Even the Best Get It Wrong Sometimes

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Dealer: West
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: Butler IMPs
  1. spadeK 9 5 4
  2. heartA J 8 7
  3. diamond8 6 3
  4. clubA 7
  1. spadeA Q 3
  2. heart2
  3. diamondA Q J 10 7 4
  4. clubQ J 5
club diamond heart spade NT
N 1 - 3 2 -
S 1 - 3 2 -
E - 2 - - 2
W - 2 - - 2
Green square in centre
  1. spadeJ 10
  2. heartQ 10 9 4
  3. diamond9 5 2
  4. club8 4 3 2

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: South
Lead: heart2
  1. spade8 7 6 2
  2. heartK 6 5 3
  3. diamondK
  4. clubK 10 9 6
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1diamond Pass Pass Dble
3diamond 4diamond Pass 4heart
Pass Pass Pass
Fatally, Zia now cashed the ace of trumps. He was still able to play clubK, ruff a club, diamond ruff, cash club10, but East still retained heartQ10 at the end and that was one down.

Zia immediately realised that had he followed his adopted line without cashing heartA at trick six then East would have been end-played at trick eleven forced to ruff West's winner and lead into dummy's heartAJ. Should he have found this winning line?
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