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Image: A FAREWELL AND CAREER-END graphic for a fictional

Generated from: A FAREWELL AND CAREER-END graphic for a fictional cricket management game — honouring a player who is retiring. ABSOLUTE RULE: the picture contains NOT ONE SINGLE CHARACTER. No letters, no words, no digits, no player name, no years, no career figures, no headline, no sponsor wordmark, no shirt number. Every panel is a BLANK EMPTY PLATE. Do not write out any word from this instruction anywhere in the image. TONE, and this must not be got wrong: this is the end of a career, NOT a death. Nothing funereal. No black armbands, no candles, no flowers, no memorial wreath, no monochrome mourning treatment, no portrait framed like an obituary. The mood is warm gratitude and honest pride — a long job well done, applause rather than grief. FRAMING RULE: render the picture as a widescreen 16:9 photograph occupying the central horizontal band of the canvas. The top strip is plain empty sky, the bottom strip plain dark blurred crowd; nothing important enters either strip. SUBJECT: a veteran cricketer in his late thirties walking off his home ground for the last time, bat tucked under one arm, helmet off, raising his free hand to a standing crowd. He is smiling, weathered, at ease — greying at the temples, lines around the eyes, the physical record of a long career. Teammates form a guard of honour on either side, applauding him through. Warm late-evening light across the outfield, long soft shadows, the stands full and on their feet. The player is an adult of believable appearance, an invented person resembling no real cricketer. INTERFACE LAYER: dark smoked-glass plates in navy over anthracite, clearly darker than what lies behind them. One slim blank horizontal bar in the upper middle, one fifteenth of the picture height; one blank medium card in the lower middle third; a row of four small blank tiles for career figures. All sit well inside the middle of the picture, far from the bottom, and never cover his face. SAFE ZONE: every panel keeps at least one tenth of the picture width and height clear of all four edges. Nothing is cropped. COLOUR: deep navy, neutral anthracite, white highlights, warm golden evening light. Panel borders stay neutral brushed graphite and warm grey. Everything fictional: original abstract crest without letters, invented kit, unbranded bat, no resemblance to any real league, club, player or sponsor. Photorealistic sports photography, sharp, correct cricket equipment, plausible anatomy, correct hands and fingers, natural skin texture and tone, plausible shadows, no HDR oversaturation.