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    Rain lashed against the pub window, mirroring the storm inside me. Pakistan needed 4 runs off the last ball. My phone buzzed violently, nearly slipping from my sweat-slicked grip – not a text, but Criq. Its AI-generated voice, calm amidst the roaring chaos of the pub and my own thundering heartbeat, whispered a prediction directly into my bone-conduction headphones: "Bowler favours wide yorker. Batter weak on deep square leg boundary." The raw data point felt like a physical nudge. I screamed "F - 
  
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