This is a bibliography of literary and historical works about cricket. The list is sorted by author's name. It is inevitably highly selective. The 1984 edition of E. W. Padwick's A Bibliography of Cricket (see below) had more than 10,000 entries.

David Rayvern Allen
  • Arlott on Cricket (1984) (editor)
  • Cricket on the Air (1985) (editor)
  • Early Books on Cricket (1987)
HS Altham
  • MCC Cricket Coaching Book, 1st edition (1952)
  • Hampshire County Cricket: The official history of Hampshire County Cricket Club (1957)
  • A History of Cricket (with E W Swanton) – various editions, most recently 1962 (hb), 1968 (pb)
  • Lord's and the MCC (with John Arlott) (1967)
  • The Heart of Cricket: A memoir of H.S. Altham (1967)
John Arlott
  • Indian Summer (1946)
  • Gone to the Cricket (1948)
  • How to Watch Cricket (1948; rev 1983)
  • From Hambledon to Lords (1948)
  • Concerning Cricket (1949)
  • The Middle Ages of Cricket (1949)
  • Gone with the Cricketers (1950)
  • Cricket in the Counties (1950)
  • Days at the Cricket (1951)
  • Maurice Tate (1951)
  • The Echoing Green (1952)
  • Test Match Diary 1953 (1953)
  • Australian Test Journal 1954-55 (1955)
  • Alletson's Innings (1957)
  • Cricket Journal (1958)
  • Cricket Journal 2 (1959)
  • Cricket Journal 3 : Cricket on Trial (1960)
  • Cricket Journal 4 : The Australian Challenge (1961)
  • Vintage Summer 1967 (1967)
  • Cricket – The Great Ones : Eight First Class Batsmen (1967)
  • Cricket – The Great Bowlers (1968)
  • The Noblest Game: A Book of Fine Cricket Prints (with Neville Cardus) (1969)
  • Cricket – The Great All-rounders (1970)
  • Cricket – The Great Captains (1971)
  • Fred – Portrait of a Fast Bowler (1971)
  • The Ashes 1972 (1972)
  • A Hundred Years of County Cricket (1973)
  • An Eye for Cricket (with Patrick Eagar) (1979)
  • John Arlott's Book of Cricketers (1979)
  • Jack Hobbs : Profile of the Master (1981)
  • A Word from Arlott (1983)
  • Arlott on Cricket (1984) (edited by David Rayvern Allen)
  • John Arlott's 100 Greatest Batsmen (1986)
  • The Essential John Arlott (1989)
  • Basingstoke Boy : The Autobiography (1989)
Geoff Armstrong
  • A Century of Summers: 100 years of Sheffield Shield cricket, Randwick, Ironbark Press, 1992. (ISBN 1-875471-20-0)
F S Ashley-Cooper
  • At the Sign of the Wicket (1900) – a series in Cricket Magazine reproducing notices of known matches played 1742 to 1751
  • Sussex Cricket and Cricketers (1901)
  • Curiosities of First-Class Cricket 1730-1901 (1901)
  • The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle 1772-1796 (1924)
  • Kent Cricket Matches 1719-1880 (1929)
Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
  • A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1707-1863 (1985)
  • A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles (2nd ed 1982)
  • A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Australia (2nd ed 1983)
  • A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in India (1986)
  • A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in New Zealand (1981)
  • A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in North and South America (1987)
  • A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Pakistan (1989)
  • A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in South Africa (1981)
  • A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in Sri Lanka (1987)
  • A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the West Indies (1984)
  • The ACS International Cricket Yearbook (2013 edition is the 28th year)
  • The ACS Second Eleven Annual (2013 edition is the 29th year)
  • The Cricket Statistician, a quarterly Journal for members
  • The ACS Famous Cricketers Series (complete playing records, match by match, of notable cricketers, 100 were published in the series).
Philip Bailey
  • Who's Who of Cricketers (co-edited) (1984, second edition 1993)
Trevor Bailey
  • The Greatest of My Time (1968)
Anthony Barker
  • The WACA: An Australian Cricket Success Story (1998)
Ralph Barker
  • Ten Great Innings (1964)
  • Ten Great Bowlers (1967)
  • England v Australia: A compendium of Test cricket between the countries 1877-1968 (with Irving Rosenwater) (1969)
  • Cricketing Family Edrich (1976)
  • Innings of a Lifetime, 1954-77 (1982)
  • Purple Patches (1987)
Brian Bassano
  • South Africa in International Cricket 1888–1970 (1979)
  • The West Indies in Australia 1930-31 (with Rick Smith) (1990)
  • A Springbok Down Under: South Africa on Tour, 1931-32 (with Rick Smith) (1991) (based on the diary of Ken Viljoen)
  • Vic's Boys: Australia in South Africa 1935-36 (1993)
  • South African Cricket: Vol. 4, 1947–1960 (1996)
  • South Africa versus England: 106 Years of Test Match Glory (1996)
  • MCC in South Africa 1938-39 (1997)
  • Aubrey Faulkner: His Record Innings by Innings (2001)
  • Mann's Men: MCC in South Africa 1922-23 (2004)
  • The Visit of Mr W. W. Read's 1891-92 English Cricket Team to South Africa (with Rick Smith) (2007)
  • Maiden Victory: The 1935 South African Tour of England (with Rick Smith) (2012)
Richie Benaud
  • The Way of Cricket (1961)
  • A Tale of Two Tests (1962)
  • Spin Me a Spinner (1963)
  • The New Champions (1966)
  • Willow Patterns (1969)
  • Test Cricket (1982)
  • World Series Cup Cricket 1981-82 (1982)
  • The Hottest Summer (1983)
  • The Ashes 1982-83 (1983)
  • Benaud on Reflection (1984)
  • The Appeal of Cricket (1995)
  • Anything But (1998)
  • My Spin on Cricket (2005)
  • Over But Not Out (2010)
Henry Bentley
  • A Correct Account of all the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Mary-le-bone Club, and all other principal matches, from the Year 1786 to 1822 inclusive (1823)[1]
Keith Booth
  • Atherton's progress: From Kensington Oval to Kennington Oval (1996)
  • Knowing the Score (1998) (a history of scoring)
  • His Own Enemy (2000) (biography of Ted Pooley)
  • The Father of Modern Sport: The Life and Times of Charles W. Alcock (2002)
  • George Lohmann, Pioneer Professional (2007)
  • Ernest Hayes – Brass in a Golden Age (2009)
Rowland Bowen
  • Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World (1970)
Derek Birley
  • A Social History of English Cricket (1999)
  • The Willow Wand: Some Cricket Myths Explored (1979)
Sir Don Bradman
Mike Brearley
Samuel Britcher
  • A list of all the principal Matches of Cricket that have been played in the year x (annual series where x = 1790 to 1800)
Dick Brittenden
Gerald Brodribb
G B Buckley
  • Fresh Light on Eighteenth Century Cricket (1935)
  • Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket (1937)
Alexander Buzo
  • Legends of the Baggy Green (2004)
Sir Neville Cardus
  • A Cricketer's Book (1922)
  • Days in the Sun (1924)
  • Good Days (1934)
  • Australian Summer (1937)
  • Autobiography (1947)
  • Second Innings (1950)
  • Cricket All The Year (1952)
  • Close of Play (1956)
  • The Playfair Cardus (1963)
  • The Noblest Game: A Book of Fine Cricket Prints (with John Arlott) (1969)
  • Full Score (1970)
  • Cardus on Cricket (1977)
  • Cardus in the Covers (1978)
  • Play Resumed With Cardus (1979)
  • A Fourth Innings with Cardus (1981)
  • The Roses Matches 1919-1939 (1982)
  • A Cardus for All Seasons (1985)
  • Cardus on the Ashes (1989)
  • The Wisden Papers of Neville Cardus (Wisden Papers) (1989) (edited by Benny Green)
Dudley Carew
  • England Over, A Cricket Book (1927)
  • Son of Grief (novel; 1936)
  • To The Wicket (1947)
Arthur Carman
  • Cricket Almanack of New Zealand
  • New Zealand International Cricket 1894-1974
Richard Cashman
  • Patrons, Players and the Crowd : The Phenomenon of Indian cricket (1980)
  • 'Ave a go, yer mug ! Australian Cricket Crowds from Larrikin to Ocker (1984)
  • The "Demon" Spofforth (1990) (ISBN 0-86840-004-1)
Stephen Chalke
  • Runs in the Memory (1997)
  • Caught in the Memory: County Cricket in the 1960s (1999)
  • One More Run (2000) (with Bryan "Bomber" Wells)
  • At the Heart of English Cricket: The Life and Memories of Geoffrey Howard (2001) (with Geoffrey Howard)
  • Guess My Story: The Life and Opinions of Keith Andrew, Cricketer (2003)
  • No Coward Soul: The Remarkable Story of Bob Appleyard (2003) (with Derek Hodgson)
  • Ken Taylor: Drawn to Sport (2006)
  • A Summer of Plenty: George Herbert Hirst in the Summer of 1906 (2006)
  • Tom Cartwright: The Flame Still Burns (2007)
  • Five Five Five: Holmes and Sutcliffe in 1932 (2007)
  • The Way It Was: Glimpses of English Cricket's Past (2008)
  • Now I'm 62: The Diary of an Ageing Cricketer (a novel) (2010)
  • A Long Half Hour: Six Cricketers Remembered (2010)
  • Micky Stewart and the Changing Face of Cricket (2012)
  • Gentlemen, Gypsies and Jesters: The Wonderful World of Wandering Cricket (2013) (with Anthony Gibson)
Aakash Chopra
  • Beyond the Blues: A First-Class Season Like No Other (2009)
  • Out of the Blue: Rajasthan's Road to the Ranji Trophy (2011)
"A Country Vicar"
  • Cricket Memories (1930)
  • Second Innings (1933)
  • The Happy Cricketer (1946)
Tony Cozier
  • The West Indies: 50 Years of Test Cricket (1978 – foreword by Sir Garfield Sobers)
Bernard Darwin
  • Eton v Harrow at Lord's (1926)
  • W. G. Grace (1934)
James Dance (a.k.a. James Love)
  • Cricket, an Heroic Poem (1744)
William Denison
  • Cricket
  • Sketches of the Players (1846)
W Epps
  • A Collection of all the Grand Matches of Cricket 1771 to 1791 (1799)
Nicholas Felix (Nicholas Wanostrocht)
  • Felix on the Bat (1845)
Jack Fingleton
  • Cricket Crisis (1947)
  • Brightly Fades the Don (1949)
  • Brown & Company (1951)
  • The Ashes Crown the Year (1954)
  • Masters of Cricket (1958)
  • Four Chukkas to Australia (1960)
  • The Greatest Test of All (1961)
  • Fingleton on Cricket, London, Collins, 1972. (ISBN 0-00-211180-2)
  • The Immortal Victor Trumper (1978)
  • Batting from Memory (1981)
John Ford
  • Cricket – A Social History 1700-1835 (1972)
Bill Frindall
  • The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978 (1979)
David Frith
  • The Fast Men (1975)
  • My Dear Victorious Stod (1977)
  • The Golden Age of Cricket (1978)
  • The Slow Men (1984)
  • Archie Jackson (1987)
  • Pageant of Cricket (1987)
  • Silence of the Heart (1991)
  • Bodyline Autopsy (2002)
A J Gaston
  • Sussex County Cricket 1728-1923 (1924)
Alan Gibson
  • Jackson's Year: The Test Matches of 1905 (1966)
  • Growing Up With Cricket – Some Memories of a Sporting Education (1985)
  • The Cricket Captains of England (1979, revised edition 1989)
  • Of Didcot and the Demon: The Cricketing Times of Alan Gibson (2009) (Compiled by Anthony Gibson)
William Godfrey – pseudonym of Samuel Youd for his novels about cricket
William Goldwin
  • In Certamen Pilae ('On a ball game': i.e., a rural cricket match) (1706)
John Goulstone
  • Hambledon – The Men and the Myths (2001)
W G Grace
  • Cricket (1891)[3]
  • Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections (1899)[4]
Peter Griffiths
  • Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, Compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths, Library Association, 1991 (covers the period 1980–1990)
Ramachandra Guha
  • Wickets in the East (1992)
  • Spin and Other Turns (1994)
  • An Indian Cricket Omnibus (ed. with TG Vaidyanathan) (1994)
  • The Picador Book of Cricket (ed.) (2001)
  • A Corner of a Foreign Field – An Indian History of a British sport (2002)
  • The States of Indian Cricket (2005)
Gideon Haigh
  • The Cricket War (1993). ISBN 9781472950635
  • Mystery Spinner: The story of Jack Iverson, Melbourne, Text, 1999. (ISBN 1-876485-51-5)
  • The Big Ship: Warwick Armstrong and the Making of Modern Cricket (2000)
  • Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket (2004)
  • Silent Revolutions: Writings on Cricket History (2006)
  • The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Cricket (2007)
Duncan Hamilton
Chris Harte
  • A History of Australian Cricket (1993)
  • The History of the Sheffield Shield (1987)
Fyzul Hassanali
Arthur Haygarth
  • Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores and Biographies, published in 15 volumes between 1862 and 1879
Bernard Hollowood
  • Cricket on the Brain (1970)
Gerald Howat
C L R James
D R Jardine
  • In Quest of the Ashes (1933)
JM Kilburn
  • In Search of Cricket (1937)
  • The Scarborough Cricket Festival (1948)
  • History of Yorkshire County Cricket 1924-1949 (1950)
  • Yorkshire County Cricket (County Cricket Series) (1950)
  • Len Hutton: The story of a great cricketer (1951)
  • Cricket (Homes of Sport) (with Norman Yardley) (1952)
  • Cricket Decade: England v. Australia 1946 to 1956 (1959)
  • A Century of Yorkshire County Cricket (1963)
  • A History of Yorkshire Cricket (1970)
  • Thanks to Cricket (1973)
  • Overthrows (1975)
  • Sweet Summers: The Classic Cricket Writing of JM Kilburn: Edited by Duncan Hamilton (2008)
A E Knight
  • The Complete Cricketer (1906)
John Lazenby
  • Test of Time, John Murray, 2005
Christopher Lee
  • From the Sea End – Official History of Sussex CCC (1989)
David Lemmon
  • The History of Surrey County Cricket Club (1989)
W J Lewis
  • The Language of Cricket (1938)
E V Lucas
  • The Hambledon Men (1907)
Timothy J McCann
  • Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century (2004)
John Major
Ashley Mallett
John Marshall
  • A History of Sussex Cricket (1959)
  • The Duke Who Was Cricket (1961)
G D Martineau
  • Bat, Ball, Wicket and All (1954)
  • The Field is Full of Shades (1954)
  • They Made Cricket (1956)
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
  • The Wisden Book of County Cricket (with Frank Warwick) (1981)
  • Ball by Ball: The Story of Cricket Broadcasting (1990)
Ronald Mason
  • Batsman's Paradise: An anatomy of cricketomania (1955)
  • Jack Hobbs – A Portrait of an Artist as a Great Batsman (1960)
  • Walter Hammond: A biography (1962)
  • Sing All A Green Willow (1967)
  • 'Plum' Warner's Last Season (1970)
  • Warwick Armstrong's Australians (1973)
  • Ashes in the Mouth: The Story of the Bodyline Tour of 1932-33 (1982)
Eric Midwinter
  • WG Grace: His Life and Times (1981)
  • 150 Years: Surrey Cricket Club 1845-1995 (1995)
Keith Miller
  • Cricket Crossfire (1956)
Mary Russell Mitford
  • Our Village (1832) (this collection of essays contains one on a village cricket match[5])
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Mahiyar Morawalla
  • Cricket Cavalcade: Studies of Great Batsmen (1976)
  • King of Kings: The Story of Sir Garfield Sobers (1981)
Patrick Morrah
Ashley Mote
Johnnie Moyes
  • Australian Cricket: A History, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1959.
Sujit Mukherjee
  • The Romance of Indian Cricket 1968
  • Playing for India 1972
  • Between Indian Wickets 1977
  • Matched Winners 1996
  • Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer 1997
  • An Indian Cricket Century: Selected Writings 2002
D.J. Mulvaney
  • Cricket Walkabout: The Australian Aboriginal Cricketers on Tour 1867-8 (1967)
William North
  • Nottingham Old Club Match Scores (1832)
John Nyren
E.W. Padwick
  • A Bibliography of Cricket, Library Association, 1984 (2nd edition)
  • Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, Compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths, Library Association, 1991 (covers the period 1980–1990)
J S Penny
  • Cricket References in Norwich Newspapers 1701 – 1800 (year tbc)
Roland Perry
Playfair
Jack Pollard
  • Australian Cricket 5 volumes: The Formative Years, 1803–1893; The Turbulent Years, 1893–1917; The Bradman Years 1918–1948; The Packer Years, 1948–1995; Highest, Most and Best, 192 Years of Cricket Statistics. Sydney, The Book Company, 1995. (ISBN 1-86309-084-3)
  • Australian Cricket: The game and the players. Sydney, Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. (ISBN 0-340-28796-9)
  • Six and Out: The legend of Australian and New Zealand Cricket, 4th ed., North Sydney, Jack Pollard, 1973 (ISBN 0-909950-32-6)
James Pycroft
  • The Cricket Field (1851)
Simon Rae
Vasant Raiji
  • Ranji: The Legend and the Man (1963)
  • L. P. Jai: Memories of a Great Batsman (edited) (1976)
  • The Romance of the Ranji Trophy (1984)
  • India's Hambledon Men (1986)
  • CCI and the Brabourne Stadium, 1937-1987 (with Anandji Dossa) (1987)
  • C. K. Nayudu: The Shahenshah of Indian Cricket (1989)
  • Duleep: A Centenary Tribute (2005)
  • From Presidency to Pentangular (with Mohandas Menon) (2006)
Netta Rheinberg
R. C. Robertson-Glasgow
  • Cricket Prints – Some Batsmen and Bowlers (1920–1940) (1943)
  • More Cricket Prints – Some Batsmen and Bowlers (1920–1945) (1948)
  • 46 Not Out – an autobiography (1948)
  • Rain Stopped Play (1948)
  • The Brighter Side of Cricket (1950)
  • All in the Game (1952)
  • How To Become A Test Cricketer (1962)
  • Crusoe on cricket: The cricket writings of R.C. Robertson-Glasgow (1966)
Ray Robinson
  • Between Wickets (1946)
  • The Glad Season (1955)
  • The Wildest Tests (1972)
  • On Top Down Under (1975)
Peter Roebuck
Alan Ross
  • Australia 55 (1955)
  • Cape Summer and the Australians in England (1956)
  • The Cricketer's Companion (editor) (1960)
  • Through the Caribbean (1960)
  • Australia 63 (1963)
  • Ranji – Prince of Cricketers (1983)
Rowland Ryder
  • Cricket Calling (1995)
Keith A. P. Sandiford
  • 100 Years of Organised Cricket in Barbados, 1892–1992 (1992; edited with Ronald Hughes and Carlisle Burton)
  • Cricket Nurseries of Colonial Barbados: The Elite Schools, 1865–1966 (1998)
  • Gary Sobers (1998)
  • The Imperial Game: Cricket, Culture and Society (1998; edited with Brian Stoddart)
Hugh de Sélincourt
  • The Cricket Match (a novel) (1924)
Gerard Siggins
  • Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792-2005 (2005)
  • 100 Greats of Irish Cricket (with James Fitzgerald, 2006)
  • Raiders of the Caribbean: Ireland's World Cup adventure (with Trent Johnston, 2007)
HF & AP Squire
  • Pre-Victorian Sussex Cricket (1951)
Richard Streeton
JF Sutton
E W Swanton
  • Elusive Victory (1951)
  • Cricket and the Clock (1952)
  • Best Cricket Stories (1953)
  • West Indian Adventure 1953-1954 (1954)
  • West Indies Revisited – MCC tour 1959-1960 (1960)
  • Cricket from All Angles (1968)
  • Sort of a Cricket Person (1972)
  • Swanton in Australia with MCC 1946-1975 (1975)
  • Follow On (1977)
  • Barclays World of Cricket (General Editor) (1980 – 2nd ed.)
  • As I Said at the Time – a Lifetime of Cricket (1983)
  • Gubby Allen – Man of Cricket (1985)
  • Kent Cricket – a Photographic History 1744-1984 (with C H Taylor) (1985)
  • The Essential E W Swanton – the 1980s Observed (1990)
  • Last Over – A Life in Cricket (1996)
Percy Francis Thomas
  • Old English Cricket (1929)
A. A. Thomson
  • Cricket My Pleasure (1953)
  • Cricket My Happiness (1954)
  • Pavilioned in Splendour (1956)
  • The Great Cricketer (a biography of Dr W G Grace) (1957 and 1968)
  • Odd Men In (1958)
  • Hirst and Rhodes (1959, 1986)
  • Cricket Bouquet (1961)
  • Cricket: The Golden Ages (1961)
  • Hutton and Washbrook (1963)
  • Cricket: The Great Captains (1965)
  • Cricket: The Wars of the Roses (1967)
  • Cricketers of My Times (1967)
Geoff Tibballs
  • No-balls and Googlies (2007)
David Underdown
  • Start of Play (2000)
H T Waghorn
  • Cricket Scores 1730–1773 (1899)
  • The Dawn of Cricket (1906)
P F Warner
  • How we recovered the Ashes (1904)
  • Cricket Between Two Wars (1942)
  • Lord's 1787-1945 (1947)
  • Long Innings (1951)
  • Sir Pelham Warner's Book of Cricket (1945)
Steve Waugh
  • Out of My Comfort Zone: the autobiography, Melbourne, Penguin, 2005. (ISBN 0-670-04198-X)
J R Webber
  • The Chronicle of W.G. (1998)
Roy Webber
  • The Playfair Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1951
  • The Australians in England: A record of the 21 Australian cricket tours of England, 1878 to 1953 (1953)
  • The County Cricket Championship: A history of the competition from 1873 to the present day (1957)
  • Phoenix History of Cricket (1960)
  • The Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1963 (concise edition)
Simon Wilde
  • Ranji: A Genius Rich and Strange (1990)
  • Letting Rip: The Fast Bowling Threat from Lillee to Waqar (1994)
  • Number One: The World's Best Batsmen and Bowlers (1998)
  • Caught: The Full Story of Corruption in International Cricket (2001)
  • Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius (2007)
Martin Wilson
  • An Index to Waghorn (Bodyline Books, 2005)
John Wisden
John Woodcock
  • The Times – One Hundred Greatest Cricketers (1998)
Graeme Wright
  • Test Decade 1972-1982 (1982)
  • A Wisden Collection (2004)
  • Wisden at Lord's – An Illustrated Anthology (2005)
Peter Wynne-Thomas
  • Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records (1983)
  • Give Me Arthur (1985)
  • From the Weald to the World (1997)
Graham Yallop
  • Lambs to the Slaughter (1979)
Samuel Youd (writing as William Godfrey)
  • Malleson at Melbourne (novel) (1956)
  • The Friendly Game (fiction) (1957)

References

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  1. ^ A facsimile edition was published in 1997, incorporating additional material by David Rayvern Allen.
  2. ^ "Brittenden, Dick. The Finest Years: Twenty Years of New Zealand Cricket review" (PDF). Journal of Sport History. LA84 Foundation Digital Archive. 1979. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  3. ^ ghost-written by W. Methven Brownlee
  4. ^ Ghost-written for him by Arthur Porritt – Alan Gibson: The Cricket Captains of England, 1989, p51.
  5. ^ Our Village
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