The match was played in Johannesburg, 1, 700m above sea level, which is a factor that could further affect the flight of the ball.

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Towards the end of the first half McGregor made an uncharacteristic error with a Ledesma curler into the box when he mis-judged the flight of the ball.

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In a moment to make England manager Fabio Capello shudder, Upson totally misread the flight of the ball, allowing Nugent to send a superb lobbed finish over Robert Green for his fourth Premier League goal of the season.

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When a ball is pitched to the robot, an accelerometer at the back of a batting cage records information about the flight of the ball, including its speed, and this data is relayed back to a machine that holds the GPU-powered brain.

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Unlike most shots, in which the golfer largely controls the flight of the ball through the air, a putt's terrestrial trajectory can be altered by a lot more variables the speed of the green, the contours of the earth, a spike mark, or any little object that might be in the ball's path.

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The Hawk-Eye system uses strategically-placed cameras to determine the exact flight of a ball and is already used in international cricket and at grand slam tennis tournaments.

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On eight minutes Drogba was quicker to read the flight of Del Horno's pass than Senderos and after controlling the ball on his chest, the Chelsea striker struck a neat volley past Lehmann.

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Vettori was bowling superbly, giving the ball plenty of flight and landing it on a sixpence outside off stump, and when Shoaib Malik chipped the spinner to cover, Pakistan were suddenly 71-4 and looking nervous.

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He was just hitting the ball in a way I felt like I couldn't the quality of the strike, his ball flight.

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