Did the gasket fail in the area adjacent to the crack in the cylinder?

Hard to tell by looking st a pic on my phone....... and it may not have anything to do with the failure........ but the machining marks in the gasket look coarser than what I’d do for a MLS gasket.

I’d also look at the relationship between the gasket bore and the cylinder bore....... to be sure the edge of the gasket bore was definitely not hanging into the cylinder bore...... at all.