Automatic Lead

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Dealer: North
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeK 9
  2. heartA Q J 10 8
  3. diamond2
  4. clubK 10 6 4 3
  1. spade7
  2. heartK 5 4 3
  3. diamondQ 10 7 3
  4. clubA Q 7 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 2 - - 1 -
S 2 - 1 1 -
E - - - - 1
W - 1 - - 1
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA Q 8 6 4
  2. heart9 6 2
  3. diamondK 9 8
  4. club9 8

Contract: 2club
Declarer: North
Lead: club9
  1. spadeJ 10 5 3 2
  2. heart7
  3. diamondA J 6 5 4
  4. clubJ 5
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1heart 1spade 1NT
Pass 2club Pass Pass
Pass
This silly game of ours has a habit of kicking you in the teeth when you're too complacent or go into auto-pilot. I needed to lead a diamond at trick one. From here on a combination of the continuing diamond leads, poor trump break and West's heart holding means that if North tries to draw trumps he is likely to lose control - and 2club will go off! North can get home by finessing a heart at trick two and playing on cross ruff lines - including an unlikely ruff of the third round of diamonds with club10 - but would he have chosen to do so?

Well, should I have found the diamond lead?

P.S. What do make of South's 1NT bid? Surely Pass is much better!
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