

As alluded to before, the goalkeeping situation has been a problem at Liverpool for a while now, and even though Klopp himself has publicaly backed Mignolet, the fact that his error against West Brom recently was his eighth in three seasons that led directly to a goal being conceded (the most of any Premier League goalkeeper in the same period) is sure to be weighing on the German’s mind. Naturally, there have been links between the ex-Dortmund boss and moves for a host of Bundesliga-based goalkeepers, with Bernd Leno and Timo Horn the standout names, but it remains to be seen if he’ll react. The fans certainly hope he will, though!

Getting something from the big summer signings

One of the more worrying afternoons of the Klopp reign came at Newcastle as the Reds slipped to a 2-0 loss. However, it was not so much the result – the Magpies had one shot on target over 90 minutes yet managed to claim victory by two clear goals – but rather the relationship between Firmino and Benteke that presented pressing questions. The pair – who cost around £60m altogether over the summer – were deployed as the two main attacking threats in the North East, yet they managed just ONE completed pass between themselves through the game and looked worrying out of sync.

Both Benteke and Firmino have looked good on other occasions, but it’s a source of concern that the two players’ games look poles apart, while both have struggled, on the whole, to look at home in the red shirt. Klopp cannot simply cast aside such huge investments and part of his appeal to Fenway Sports Group (Liverpool’s American owners) was his ability to get the best from players at his disposal. Although fans want attacking additions in the transfer market, the 48-year-old may have to resist any urges he has to do so and instead spend time working with the double act in training. After all, Benteke is a proven goalscorer and Firmino was one of the most talented attacking midfielders in the Bundesliga.

Stick or twist with Martin Skrtel

Liverpool have been pretty dreadful at the back for a few years now and a common denominator through this period has been their Slovakian centre-back. The weird thing with Skrtel though is the fact that he’s okay, on the whole. The 31-year-old rarely makes serious errors and doesn’t look untidy on the ball, yet the fact that he’s been around through the woeful defensive era of Brendan Rodgers and has contributed to shock defeats with Klopp in charge has to be looked at. Mamadou Sakho seems to be a player the now Anfield gaffer likes, so getting someone in to compliment the Frenchman could be wise in the long run, with Dejan Lovren still a worry and Kolo Toure now 34.

Neven Subotic is a defender Klopp has worked with and is thought to be available for a bargain fee this January after making only a handful of league appearances at Dortmund since his former manager departed. The Serbian is by no means a guaranteed source of stability, but with Skrtel either complacent or simply not good enough it could be a gamble worth taking.

Scoring goals

The Watford match presented Klopp’s first real error in terms of team selection. While the goalkeeper and the centre-backs will foot the majority of the blame, the way in which the German set out his attacking options was bizarre, with the technical trio of Adam Lallana, Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino trusted to breach the Hornets’ backline. The two Brazilians and their English partner in crime worked wonders at both Chelsea and Manchester City in memorable wins, yet against a Watford side that were never going to come out look to dominate possession on a dreadful Vicarage Road pitch (the sheer number of poor touches and bobbles was astounding) perhaps the physical threat of Christian Benteke would have offered a tailor-made threat. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but many were worried prior to kick-off that there may not be a focal point, which proved to be true, and at least having a target to play for knockdowns from would have given something to worry the Watford defence.

With Daniel Sturridge waiting in the wings Klopp has one of the best strikers in the club’s history in terms of goals-per-game record to utilise but his horrendous injury record – Sunday marked the moment he’d officially missed more games than he’s played for the club since his 2013 arrival – is a constant headache. Perhaps the route forward is to go for a 4-4-2 formation, as he did in the 6-1 League Cup win at Southampton, or perhaps even pay big to get in a striker next month.

Building a side capable of coping with four fights

Liverpool have won just twice this season on weekends following a midweek match. The 3-1 at Chelsea and a narrow 1-0 at Swansea are the only occasions that Klopp’s side have been able to bounce back in a short space of time, and both of these ties had extenuating circumstances – the win at Stamford Bridge followed a League Cup match against Bournemouth in which a fringe XI was used and Swansea travelled to Anfield at the height of the woeful Garry Monk run.

It’s been tough for the German so far, who has been forced to attempt to implement his ideas and style without a substantial amount of time on the training ground, but there are two potential ways to get around this:

1 – Bring in one or two of the players he used so successfully at Dortmund.

2 – Add numbers to his ranks to allow for greater rotation.

As things stand, Liverpool are still battling in the Premier League, are in the last-32 of the Europa League, are set for a two-legged League Cup semi-final clash with Stoke and will be in FA Cup action come January. Fixture congestion will not ease any time soon.

In a clash of two of the Premier League’s emerging ‘middle class’ sides, Crystal Palace and Stoke City come into this game with quite a bit of hope.Palace have finally signed themselves a striker, even if it is Emmanuel Adebayor, who hasn’t played top class football for quite some time. Yet that just means he has some sort of a point to prove. Everyone knows his quality and it’s up to him to show it. Perhaps this will be the game where we see it.Stoke City, on the other hand, will be hurting from another cup game they had to play in midweek. They lost to Liverpool in the Capital One Cup semi-final but only on penalties. Mark Hughes will surely be happy with how his team came back from the first-leg home defeat to beat Liverpool 1-0 on the night, their first victory at Anfield since 1959, even if it wasn’t enough to progress.The FA Cup represents another bite of the cherry for Stoke this season, and a chance to go one better than they did in 2011 when they reached the final, only to lose to Manchester City.Both these sides are sitting comfortably in the Premier League, and although both sides will be looking upwards in the hope of making a European place this season, perhaps the FA Cup should be the main priority – after all, both sides have shown their ability to beat the big teams this season. Will Stoke be up for this one after such a heartbreaking defeat in midweek?Here are the teams:

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Premier League games just keep on coming, don’t they?! After a midweek treat, the division we all love is back for a traditional weekend of action, and that gives fans the chance to earn a discounted pizza…

Yep, you heard us right, if the team YOU back scores two or more goals, Papa Johns will give you 50% off a pizza of your choice. All you have to do is sign up and wait for the ball to hit the back of the net a couple of times, which will see a tasty, discounted pizza hit your table.

We know not every team will be banging in the goals, so we here at FootballFanCast have gone to the trouble (we know, we’re lovely) of assessing who is likely to ease your gurgling belly this midweek…

Chelsea

The Blues are a far cry from being the side that looked so flaky during the opening months of the campaign and are now even in the mix for European qualification! This weekend they host Stoke, and with three wins from their last three league outings and 13 two or more goal hauls this term, Guus Hiddink’s men are worth backing.

Manchester City

It’s always worth backing any side that comes up against the pretty much relegated Aston Villa, so with Manchester at hosting Remi Garde’s men, it’s well worth a go this Saturday! Granted, the Citizens haven’t netted more than two goals in each of their last four Premier League outings, but with the Villans having conceded two or more a division-high 16 times, the omens look good for Manuel Pellegrini.

Liverpool

Fresh from sticking three past Manchester City on Wednesday night, Liverpool travel to Crystal Palace. Traditionally Selhurst Park has not been a happy hunting ground for the Reds, but with the Eagles having not won in their last 11 games and shipped 21 goals in that time, things could change on Saturday.

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If Aston Villa lose against Bournemouth this Saturday and Norwich collect a point at Crystal Palace, relegation will finally be confirmed for the Midlands side. Changes have started to happen at B6 firstly at boardroom level and then the hapless Remi Garde was put out of his misery. Whoever replaces the Frenchman will have to quickly assess a squad of players who have only amassed 16 premier league points so far, and then consider who they wish to keep for the upcoming season in the championship. Let’s consider their options as we look through the squad and try and identify who may need to be replaced.

Goalkeeper

Brad Guzan, voted supporter’s player of the season at the end of Paul Lamberts first season the USA international has endured a torrid time from the terraces of the Holte End. A lack of clean sheets and the infamous chewing gum incident at Wycombe mean that a parting of the ways seems inevitable.

Defence

Former Premier league winning duo Micah Richards and Joelon Lescott have looked far from their best in a defence which has conceded 62 goals.  Their performances on Twitter have grabbed more attention then anything done on the pitch and like Guzan it appears that there is no way back for the former Manchester City player’s.

Midfield

Summer recruit Idrissa Gana Gueye has been one of the few positive signings that Villa have made. The Ghana international represents a rare chance for the club to reclaim some of the 9 million pound that was spent on him. Other players such as Carles Gill and Carols Sanchez could be sold to clubs in Spain as it’s questionable if their respective qualities are suited to the demands of England’s second tier.

Attack

Gabriel Agbonlahor is Villas current longest serving player and the club’s premier league record goalscorer. However, allegations of numerous falling outs with managers and coaches and the recent incident in Dubai has led to supporters questioning the influence of Agbonlahor in a pretty toxic dressing room. If fit and focused the local lad could have a real impact in the championship, although like some of the previous players mentioned it could suit all parties if he is moved on.

Who goes or who stays is up for debate, what can’t be questioned is that Villas third manager in this calendar year faces a massive rebuilding job.

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