Australia v India: third Take a look at, day 5 – stay! – The Guardian
74th over: India 218-3 (Pujara 47, Pant 77) Lyon to Pant, who cuts onerous and will get a thick backside edge into Paine’s shin pad behind the stumps after which to slide. Hope nobody tries to say that one as a drop, that was rocketing. As a distinction, Pant sedately turns away a single to permit Pujara to dam out the remaining. Pujara has 6000 runs in Take a look at cricket after that final over. He’s confronted over 13,000 balls to get them.
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73rd over: India 217-3 (Pujara 47, Pant 76) Quick from Starc and an uppercut from Pujara for 4! Fairly the shot. Simply intuition I feel, Starc angles the ball in at Pujara from across the wicket, and whereas first considering of defending himself Pujara simply opens the face of the bat late and deflects it excessive over the cordon to the boundary. Then shapes to tug however bails out, earlier than nudging away a much less brief ball for a run. Pant pulls a single to comply with. 190 to win.
72nd over: India 211-3 (Pujara 42, Pant 75) Lyon to start out proceedings to Rishabh Pant, with that bat-pad in place on the off facet. Pant skips instantly and drives a run to long-on. Some ODI batting. Pujara comes down as properly and flicks away, and it’s an opportunity however a close to not possible one. Wade at brief leg sidesteps with Pujara as he advances, and the shot is center straight into Wade’s hand after which away to midwicket. He was hit by the ball, there was no likelihood of seeing it, but it surely may have looped up someplace. To comply with up, Pujara scores a run to level.
The goal is beneath 200 now. 199 to win.
71st over: India 209-3 (Pujara 41, Pant 74) Starc will resume after lunch, that is fascinating. Hazlewood and Cummins are the hazard pair after a pause, however are they being saved for the brand new ball? It’s 10 overs away. Starc bumps Pant, and clips him on the facet of the helmet. Not a blow that does harm, it’s angled throughout him and flies away to 3rd man for 2 leg byes. One other brief ball and Pant pulls a run to positive leg. With the right-hander on strike although, Starc is bowling like a busted. Extensive or down the leg facet, straightforward to depart.
Lunch – India 206 for 3, with 62 overs left and 201 to win
What a session of Take a look at cricket: that’s pretty much as good as absolutely anything else I’ve seen. Hazlewood, Cummins, Lyon all bowling rather well. The anticipation in a single day, the dismissal of India’s captain early. However then the masterstroke of sending the crew’s most attacking participant on the market, one thing that won’t have labored 9 occasions out of ten, however that is the ten. Rishabh Pant took them on such as you hardly ever see in Take a look at cricket, hitting three sixes and eight fours, and severely disrupting Australia’s premier spinner.
Australia’s issues have been Starc bowling poorly and Paine’s two dropped catches behind the wicket. He’ll get loads of scrutiny for these, though I’d class them as the kind {that a} keeper doesn’t have management over: they both hit the gloves or they don’t.
The numbers nonetheless say it’s Australia’s Take a look at: the chances are high that the one erratic ball will come alongside, the partnership will finish, and the possible consequence will arrive. However for now, the possibility of one thing much more exceptional occurring survives. Take pleasure in that feeling when you ponder your sandwiches.
seventieth over: India 206-3 (Pujara 41, Pant 73) Final over earlier than lunch, Lyon to Pujara, a slip and twin bat-pads both facet of him, however Pujara isn’t shutting up store when he sees the slightest contact of shortness, stepping again and cracking it by means of cowl level for 4!
Neil Titterington emails. “I can’t be the one Aussie sat right here not-so-secretly prepared India on right here, can I?! After the troubling occasions yesterday, I might genuinely love for them to have the ability to give the final word two fingers to these so-called Australian followers.”
69th over: India 202-3 (Pujara 37, Pant 73) Cummins to Pant, across the wicket, however Pant is enjoying circumspectly in the intervening time, blocking and leaving. Cummins tries an off-break slower ball but it surely’s exterior the stumps and left alone. Pant geese a bouncer slightly than hooking it. Two minutes till lunch might be why. Maiden over.
68th over: India 202-3 (Pujara 37, Pant 73) Lyon will get his shot at Pant, has males within the deep, so Pant fortunately pushes a single by means of cowl level. That makes 100 runs within the session for India. Pujara advances and defends, knocking the ball away with the knee-roll of his pad that raises shouts of “Catch!” No bat there. A lot on the following ball although, as Pujara skips down and whips by means of midwicket for 4. Beautiful shot, up on one foot as he struck it, balletic and stylish. What a participant he’s. It raises the crew 200 and the 100 partnership, batting on day 5 to remain in a Take a look at match.
67th over: India 197-3 (Pujara 33, Pant 72) Pujara has stored the strike to face Cummins, who bowls over the wicket to the right-hander, again of a size, in on the gloves. One bouncer within the over. Pujara doesn’t thoughts any of it. He’s the headland, bowlers are the ocean.
66th over: India 197-3 (Pujara 33, Pant 72) Ha. A cheer of celebration from Paine as he sees Pujara edge the ball, then turns again to see it in Steve Smith’s fingers at slip. Solely drawback was that it bounced first. Lyon bowling across the wicket to Pujara and he nonetheless appears harmful, 4 balls which have the batsman discomfited, having to defuse them greater than play them. Sixth ball Pujara advances and whips a run sq..
sixty fifth over: India 196-3 (Pujara 32, Pant 72) Again to the large weapons. Paine turns to Cummins. Has him come across the wicket at Pant, the identical strategy that Cummins took when he smashed the batsman on the arm within the first innings. Cummins bluffs although, doesn’t bowl brief however bowls a size for the primary few balls. Fifth ball is just too full, and Pant cover-drives him for 4!
Tom Bowtell writes in. “I’m getting distinct Pant-focused flashbacks to this ultimate day. Am hereby predicting an equivalent ultimate consequence right here, with Lyon’s four-hundredth wicket taking the place of Anderson’s 564th because the denouement.”
sixty fourth over: India 192-3 (Pujara 32, Pant 68) Lyon to Pujara, who’s trying to rating a couple of times however can’t beat the sector along with his nudges. Fifth ball there’s a correct enchantment, Lyon offers it the genuflecting spirit fingers and all of the sauce. Umpire Reiffel says nahhhh. Smashed Pujara on the pad but it surely was excessive and spinning down leg facet. Large flip for Lyon although. Maiden over.
63rd over: India 192-3 (Pujara 32, Pant 68) One other boundary for Pant! He loves to start out an over this manner. Starc makes it straightforward by bowling very full exterior his off stump, permitting Pant to drive onerous by means of it to the duvet boundary. It’s a no-ball too! Then he takes a single from the following. You’ll assume the Australians need Pant on strike as a result of he’s the one they’d have extra likelihood to get out, however successfully he’s managed to get off strike first ball of the over and value them 5 runs within the course of.
Pujara although will get transferring slightly, gliding a few runs behind level, then glancing a straight one for a single. Pant again on strike. Smacks a wider ball to level however Pucovski places in one other good diving cease to make it a dot ball. Not the ultimate ball although, too brief and Pant pulls it for 4! No safety out at midwicket. This can be a exceptional innings. The over prices 13 and India want 215.
62nd over: India 179-3 (Pujara 29, Pant 59) Pant pushes an early run to level from Lyon. Australia having to go some Plans B & C now. Two brief legs in for Pujara in opposition to Lyon, who modifications to over the wicket for one ball, then modifications again and goes round. Desires to attract that edge into pad. However Pujara doesn’t misinterpret the road of the ball as soon as on this over. What a participant Pujara is. He’s confronted 117 balls now. They’re right down to 70 overs left, and 222 runs behind, the Richie Benaud.
61st over: India 178-3 (Pujara 29, Pant 58) Starc to Pant, brief, fended away with out alarm for a single to the leg facet. Starc comes across the wicket to Pujara, left-hander to right-armer, an strategy that Starc enjoys when he will get the ball to reverse. We’ve seen him completely demolish a few line-ups doing this, in Galle in opposition to Sri Lanka and in Durban in opposition to South Africa and in Melbourne in opposition to Pakistan, most notably. Can reverse it away from the sting to get nicks, or inwards to hit stumps. It’s not likely swerving for him immediately although. Pujara picks up a few runs clipped behind sq. leg, his spot, regardless of how properly it’s guarded.
sixtieth over: India 175-3 (Pujara 27, Pant 57) Lyon goes to return again and check out once more. Bowling to Pant. And he’s dropped first ball! For as soon as Pant doesn’t assault, he defends from the crease and Lyon rags it from the tough, takes a positive edge up excessive on the surface edge, and I feel that went low straight into Paine’s leg slightly than glove. Lyon has had Pant nicking twice immediately. After a number of balls Pant whacks one by means of level for a run, then Pujara attracts probably the most unrealistic enchantment of the day after a ball comes off the flap of his entrance pad, exterior leg stump, a couple of foot from his bat, however Lyon and Wade need to ask if there was a catch.
59th over: India 174-3 (Pujara 27, Pant 56) Paine turns for selection to Cameron Inexperienced, who bowled a few overs final evening and now will get his third. Very tall, might be fast, comes across the wicket to Pant and will get a good line going, in on the batsman from a large angle. Pant jabs a single ultimately to midwicket, Pujara simply outlasts the ultimate couple of balls.
58th over: India 173-3 (Pujara 27, Pant 55) 4 extra! Starc to Pant, who hops and jabs a cross-bat shot on the bounce to backward level, the place it eludes gully and rolls to the boundary to start out the following over. That had angle throughout the batsman, and the following bouncer doesn’t, however Pant calmly hooks it away for one run. To the right-handed Pujara, Starc retains straying down leg facet.
Fifty! Pant 50 from 64 balls
57th over: India 168-3 (Pujara 27, Pant 50) Lyon to Pant, who comes down the monitor and drives six over cowl! Completely nailed that one, proper out of the center after getting proper to the pitch, first ball of the over. Goodness me!
Second ball? Goes once more! Lengthy on this time, closing the face of the bat to loft it leg-side. It soars away! He follows up by slicing a single for his half-century. That’s 45 from his final 30 balls. And 34 from three overs in opposition to Lyon, in a concerted assault. Pant doesn’t need to let Lyon dominate the final day, and up to now it’s working!
Pujara walks right down to defend, steps again to defend, drives to defend. India want 239 to win. If Pant lasts one other hour like this, possibly the runs required to win gained’t be notional in any case. Chance says the wicket will come…
56th over: India 155-3 (Pujara 27, Pant 37) Little milestones for India, they’ve batted by means of an hour and a half this morning and solely misplaced one wicket. Their reward is to face Mitchell Starc. He begins off down the leg facet, as is his model to start out with, which often means an ideal yorker isn’t distant. Not this time although: 5 balls which are all both leg stump or exterior, then one which’s too vast exterior off.
fifty fifth over: India 155-3 (Pujara 27, Pant 37) Ah, now Lyon has been swung round to the Paddington Finish. So he’ll maybe attempt to bowl in tandem with Labuschagne, and confuse Pant with the differing kinds of spin. And so they’ve modified techniques too, with the bat-pad catcher on the off facet slightly than the leg, to get in Pant’s eyeline and intervene along with his footwork. Pant battles out the over, hesitant to make use of the ft in case a ricochet goes to that shut fielder, both for a catch or a run out. Survives, however appears edgy. That is tense!
54th over: India 155-3 (Pujara 27, Pant 37) Curious that Lyon hasn’t been swung round to the opposite finish or something, it’s only a straight swap of him for Labuschagne. Admittedly he turns the ball a good distance from across the wicket bowling exterior Pant’s off stump, however Pant simply helps it across the nook for a single. For Pujara, the right-hander, the bowler is again over the wicket, with a slip and a bat-pad on the off facet. Pujara isn’t fussed, he simply shuffles away from the road and directs it by means of cowl for one. Pant will get a low full toss however can’t put it away, then drives straight to a deep-set cowl and might’t run, however will get the ultimate ball to long-on for a single.
53rd over: India 152-3 (Pujara 26, Pant 35) Hazlewood to Pant now, first ball of the over, and Pant edges for 4! Massive drive, massive edge, and Australia solely have one slip in at this level. Smith dives as massive as he can, however he can’t be a 3rd slip from first. Hazlewood is the following sufferer of the third umpire’s no-ball digicam from the following supply, then he bangs one in and Pant takes on the brief ball, pulling for 3 to midwicket as Pucovski runs round within the deep to save lots of with a tumble and a heavy touchdown.
India have gotten their overs required beneath 80, their rating previous 150, they usually’re 255 in need of a notional win.
Colum Fordham emails in. “I feel I just like the mindset of the Indian batsmen. Calculated aggression on the a part of Pujara and outright bravado from Pant. At the very least, they’re sending out a constructive message. Lyon’s bowling superbly and I’m positive Starc will come into the motion quickly sufficient. I’d like to get up tomorrow morning and discover that Pujara had carried his bat and braved out the final overs with Jadeja however suspect that may be wishful considering. Actually appreciated the article by Bharat Sundaresan. Siraj is a courageous and gifted younger cricketer.”
52nd over: India 144-3 (Pujara 26, Pant 28) That is fascinating, Labuschagne is getting a bowl. His part-time leg breaks. Paine maybe hoping to tempt Pant into much more indiscretions. They’ve bought sufficient within the financial institution to purchase him out. However Pant squeezes out a single first ball and will get off strike, and Pujara takes the remainder of the over. The primary ball can be retrospectively dominated a no-ball for overstepping, and the seventh of the over prices Labuschagne as he bowls a low full toss. Even Pujara isn’t going to pat that again, he’s been decisive immediately when he has determined to assault. So he makes use of his ft and drives it crisply alongside the bottom although long-on for 4. Stylish.
51st over: India 138-3 (Pujara 22, Pant 27) Hazlewood retains attacking the stumps and the physique, and Pujara does squeeze a ball away to not removed from Labuschagne at brief leg. As soon as once more that fieldsman is probably the most enthusiastic about all the things, interesting in a raucous solo after Pujara presses ahead to defend and misses the ball by about six inches. However when the ball is straight Pujara defends immaculately, again foot after which entrance. He has been so spectacular in the previous couple of overs in opposition to some top-drawer stuff. He ends one other maiden by squeezing a ball off the within portion behind sq., the place Warner dives to discipline.
fiftieth over: India 138-3 (Pujara 22, Pant 27) There are two massive footmarks creating tough patches exterior Pant’s off stump, and Lyon is attempting to land the ball in them. He drops brief although, and Pant smacks him by means of level for 4. That’s a good shot, out of the center. Not like the following one, which is sliced down the bottom for 4 extra. He costs it and goes for the long-on shot once more, however will get an enormous forefront. He has the fortune that it will get a long way slightly than going straight up, and that it slices lifeless straight slightly than carrying to lengthy off, who’s again with mid on as much as tempt these pictures. The wicket’s within the mail if he retains pushing this envelope. He’s taken 21 from Lyon’s final two overs.
forty ninth over: India 130-3 (Pujara 22, Pant 19) One other run to start out the following over, Pant dropping one to cowl and Pujara calls him by means of, Pant a second slower to get transferring and that almost prices him because the throw is available in on the non-striker’s finish with the batsman at full stretch. It misses. Slip, gully, level, cowl, mid on, ahead sq., brief leg, backward sq., lengthy leg for Pujara. He goes beneath a bouncer, then leaves one angling in at off stump however lacking, and performs the one angling in that was on line. Nice judgement from Che. He’s confronted 75 balls up to now.
forty eighth over: India 129-3 (Pujara 22, Pant 18) Lyon to Pant, and Pujara would like to get the left-hander off strike I reckon. Pant performs a nasty shot, a forcing off-side drive that he misses because the ball turns previous the sting. Didn’t flip as a lot as others, and thus he almost nicks it. Pujara has a phrase, possibly saying play to leg. So Pant does precisely that: rocks again to tug two runs away by means of midwicket, then advances to chip 4 runs over mid-on, then advances to clout six extra over lengthy on! Pant actually going for it – how lengthy is that this strategy sustainable? Loads of runs for Australia to play with. Sixth ball of the over, Pant goes again to the off facet, driving by means of cowl and slightly airily there as properly, for one more run. 13 off the over.
84 overs left, and 277 runs the deficit.
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forty seventh over: India 116-3 (Pujara 22, Pant 5) Hazlewood to Pujara, and El Che does what El Che does greatest: he exists. Immovable. Has to play each ball of the over bar the bouncer.
forty sixth over: India 116-3 (Pujara 22, Pant 5) Lyon will bowl all day. Pujara backs away and cuts positive of the gully fieldsman, who has to run round to the ball and thus offers them time for a fast single. Pant sees out the following 4 balls.
Meghan Purvis emails in. “Thanks for the hyperlink to Bharat Sundaresan’s article; it was an perception into one thing lots of us have seen however not skilled immediately. I love Siraj’s braveness, however am so disheartened by the necessity for it. To lean into the stereotype of Individuals making all the things about themselves – however justified on this occasion, I feel – we’ve simply illustrated for the world what occurs whenever you placate racism; it’s a gallows on the coronary heart of your nation.”
forty fifth over: India 115-3 (Pujara 21, Pant 5) Hazlewood on for Cummins, and the Australians are fielding rather well immediately. Hazlewood himself had an important cease at mid-off a number of overs in the past. This time Inexperienced dives at gully to save lots of one other steer from Pant, then Wade at cowl dives throughout to seize a ball one-handed on the bounce. Their efforts hold Pant on strike for your entire over, which their bowler would completely love. A maiden.
forty fourth over: India 115-3 (Pujara 21, Pant 5) Lyon sends down a maiden to Pujara, a lot of loop, a lot of flip, spinning it into the pad, and thinks about reviewing a not-out lbw hitting very vast of the stumps when Pujara isn’t enjoying a shot. No evaluation. The projection says it might need clipped the surface of off stump. It’ll be a courageous umpire to place up the finger for a kind of. However Lyon is getting critical flip.
forty third over: India 115-3 (Pujara 21, Pant 5) Cummins to Pant, however not for lengthy because the batsman clips a run to sq. leg. Pujara produces one other straight drive and beats mid-off to select up three. The deficit is 292.
forty second over: India 111-3 (Pujara 18, Pant 4) Lyon to Pant, who forces sq. on the off facet. Desires a run however he’s hit it straight to Cummins and will get despatched again. He’s enjoying on the again foot to Lyon so much, getting again to defend off the pitch. Taking part in very straight. Finally goes for a minimize shot from the final ball and will get it simply backward of level, making time to get by means of for a pointy run.
forty first over: India 110-3 (Pujara 18, Pant 3) Cummins bowling to Pujara, who will get an edge into his pad that falls down. A number of shut calls already. Pujara sees out the maiden, getting to depart a number of exterior the off stump, as is his desire. One other over down, solely 91 to go.
fortieth over: India 110-3 (Pujara 18, Pant 3) Lyon to Pant, the left-hander, and a catch is missed behind the stumps. Pant pushes onerous on the entrance foot, the ball spins away and takes a thick edge. It flies quick at Paine and hits the surface of his left glove earlier than he has time to react, and bounces down slightly than as much as Smith at slip. Pant very fastidiously blocks out a maiden over, enjoying from the crease.
thirty ninth over: India 110-3 (Pujara 18, Pant 3) Cummins to Pant, who tries that steer once more however this time a diving cease from Inexperienced at gully denies him a run. He blocks a pair, geese a bouncer, then takes on the brief ball, badly. Performs slightly half-pull shot, simply locations the bat there, will get the toe finish, and it flies like a one-winged fowl out to sq. leg. The person within the deep can’t get far sufficient in from the boundary in time to catch it. A lucky run outcomes.
India path by 297.
thirty eighth over: India 109-3 (Pujara 18, Pant 2) Pujara utilizing his ft so much in opposition to Lyon. Comes down the monitor a few occasions to defend, then Lyon begins zinging the ball by means of sooner and Pujara goes again a few occasions, earlier than shuffling ahead to kick a pair away properly exterior the off stump. Lyon appears an actual handful already, he was at Pujara each ball of that over with males across the again.
thirty seventh over: India 109-3 (Pujara 18, Pant 2) Beautiful from Cheteshwar Pujara! Steps ahead to Cummins and silkily hits the straight drive down the bottom for 4. Simply previous the bowler. Now that’s a shot. Glides a run to backward level, then Pant runs the ball away to 3rd man for his first two runs. India’s deficit comes beneath 300.
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thirty sixth over: India 102-3 (Pujara 13, Pant 0) The over began properly for India, with Pujara advancing a few occasions to Lyon and driving him by means of midwicket for 3. That raised the crew ton. Then Rahane falls. And in an fascinating transfer, Rishabh Pant has been promoted within the order. Maybe India need to maintain again Vihari as a extra defensive possibility. Maybe they need to give him a greater likelihood to get into the sport later given he’s in need of runs. Maybe Pant’s painkillers are going to put on off and it’s higher to make use of him early within the day. Anyway, right here he’s. An attacking participant. Watch this house.
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WICKET! Rahane c Wade b Lyon 4, India 102-3
The early wicket falls! All of India’s in a single day hopes sag together with it, because the stand-in captain goes. Nathan ‘Nathan’ Lyon in his first over the day, at all times with the concept the spinner ought to take wickets on day 5, and after a wicketless match up to now he will get profession sufferer 395 ultimately. Fairly simple, he bowls an off-break with a lot of loop, Rahane doesn’t time his ahead defensive press, he’s too early on it and it takes a thick inside edge that goes on to brief leg, travelling quick however Wade holds it.
thirty fifth over: India 99-2 (Pujara 10, Rahane 4) Cummins to start out the day, with a really leg-side discipline for Pujara. Midwicket, ahead sq. leg, brief leg, leg gully, lengthy leg. Yeesh. Additionally a slip and a gully on the lookout for catches on the off facet. Pujara blocks, blocks, after which one retains low! Already. He tries to duck a brief ball and it doesn’t rise up. It hits his forearm guard, and a little bit of his arm as properly, and skews away. That’s not what a batsman desires to see third ball of the day. Fifth ball he squirts away by means of sq. leg, gasps from the fielders on the hope that may go at hand.
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The opposite piece of context round this match, and a most deflating one, is the abuse dished out to among the Indian gamers by a number of members of the group. This was reported on each day two and day three, with the very junior participant Mohammed Siraj stopping the match to deliver it to the eye of umpires and officers. For a participant in his second match it was a exceptional show of fortitude to try this, and it’s desperately unhappy that he needed to do it. Predictably he’s already being traduced and undermined by some folks in Australia who would like to imagine that he invented the scenario.
To anybody who wish to minimise it, or to anybody who wish to perceive it higher, one of the best factor I can do is level you to a unprecedented article written in a single day by my cricket colleague Bharat Sundaresan, who moved to Australia a few years in the past to report on the sport right here.
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Preamble
Geoff Lemon
Hi there cricket buddies. We’re able to do all of it from Sydney once more, and for one ultimate time. After this the roadshow will transfer to Brisbane. If Australia win immediately it would imply a 2-1 lead with India nonetheless capable of retain the trophy by successful the fourth and ultimate match. If India can cling on for a draw immediately, it is going to be 1-1 with each a collection win and a trophy to play for.
It’s going to be powerful work. India are 98 for two, a rating that’s nonetheless 309 runs in need of a really theoretical goal. Extra importantly their two opening batsmen are gone and the remainder of the crew must bat three periods to attract. The remainder of the crew is brief one and a half batsmen, too, as a result of Ravindra Jadeja and Rishabh Pant have been each injured whereas batting within the first innings. Pant will bat however can be hampered by a really sore elbow, Jadeja gained’t bat in any respect with a badly dislocated thumb (except maybe there’s a Graeme Smith type of scenario with a number of overs left at 9 wickets down).
In order that implies that the job lies with Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane, the pair that was not out in a single day. They’re India’s most senior batsmen and those with the power to bat lengthy. If they’ll achieve this, they’ll create an opportunity. If one among them falls early, it’s all however over. The runs are out of the equation as a result of the pitch has had variable bounce and has been onerous to attain shortly on all through the match. Out of the blue dialling up 100 runs a session on the fifth day isn’t going to occur. Survival can be onerous with some deliveries conserving low or bouncing increased than anticipated.
And there’s that knack of Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood to search out wickets once they want them, plus the fondness of Mitchell Stac and Nathan Lyon for fifth days. That’s the competition forward of us.
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