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The allegations have turned attention to the practice of spot betting and spread betting in Asia, where large amounts of money are bet on a ball-by-ball basis.
The live-blogging phenomenon actually pre-dates CoverItLive by several years, and probably has its roots among the team of sports obsessives of CricInfo, who first provided ball-by-ball coverage of cricket matches in the mid-1990s.
But TV replays showed that in taking a quick throw-in, Rees had used a different ball - handed to him by a ball-boy - to the one that Jonny Sexton had sliced into touch, which is against rugby's Law 19.2.
Stephenson was encouraged by the way the pink ball - which is really a dyed white ball - stood up to the punishment.
The ball was handled by spectators, which should have denied Wales the right to take a quick throw-in, but Wales captain Matthew Rees was handed a different ball by a ball-boy and passed in to Mike Phillips peeling round the blind side.
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Gilchrist's sensational knock beat Allan Border's 78-ball one-day ton against Sri Lanka in 1985 and his own 78-ball knock against New Zealand in 2000.
Spain had possessed the ball for roughly two-thirds of its games, turning each match into a high-class version of keep-ball, and in the process, becoming the first team to turn passing the ball into a form of defense: Like a clock-eating drive in football, if Spain has the ball, its opponent can't score and the Spanish keep the ball so well that they barely give up any chances, let alone goals.
No further runs were scored in an excellent over from Watson, but Jan Stander's first ball was a no-ball, and the resultant free hit was deposited over long-on for six by Taylor.
Much has been made of Michael Vaughan's poor record in one-day cricket, and he produced a dreadful shot as he aimed to pull a ball that was not nearly short enough, and dragged the ball into his stumps for a seven-ball duck.
He played back to a good-length ball and edged to Mark Wagh at first slip after a 170-ball innings which contained 12 fours and two sixes.
Wigan pressurised the visiting ball-carriers and after the ball was spilled, Deacon fired a cross-kick to the corner which was collected in the air by Carmont and then touched down for the first try after only two minutes.
His company has developed motion-capture software that doesn't require the "ping-pong-ball-bodysuit" worn by actors in movies like Beowulf.
It is displayed on the 60th floor of a five-star hotel nicknamed the Farmer's Apartments that is topped with a golf-ball-shaped room.
Less radically, you could keep the status quo for bit traffic under 1 megabit per second but declare anything over that a new ball game--an unregulated ball game.
The ball travelled down the England line to Dan Hipkiss and the centre - getting man and ball - passed outside to 20 yards of clear space, with Monye nowhere to be seen.
But chasing 250 they were reduced to 22-3 after the first ball of the seventh over when Jonathan Trott departed for a first-ball duck and were bowled out in the 46th over.
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Farrell's kick off was going to fly out of play on the full but the New Zealander caught the ball and carried it over the dead-ball line to put his side under pressure.
His tools, notably a three-pound ball-peen hammer, clanked in a greasy leather bag suspended from the handlebars.
Once play began Pietersen was his usual free-scoring self firing a 53-ball half-century inside the opening hour.
In a gripping finish, the former international timed the run-chase to perfection in a run-a-ball ninth-wicket stand of 56 with Herath, who finished 10 not out.
The controversial Hawk-Eye ball-tracking system, which was developed in England and can accurately call LBWs (leg before wickets), catches and run-outs, is now used in other sports, including tennis.
Trott also collected an early boundary, clipping Robiul Islam to the ropes at third man in the second over, though he survived a loud lbw shout on 42 to hit a leg-glance off Robiul for another boundary and a 76-ball half-century.
Despite having to play the final minutes of the match without their goalscorer Rami -- who was dismissed for an off-the-ball incident -- the Spanish side never relinquished their grip on the tie which was set up by a 4-2 win in the first leg.
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Irish debutant Conor Henderson - another ball-playing midfielder - probed for a gap through the back-line and the 19-year-old's deflected pass was pounced on by Tomas Rosicky, who sped to the byeline to clip a square ball through the legs of Charlie Daniels across the box.
The new centre pairing combined delightfully off good line-out ball, Hook feinting passes to an array of dummy runners before popping the ball to fellow-Lion Bowe.
When we don't have the ball we work hard to gain the ball - defensively we are much better.
In the traditional view of teleportation a spinning ball will de-materialize at one end of the table and exactly the same ball will re-materialize at the other end.
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