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  • Pascali again lost a long ball, this time from Stephen Craigan, to leave Murphy clear on goal, but Bell dived to his left to push away the Scotland Under-21 striker's effort.

    BBC: Jamie Murphy celebrates with Mark Reynolds

  • Every dog owner has helped her dog find a lost ball or treat by pointing in the right direction.

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  • They lost the ball a staggering 34 times and the steadying hand of Wilkinson should prevent the lack of direction that was evident in the first encounter.

    BBC: Austin Healey will be comfortable back on the wing

  • The home defenders watched motionless as they expected the ball to loop out of play, but Ward showed his willingness to chase a lost cause for a second time and hooked the ball from the byline into the six yard box.

    BBC: Swansea 2-3 Norwich

  • Moments later the visitors again contributed to their own downfall when number eight Phil Dowson, starting his first England match after joining the tour as a replacement, lost control of the ball at the base of a scrum.

    BBC: New Zealand Maori 35-28 England

  • He lost control of a slower ball which Watson did not pick up, until it landed on his off-stump.

    BBC: Australia ease to win over Scots

  • New Zealand scored their fourth try on 62 minutes when Harris lost the ball in a crunching tackle on halfway.

    BBC: Great Britain 16 New Zealand 36

  • They put on 55 before a switch to Ollie Rayner's off-spin brought the visitors fortune and Troughton, playing defensively at a leg-side delivery, lost his balance, the ball rebounding off Hodd's pads for a stumping.

    BBC: Trott century keeps Bears in game

  • England lost Alastair Cook to a first-ball duck but had raced to 134-2 by the close of play at Warner Park.

    BBC: Simmons punishes England bowlers

  • Somerset began the day on 129-5 and soon lost Craig Kieswetter, who played a ball from Ryan McLaren onto his stumps.

    BBC: In-form Somerset nearing Kent win

  • In the second round of the NCAA tournament, Davidson was leading Marquette by a point when it lost the ball out of bounds against the Golden Eagles press.

    WSJ: Officials facing dilemma with video review

  • Despite those misgivings, few will have given Ireland a chance of chasing down 328 to win and even fewer will have been backing them after they lost a wicket from the very first ball of their reply.

    BBC: Cricket World Cup: Brilliant Ireland shock England

  • Suppiah, already past 1, 000 runs in his best-ever season, lost nothing by comparison and had hit 16 fours and a six in his 178-ball innings when he lost his off-stump to Chapple.

    BBC: Trescothick ton threatens Lancs

  • They think they can call it and can understand when a passer has lost control of the ball, so we felt more comfortable proposing the rule.

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  • But the real body blow for West Indies was the loss of Nash, whose four-and-a-quarter-hour innings ended disappointingly when he offered no stroke to a ball from Bollinger and lost his off stump.

    BBC: Australia on brink of victory over West Indies in Perth

  • Scotland took the lead on a rare break when defender Holmar Eyjolfsson lost the ball in his own penalty area and Murphy hammered the ball into the net from the right-hand side of the penalty box.

    BBC: Iceland U21 2-1 Scotland U21

  • Boston's last chance ended when Pierce lost the ball out of bounds as he was receiving a pass with 7.1 seconds left.

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  • The notoriously nervy Holt looked to have lost the plot when he careered the cue ball off a cushion into the pack of reds at high speed.

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  • The shootout, created by former Israeli referee Yosef Dagan after Israel lost a tied, 1968 Olympic quarterfinal by drawing lots, reduces soccer to its most basic component: Kicking a ball into the net.

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  • Instead, he chose to run it across his own penalty area and lost control with a heavy touch, allowing Ireland to slip the ball into an empty net.

    BBC: Hull 2-2 Man City

  • Heorhi Kazulka, a forestry official who lost his job because he refused to play ball, is waging an online battle to publicise the park's destruction.

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  • Koumas, who manager John Toshack had identified as his main playmaker now Ryan Giggs has retired, lost the ball inside his own half, giving striker Kevin Kuranyi a clear run at the retreating Wales defence.

    BBC: Wales 0-2 Germany

  • Mark Jones should have touched down with nine minutes left to put the Scarlets within a sniff of a losing bonus point, but the Wales wing lost control of the ball as he reached for the line.

    BBC: Scarlets 21-38 Glasgow

  • Zamalek then hardly lost the ball for the rest of the first half, apart from a nervous few moments on 24 minutes when Mazembe striker Lofo found himself unmarked in the Zamalek penalty area, but saw his shot well saved by Abdelwahed.

    BBC: Zamalek canter to final

  • However, the ball was handled in a goalmouth scramble and the opportunity was lost.

    BBC: Sport - St Johnstone 0-3 Motherwell

  • Italy once again lost control of the ball at the base after Bergamasco had been sucked into a ruck and Haskell's flick saw Ellis scamper 20m to the line and dive over for an unconverted try.

    BBC: England 36-11 Italy

  • The Irish visitors adopted a more conservative approach throughout the half, but were denied a try by the video referee after sight of the ball was lost, with Steve Borthwick obscuring the view of it on the goal-line.

    BBC: Saracens 23-25 Leinster

  • They paid the price for failing to make the most of their pressure when Smith restored New Zealand's lead, going over in the left-hand corner from Ma'a Nonu's despite the suggestion he may have lost control of the ball as he touched down.

    BBC: New Zealand 20-10 Australia

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