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This is a list of all English national cricket captains, comprising all of the men, boys and women who have captained an English national cricket team at official international level. England played in the first Test match in 1877 and have played more Test matches, and had more captains, than any other team. In the 19th century, the captains for overseas tours were chosen by the promoters, with James Lillywhite, Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury being the main professional promoters. However, some amateur tours went abroad under Lord Harris and Lord Hawke. Home captains were selected by the home ground authority, who often went for their local favourites.

For around sixty years, from 1902/3, the Marylebone Cricket Club took over the organisation of all overseas tours, with the games played being technically by the "MCC" rather than "England". They brought with them the tradition of having amateur, rather than professional, captains, and after Shrewsbury there wasn't another professional captain until Len Hutton around sixty years later. The amateur/professional distinction was abolished in 1962, and a new breed of captain in Brian Close and then Ray Illingworth was born.

From the mid-1980s until the late 1990s, English cricket was in decline, with the England team suffering many heavy defeats. The desperation was most clear in the "summer of four captains" in 1988, during the West Indies tour of England, when the captaincy started with Mike Gatting, who was sacked after the first Test as a result of a dalliance with a barmaid. He was initially replaced by John Emburey, who was so poor as a captain that he was replaced after two Tests. Chris Cowdrey came into the team as captain for the fourth Test and was then injured. Finally, Graham Gooch became England's fourth captain of the summer. Unsurprisingly, England lost the five-Test series 4-0. From the late 1990s under Nasser Hussain's captaincy, England started to enjoy a revival, which continued under Michael Vaughan. England were the only team undefeated in 2004, and were, as at June 2005, ranked as the second-best Test nation in the world. Later that summer they regained The Ashes from Australia, having not held them since 1989.

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[edit] Men's Test match captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the English cricket team for at least one Test match. It has been updated to the end of the test series against New Zealand in June 2008. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player deputised for the appointed captain or were appointed by the home authority for a minor proportion in a series. The dagger classification follows that adopted by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.

English Test match captains
Number Name Year Report Opposition Location Played Won Lost Drawn
1 James Lillywhite 1876/7 Report Australia Australia 2 1 1 0[1]
2 Lord Harris 1878/9 Report Australia Australia 1 0 1 0
1880 Report Australia England 1 1 0 0
1884 Report Australia England 2 1 0 1
Total 4 2 1 1[1]
3 Alfred Shaw 1881/2 Report Australia Australia 4 0 2 2[1]
4 A N Hornby 1882 Report Australia England 1 0 1 0
1884 † Report Australia England 1 0 0 1
Total 2 0 1 1[1]
5 Honourable Ivo Bligh 1882/3 Report Australia Australia 4 2 2 0[1]
6 Arthur Shrewsbury
 1884/5 Report Australia Australia 5 3 2 0
1886/7 Report Australia Australia 2 2 0 0
Total 7 5 2 0[1]
7 Allan Steel 1886 Report Australia England 3 3 0 0
1888† Report Australia England 1 0 1 0
Total 4 3 1 0[1]
8 Walter Read 1887/8 Report Australia Australia 1 1 0 0
1891/2 Report South Africa South Africa 1 1 0 0
Total 2 2 0 0[1]
9 W G Grace
 1888 Report Australia England 2 2 0 0
1890 Report Australia England 2 2 0 0
1891/2 Report Australia Australia 3 1 2 0
1893 Report Australia England 2 1 0 1
1896 Report Australia England 3 2 1 0
1899†[2] Report Australia England 1 0 0 1
Total 13 8 3 2[1]
10 Sir Aubrey Smith 1888/9 Report South Africa South Africa 1 1 0 0[1]
11 Monty Bowden[3] 1888/9† Report South Africa South Africa 1 1 0 0[1]
12 Andrew Stoddart 1893† Report Australia England 1 0 0 1
1894/5 Report Australia Australia 5 3 2 0
1897/8 Report Australia Australia 2 0 2 0
Total 8 3 4 1
13 Sir Tim O'Brien 1895/6† Report South Africa South Africa 1 1 0 0[1]
14 Lord Hawke
 1895/6 Report South Africa South Africa 2 2 0 0
1898/9 Report South Africa South Africa 2 2 0 0
Total 4 4 0 0[1]
15 Archie MacLaren 1897/8† Report Australia Australia 3 1 2 0
1899 Report Australia England 4 0 1 3
1901/2 Australia Australia 5 1 0 4
1902 Report Australia England 5 1 2 2
1909 Australia England 5 1 2 2
Total 22 4 7 11[1]
16 Plum Warner 1903/4 Report Australia Australia 5 3 2 0
1905/6 South Africa South Africa 5 1 4 0
Total 10 4 6 0[1]
17 Honourable Stanley Jackson 1905 Australia England 5 2 0 3[1]
18 Tip Foster 1907 South Africa South Africa 3 1 0 2[1]
19 Frederick Fane 1907/8† Australia Australia 3 1 2 0
1909/10† South Africa South Africa 2 1 1 0
Total 5 2 3 0[1]
20 Arthur Jones 1907/8 Australia Australia 2 0 2 0[1]
21 H D G Leveson-Gower 1909/10 South Africa South Africa 3 1 2 0[1]
22 Johnny Douglas[4] 1911/2 Australia Australia 5 4 1 0
1913/4 South Africa South Africa 5 4 0 1
1920/1 Australia Australia 5 0 5 0
1921† Australia England 2 0 2 0
1924† South Africa England 1 0 0 1
Total 18 8 8 2[1]
23 C B Fry 1912 South Africa England 3 3 0 0
1912 Australia England 3 1 0 2
Total 6 4 0 2[1]
24 Honourable Lionel Tennyson 1921 Australia England 3 0 1 2
25 Frank Mann[5] 1922/3 South Africa South Africa 5 2 1 2[1]
26 Arthur Gilligan[6] 1924 South Africa England 4 3 0 1
1924/5 Australia Australia 5 1 4 0
Total 9 4 4 1[1]
27 Arthur Carr 1926 Australia England 4 0 0 4
1929† South Africa England 2 1 0 1
Total 6 1 0 5[1]
28 Percy Chapman 1926† Australia England 1 1 0 0
1928 West Indies England 3 3 0 0
1928/9 Australia Australia 4 4 0 0
1930 Australia England 4 1 1 2
1930/1 South Africa South Africa 5 0 1 4
Total 17 9 2 6[1]
29 Rony Stanyforth 1927/8 South Africa South Africa 4 2 1 1[1]
30 Greville Stevens 1927/8† South Africa South Africa 1 0 1 0[1]
31 Jack White 1928/9† Australia Australia 1 0 1 0
1929 South Africa England 3 1 0 2
Total 4 1 1 2[1]
32 Harold Gilligan[6] 1929/30[7] New Zealand New Zealand 4 [8] 1 0 3
33 Honourable Freddie Calthorpe 1929/30[7] West Indies West Indies 4 1 1 2[1]
34 Bob Wyatt 1930† Australia England 1 0 1 0
1932/3† New Zealand New Zealand 1 0 0 1
1933† West Indies England 1 0 0 1
1934 Australia England 4 1 1 2
1934/5 West Indies West Indies 4 1 2 1
1935 South Africa England 5 0 1 4
Total 16 3 5 8[1]
35 Douglas Jardine
 1931 New Zealand England 3 1 0 2
1932 India England 1 1 0 0
1932/3 Report Australia Australia 5 4 1 0
1932/3 New Zealand New Zealand 1 0 0 1
1933 West Indies England 2 1 0 1
1933/4 India India 3 2 0 1
Total 15 9 1 5[1]
36 Cyril Walters 1934† Australia England 1 0 1 0[1]
37 Gubby Allen 1936 India England 3 2 0 1
1936/7 Australia Australia 5 2 3 0
1947/8 West Indies West Indies 3 0 2 1
Total 11 4 5 2[1]
38 Walter Robins 1937 New Zealand England 3 1 0 2[1]
39 Wally Hammond 1938 Australia England 4 1 1 2
1938/9 South Africa South Africa 5 1 0 4
1939 West Indies England 3 1 0 2
1946 India England 3 1 0 2
1946/7 Australia Australia 4 0 2 2
1946/7 New Zealand New Zealand 1 0 0 1
Total 20 4 3 13[1]
40 Norman Yardley 1946/7† Australia Australia 1 0 1 0
1947 South Africa England 5 3 0 2
1948 Australia England 5 0 4 1
1950 West Indies England 3 1 2 0
Total 14 4 7 3[1]
41 Ken Cranston 1947/8† West Indies West Indies 1 0 0 1[1]
42 George Mann[5] 1948/9 South Africa South Africa 5 2 0 3
1949 New Zealand England 2 0 0 2
Total 7 2 0 5[1]
43 Freddie Brown 1949† New Zealand England 2 0 0 2
1950† West Indies England 1 0 1 0
1950/1 Australia Australia 5 1 4 0
1950/1 New Zealand New Zealand 2 1 0 1
1951 South Africa England 5 3 1 1
Total 15 5 6 4[1]
44 Nigel Howard 1951/2 India India 4 1 0 3[1]
45 Donald Carr 1951/2† India India 1 0 1 0[1]
46 Len Hutton 1952 India England 4 3 0 1
1953 Australia England 5 1 0 4
1953/4 Report West Indies West Indies 5 2 2 1
1954 Pakistan England 2 0 1 1
1954/5 Australia Australia 5 3 1 1
1954/5 New Zealand New Zealand 2 2 0 0
Total 23 11 4 8[1]
47 David Sheppard 1954† Pakistan Pakistan 2 1 0 1[1]
48 Peter May 1955 South Africa England 5 3 2 0
1956 Australia England 5 2 1 2
1956/7 South Africa South Africa 5 2 2 1
1957 West Indies England 5 3 0 2
1958 New Zealand England 5 4 0 1
1958/9 Australia Australia 5 0 4 1
1958/9 New Zealand New Zealand 2 1 0 1
1959 India England 3 3 0 0
1959/60 West Indies West Indies 3 1 0 2
1961 Australia England 3 1 1 1
Total 41 20 10 11[9]
49 Colin Cowdrey[10] 1959† India England 2 2 0 0
1959/1960† West Indies West Indies 2 0 0 2
1960 South Africa England 5 3 0 2
1961† Australia England 2 0 1 1
1962† Pakistan England 1 1 0 0
1966 West Indies England 3 0 2 1
1967/8 West Indies West Indies 5 1 0 4
1968 Australia England 4 1 1 2
1968/9 Pakistan Pakistan 3 0 0 3
Total 27 8 4 15[9]
50 Ted Dexter 1961/2 Pakistan Pakistan 3 1 0 2
1961/2 India India 5 0 2 3
1962 Pakistan England 4 3 0 1
1962/3 Australia Australia 5 1 1 3
1962/3 New Zealand New Zealand 3 3 0 0
1963 West Indies England 5 1 3 1
1964 Australia England 5 0 1 4
Total 30 9 7 14[9]
51 M. J. K. Smith 1963/4 India India 5 0 0 5
1964/5 South Africa South Africa 5 1 0 4
1965 New Zealand England 3 3 0 0
1965 South Africa England 3 0 1 2
1965/6 Australia Australia 5 1 1 3
1965/6 New Zealand New Zealand 3 0 0 3
1966† West Indies England 1 0 1 0
Total 25 5 3 17[9]
52 Brian Close
 1966† West Indies England 1 1 0 0
1967 India England 3 3 0 0
1967 Pakistan England 3 2 0 1
Total 7 6 0 1[1]
53 Tom Graveney 1968† Australia England 1 0 0 1[1]
54 Ray Illingworth[11] 1969 West Indies England 3 2 0 1
1969 New Zealand England 3 2 0 1
1970/1 Australia Australia 6[12] 2 0 4[12]
1970/1 New Zealand New Zealand 2 1 0 1
1971 Pakistan England 3 1 0 2
1971 India England 3 0 1 2
1972 Australia England 5 2 2 1
1973 New Zealand England 3 2 0 1
1973 West Indies England 3 0 2 1
Total 31 12 5 14[9]
55 Tony Lewis 1972/3 India India 5 1 2 2
1972/3 Pakistan Pakistan 3 0 0 3
Total 8 1 2 5[1]
56 Mike Denness 1973/4 West Indies West Indies 5 1 1 3
1974 India England 3 3 0 0
1974 Pakistan England 3 0 0 3
1974/5 Australia Australia 5 1 3 1
1974/5 New Zealand New Zealand 2 1 0 1
1975† Australia England 1 0 1 0
Total 19 6 5 8[1]
57 John Edrich 1974/5† Australia Australia 1 0 1 0[1]
58 Tony Greig 1975 Australia England 3 0 0 3
1976 West Indies England 5 0 3 2
1976/7 India India 5 3 1 1
1976/7 Australia Australia 1 0 1 0
Total 14 3 5 6[1]
59 Mike Brearley 1977 Australia England 5 3 0 2
1977/8 Pakistan Pakistan 2 0 0 2
1978 Pakistan England 3 2 0 1
1978 New Zealand England 3 3 0 0
1978/9 Australia Australia 6 5 1 0
1979 India England 4 1 0 3
1979/80 Australia Australia 3 0 3 0
1979/80 India India 1 1 0 0
1981 Australia England 4 3 0 1
Total 31 18 4 9[9]
60 Geoffrey Boycott 1977/8† Pakistan Pakistan 1 0 0 1
1977/8 New Zealand New Zealand 3 1 1 1
Total 4 1 1 2[1]
61 Ian Botham 1980 West Indies England 5 0 1 4
1980 Australia England 1 0 0 1
1980/1 West Indies West Indies 4 0 2 2
1981† Australia England 2 0 1 1
Total 12 0 4 8[1]
62 Keith Fletcher 1981/2 India India 6 0 1 5
1981/2 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 1 1 0 0
Total 7 1 1 5[1]
63 Bob Willis 1982 India England 3 1 0 2
1982 Pakistan England 2 2 0 0
1982/3 Australia Australia 5 1 2 2
1983 New Zealand England 4 3 1 0
1983/4 New Zealand New Zealand 3 0 1 2
1983/4† Pakistan Pakistan 1 0 1 0
Total 18 7 5 6[1]
64 David Gower 1982† Pakistan England 1 0 1 0
1983/4 Pakistan Pakistan 2 0 0 2
1984 West Indies England 5 0 5 0
1984 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 1 0 0 1
1984/5 India India 5 2 1 2
1985 Australia England 6 3 1 2
1985/6 West Indies West Indies 5 0 5 0
1986† India England 1 0 1 0
1989 Australia England 6 0 4 2
Total 32 5 18 9[9]
65 Mike Gatting 1986 India England 2 0 1 1
1986 New Zealand England 3 0 1 2
1986/7 Australia Australia 5 2 1 2
1987 Pakistan England 5 0 1 4
1987/8 Pakistan Pakistan 3 0 1 2
1987/8 Australia Australia 1 0 0 1
1987/8 New Zealand New Zealand 3 0 0 3
1988† West Indies England 1 0 0 1
Total 23 2 5 16[1]
66 John Emburey 1988 West Indies England 2 0 2 0[1]
67 Chris Cowdrey[10] 1988† West Indies England 1 0 1 0[1]
68 Graham Gooch
 1988† West Indies England 1 0 1 0
1988 Sri Lanka England 1 1 0 0
1989/90 West Indies West Indies 2 1 0 1
1990 New Zealand England 3 1 0 2
1990 India England 3 1 0 2
1990/1 Australia Australia 4 0 2 2
1991 West Indies England 5 2 2 1
1991 Sri Lanka England 1 1 0 0
1991/2 New Zealand New Zealand 3 2 0 1
1992 Pakistan England 5 1 2 2
1992/3 India India 2 0 2 0
1993 Australia England 4 0 3 1
Total 34 10 12 12[9]
69 Allan Lamb 1989/90† West Indies West Indies 2 0 2 0
1990/1† Australia Australia 1 0 1 0
Total 3 0 3 0[1]
70 Alec Stewart 1992/3† India India 1 0 1 0
1992/3 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 1 0 1 0
1998 South Africa England 5 2 1 2
1998 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 1 0 1 0
1998/9 Australia Australia 5 1 3 1
2000† West Indies England 1 1 0 0
2001† Pakistan England 1 0 1 0
Total 15 4 8 3[1]
71 Michael Atherton 1993† Australia England 2 1 1 0
1993/4 West Indies West Indies 5 1 3 1
1994 New Zealand England 3 1 0 2
1994 South Africa England 3 1 1 1
1994/5 Australia Australia 5 1 3 1
1995 West Indies England 6 2 2 2
1995/6 South Africa South Africa 5 0 1 4
1996 India England 3 1 0 2
1996 Pakistan England 3 0 2 1
1996/7 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 2 0 0 2
1996/7 New Zealand New Zealand 3 2 0 1
1997 Australia England 6 2 3 1
1997/8 West Indies West Indies 6 1 3 2
2001† Australia England 2 0 2 0
Total 54 13 21 20[9]
72 Nasser Hussain
 1999 New Zealand England 3 1 2 0
1999/2000 South Africa South Africa 5 1 2 2
2000 Zimbabwe England 2 1 0 1
2000 West Indies England 4 2 1 1
2000/1 Pakistan Pakistan 3 1 0 2
2000/1 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 3 2 1 0
2001 Pakistan England 1 1 0 0
2001 Australia England 3 1 2 0
2001/2 India India 3 0 1 2
2001/2 New Zealand New Zealand 3 1 1 1
2002 Sri Lanka England 3 2 0 1
2002 India England 4 1 1 2
2002/3 Report Australia Australia 5 1 4 0
2003 Zimbabwe England 2 2 0 0
2003 South Africa England 1 0 0 1
Total 45 17 15 13[9]
73 Mark Butcher 1999† New Zealand England 1 0 1 0[1]
74 Michael Vaughan

2003 South Africa England 4 2 2 0
2003/4 Bangladesh Bangladesh 2 2 0 0
2003/4 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 3 0 1 2
2003/4 West Indies West Indies 4 3 0 1
2004 New Zealand England 2 2 0 0
2004 West Indies England 4 4 0 0
2004/5 South Africa South Africa 5 2 1 2
2005 Report Bangladesh England 2 2 0 0
2005 Report Australia England 5 2 1 2
2005/6 Report Pakistan Pakistan 2 0 1 1
2007 Report West Indies England 3 3 0 0
2007 Report India England 3 0 1 2
2007 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 3 0 1 2
2008 New Zealand New Zealand 3 2 1 0
2008 New Zealand England 3 2 0 1
Total 48 26 9 13
75 Marcus Trescothick 2004† New Zealand England 1 1 0 0
2005/6† Report Pakistan Pakistan 1 0 1 0
Total 2 1 1 0[1]
76 Andrew Flintoff 2006 Report India India 3 1 1 1
2006 Sri Lanka England 3 1 1 1
2006/7 Report Australia Australia 5 0 5 0
Total 11 2 7 2
77 Andrew Strauss 2006 Report Pakistan England 4 3 0 1
2007† Report West Indies England 1 0 0 1
Total 5 3 0 2
78 Kevin Pietersen

2008 South Africa England 1 1 0 0
Grand total 873 305 254 314

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi "England Test Captains Records". India Times. Retrieved on 2008-03-20.
  2. ^ W G Grace, playing his last Test was 50 years and 320 days old when the match ended. Only Wilfred Rhodes, who was making his debut in this Test, played Test cricket at a greater age.
  3. ^ Monty Bowden, aged 23 years 144 days, became England's youngest captain on 25 March 1889, three years before dying in Umtali Hospital - a glorified mud hut where his body had to be protected from marauding lions prior to being interred in a coffin made from whisky cases.
  4. ^ Plum Warner captained the touring party, but illness prevented him from appearing in any of the Tests
  5. ^ a b George Mann was the son of Frank Mann, making them the first father and son to both captain England.
  6. ^ a b Arthur Gilligan and Harold Gilligan were brothers: the first brothers to captain England.
  7. ^ a b England had two overlapping Test series in the winter of 1929/30. Their first Test against New Zealand started on 10 January 1930. Their first Test against the West Indies started on 11 January 1930, making the first time England had simultaneously played two Test matches at once.
  8. ^ Harold Gilligan's Cricinfo profile [1] is wrong. He captained England in all four Tests that he played in - the whole England v. New Zealand series of 1929/30
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Most matches as captain". Cricinfo. Retrieved on 2008-03-20.
  10. ^ a b Chris Cowdrey is the son of Colin Cowdrey, making them the second father and son to both captain England after George and Frank Mann.
  11. ^ In 1970, South Africa were due to tour England. However, the Basil D'Oliveira affair, and South Africa's subsequent withdrawal from international cricket left England without a touring side that summer. A Rest of the World XI was hastily arranged to play a 5 match series, which originally was regarded as a Test series. Later the matches were stripped of Test status. The Rest of the World XI won the series 4-1, with Ray Illingworth captaining England in each match, and Gary Sobers captaining the World XI.
  12. ^ a b The third Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia in 1970/1 was abandoned without a ball being bowled and is excluded from these statistics. This is in line with the approach adopted by Wisden and most statisticians, although the match has been recognised as an official Test match by the Australian Board of Control. In its place, once the rain cleared, the two teams played a limited overs game, which was retrospectively recognised as the first One Day International.

[edit] Men's ODI captains

This is a complete list of every man who has captained England in at least one One Day International. It is complete up to the end of the away series against Sri Lanka in October 2007.

Five men (Alan Knott, Norman Gifford, Adam Hollioake, Graham Thorpe and Paul Collingwood) have captained the England one-day side without captaining the Test team.

English ODI captains[1]
Number Name Period of captaincy Played Won Tied Lost No result
1 Ray Illingworth 1970/1-1973 3 1 0 1 1
2 Brian Close 1972 3 2 0 1 0
3 Mike Denness 1973-1975 12 7 0 4 1
4 John Edrich 1974/5 1 0 0 0 1
5 Alan Knott 1976 1 0 0 1 0
6 Tony Greig 1976 2 0 0 2 0
7 Mike Brearley 1977-1979/80 25 15 0 9 1
8 Geoffrey Boycott 1977/8-1978 2 2 0 0 0
9 Bob Willis 1978-1983/4 29 16 0 13 0
10 Ian Botham 1980-1981 9 4 0 5 0
11 Keith Fletcher 1981/2 5 2 0 3 0
12 David Gower 1983/4-1989 24 10 1 13 0
13 Norman Gifford 1984/5 2 0 0 2 0
14 Mike Gatting 1986-1988 37 26 0 11 0
15 John Emburey 1986/7-1987 4 2 0 2 0
16 Graham Gooch 1988-1993 50 24 0 23 3
17 Allan Lamb 1989/90-1990/1 4 1 0 3 0
18 Alec Stewart 1991/2-2002/3 41 15 0 25 1
19 Mike Atherton 1993/4-1997 43 20 1 21 1
20 Nasser Hussain 1996/7-2002/3 56 28 0 27 1
21 Adam Hollioake 1997/8-1998/9 14 6 0 8 0
22 Graham Thorpe 2000/1 3 0 0 3 0
23 Marcus Trescothick 2001/2-2005 10 5 0 5 0
24 Michael Vaughan 2003-2007 60 32 2 22 4
25 Andrew Flintoff 2005/6-2006/7 14 4 0 10 0
26 Andrew Strauss 2005/6-2006 13 4 0 8 1
27 Paul Collingwood 2007/2008 24 10 1 12 1
Grand total 492 236 5 235 16

[edit] Men's Twenty20 International captains

England played their first Twenty20 International in June 2005. At present, Twenty20 Internationals have no official status accorded to them by the International Cricket Council.

English Twenty20 International captains[2]
Number Name Period of captaincy Played Won Tied Lost No result
1 Michael Vaughan 2005-2006/7 2 1 0 1 0
2 Andrew Strauss 2006 2 0 0 2 0
3 Paul Collingwood 2007-2008 9 4 0 5 0
4 Kevin Pietersen 2008-Present 0 0 0 0 0
Grand total 13 5 0 8 0

[edit] Other men's captains

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