But from a lofted ball his poor touch took him away from the target as Jaaskelainen bore down on him and when Fowler laid the ball off to Villanueva the Chilean slipped at the vital moment.
He lofted the ball over the onrushing Myhill, but it drifted agonisingly wide.
Dorman had St Mirren's best chance of the half in the 35th minute when he ran on to Wyness' brilliant lofted through ball.
He cut-back for the oncoming Hasselbaink who cleverly side-stepped and sweetly lofted the ball into the top left-hand corner to put Cardiff 2-0 up.
Tigers left fielder Andy Dirks lofted a ball toward left field.
Lavezzi had a shot deflected wide off left-back before he lofted a ball to release Edinson Cavani on the home goal only for the Napoli striker to blaze horribly over.
Sammon latched onto a lofted through ball from Taouil and a well-timed tackle from Inverness defender Ross Tokely could only divert the ball into the path of Bryson, who tucked it past Esson from eight yards.
The Ivory Coast midfielder stole in unmarked to nod home a lofted through-ball from influential midfielder Xavi to score his sixth goal this season.
The fourth ball is lofted one-handed back over the bowler's head, and that's six into the pavilion!
The Blues almost added a stunning second when the ball was lofted into the box and Cole turned and lashed a fearsome volley against the crossbar.
Bowyer latched on to James McFadden's lofted pass before cushioning the ball past Mark Schwarzer for his fourth goal of the season.
With the flags atop the stadium stiffly pointing toward right, Buck lofted an opposite-field fly ball that landed in the netting just beyond the right field fence to make it 4-0.
At one stage the game was held up to find a new ball after Hussey sent a lofted off-drive into the trees outside the ground.
Haddin then lofted Ntini's second delivery with the new ball directly to Proteas debutant JP Duminy.
The six powerplay overs produced 65 runs for England and although Botha returned to briefly calm the scoring rate, he was frustrated when Kieswetter, on 29, lofted to deep mid-wicket where JP Duminy settled under the ball only to fumble the chance.
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Seconds later, Walcott ran into the area to meet a lofted pass from Rooney but had to rush his shot and clipped the ball narrowly over.
And Motherwell moved further ahead when Sutton and Marius Zaliukas rose to challenge for Tom Hateley's lofted free-kick and the striker claimed the last touch as the ball found its way into the net.
That began to change when, the ball after Mascarenhas had Gambhir caught at short fine-leg, Yuvraj lofted the same bowler over the top for six.
The 100 arrived in the 30th over, at which point England were 146-1, Dhoni infuriating his captain when assuming a lofted drive would go for four and not bothering to run, only for the ball to plug in the dewy outfield to allow only a single.
From 139-5, Essex skipper James Foster struck the ball cleanly and brought up his own half century and his side's 200 with a lofted cover drive off Thomas in the 27th over.
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