Following the wash-out at Headingley and the six-wicket thrashing in Bristol, Gayle opted for action with the ball after winning the toss as heavy cloud circled the long queues battling to get inside Edgbaston.
But he was booed by scores of fans each time he touched the ball after the action began.
Swansea continued to threaten and Pratley was at the centre of the action and it was his ball that found Welsh midfielder Joe Allen on the edge of the box, but this time Marshall parried to safety.
The final action saw a strong hand-ball appeal against Etuhu in the City box.
That close shave spurred Villa into action and Dion Dublin headed the ball goalwards only for Neville to make a goal-line clearance.
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Flintoff is renowned for his pace and accuracy and has shown fine form with the ball since returning to first-class action with Lancashire.
It hoped that by starting the ball rolling it would brand collective-action clauses as a sign of a good credit, rather than of weakness.
Indeed, Chelsea needed keeper Petr Cech to save low down in his first meaningful action in the 57th minute when Galletti teed the ball to Djordjevic from a free-kick.
In the next over Mills found some extra lift and movement to unsettle Umar Akmal and have him caught behind first ball as he tried to take evasive action.
Robben was again in the thick of the action early in the second half, collecting the ball on the left and drawing a good full-stretch save from Mucha with a curling effort before appearing on the right and pulling back for Sneijder to shoot, but again the Slovakia keeper saved, this time with his face.
Jonathan Trott took evasive action at short leg but as he turned away the ball somehow dropped into the Bears fielder's right-hand trouser pocket.
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When the patient crowd was finally rewarded with some action, England lost skipper Andrew Strauss to the first ball of the second over as Ravi Rampaul made an immediate impact in his first one-day international for over a year.
McCormack provided the opening action of the second half after he latched onto a long ball from the Cardiff defence on 54 minutes.
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Rangers goalkeeper Neil Alexander was then called into action when Brahim Hemdani lost possession just outside the box and the ball broke to Aleksandr Anyukov whose smart shot was initially fumbled and then held by Alexander.
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Accusations of chucking have dogged Murali's career, particularly regarding his doosra, a ball delivered with something close to an off-spinner's action but turning in the opposite direction, from leg to off.
She gave him tips about wrist action, momentum, angles of incidence, about which part of the cue ball to hit when, and about the need to care just enough that you noticed you cared, but no more than that.
With six minutes of injury time played, Celtic threw everything at Accies in search of a winner and the drama continued as Stokes headed the ball into the net from Mulgrew's corner in the last action of the match.
On the restart, Rovers survived an early scare close to their own line but when, on his return to action, Rob Purdham flung out a wild pass on 44 minutes Dobson snatched the ball to race 80 metres to claim his second try.
Dani was at the centre of the action and he finally found the net with his third header - this time glancing the ball home from Pep Guardiola's free-kick.
Morgan fell to the ground as Hazard attempted to wrest the ball away from him before the 22-year-old Chelsea midfielder took more drastic action.
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Gallacher was called into action again when David Silva tried his luck from distance, the keeper doing well to push the ball out for a corner.
Boruc had to move sharply to turn around a Jose Goncalves header as half-time approached then Caldwell was called into action to prevent an Andrew Driver shot from crossing the line after the Polish keeper had palmed the ball goal-bound.
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Vieri, who had seen limited action in Inter's previous game, limped off the field holding his thigh after stretching for the ball near the Parma goal and colliding with the keeper Gianluigi Buffon.
The Baggies dominance continued, and Van der Sar was again in action on 28 minutes, saving well from debutant Campbell after the former Everton man latched on to a long ball.
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