The one ploy remaining was the short ball, and Stuart Broad was entrusted with that, but the soft ball, slow pitch and dominance of the batsmen soon put an end to that, hook shots played down with rolled wrists and great control.

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Think of the labrum as a ring of soft tissue that holds the ball of the femur, or thighbone, snugly in the hip joint's socket.

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Almond's band Soft Cell, which he co-founded with musician David Ball, was one of the biggest-selling acts of the early 1980s.

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You'll have a soft, stick-to-your-fingers dough that will ball up around the paddle or beaters.

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McLaren made a great break through the middle and, having been held up, laid the ball back to Knight who side-footed home a soft shot for his first goal in a Wednesday shirt.

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The "V" in ProV1, for example, derives from "veneer, " which was the lab term for the ball's primary innovation when it debuted in 2000, a soft but durable cover.

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