Five minutes later, Gareth Bale seized a seemingly innocuous square ball and spectacularly curled it past Hart.
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Baines' square ball should have been cleared by Stephen Jordan but Camara pounced on his half-hearted clearance to deflect past Weaver.
Agbonlahor picked the ball out on the right and cut back into the box before threading a square ball to Gardner who slotted home from close range.
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Sutton had a great chance to put Motherwell two up but he sliced the ball 12 yards out after Clarkson's square ball bobbled on the uneven surface.
But when Yakubu hit a square ball to Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, the Russian's left-footed volley from distance was hit with tremendous timing, and only just disappeared over the top of Cesar's crossbar.
Within seconds Derby should have been level after Stephen Pearson ended a mazy run into the Coventry penalty box with a square ball towards Dickov but the striker inexplicably drilled his shot over from six yards.
Robinho cut inside before playing a square ball to Kaka, who delivered a beautifully weighted first-time pass that Luis Fabiano, in an onside position, collected before easing past Claudio Bravo and slotting into an empty net.
Celtic restored parity six minutes after the restart when Samaras sent a square ball to McGeady on the right-hand side of the Motherwell penalty area and the Republic of Ireland international curled in a superb shot past Ruddy.
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.
Altidore headed wide from a Garcia centre and then, having been played in by Bullard, opted to square the ball to nobody instead of shooting from a central position 12 yards out.
This was not going to happen in Time Square when the ball hit zero.
The pair were eventually separated in highly controversial fashion after Pietersen attempted to square cut a ball from left-arm spinner Benn which bounced more than he expected.
The final nail in Malawi's coffin came two minutes from the end, when Mayo - who could have claimed his hat-trick - instead unselfishly laid the ball square to Kauleza.
Bell, playing exactly the sort of shot he should have avoided, a square cut off a Morkel ball which had extra bounce, picked out gully where AB de Villiers pulled off an excellent catch.
He was struggling to get the ball off the square and after crawling to 11 from 23 deliveries, it was almost a blessed relief when he holed out on the cover-point boundary.
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Flower clipped the ball off his legs to deep square leg and attempted a second run, only to find himself short of his ground when Buttler fired the ball in for wicketkeeper Kieswetter to remove the bails.
Tonight, as midnight approaches, and the ball drops in Times Square to usher in 2013, many celebrants will be drinking champagne.
New Year's Eve is fast approaching, and workers in New York City are hard at work installing 32, 256 LED lights on the Times Square New Year's Eve ball.
He also recommends using a small square trampoline and throwing a weighted ball against it, twisting from side to side as the ball is thrown to engage the core.
More than one-quarter, or 28 percent of those surveyed to be exact, are going to miss the ball drop in Times Square compared to 14 percent who are heading out to a party.
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Have you ever tried to stuff a 9 year-old and 12 year-old into bed when the alternative is to watch the New Year Ball descend at Times Square (even if on TV)?
If anyone doubts how seriously those potentially impacted viewed the possibility of these very costly changes, just speak with any estate planner (me included) who feverishly worked on client gifting and transfers until the ball dropped over Times Square!
New York marked the occasion with the traditional New Year's Eve countdown and ball-drop over Times Square.
He also hit some thumping drives down the ground but on 44 he mis-timed a sweep and the ball looped gently to backward square.
It was from a penalty, conceded by Saints for not standing square at the play-the-ball, that Leeds eventually took the lead on 36 minutes.
However, after tea Lee began to work Atapattu over and he eventually hooked a short ball to Phil Jaques at deep square leg.
The Chelsea defence was caught square as Harewood latched onto a cute reverse ball from Reo-Coker and was able to follow-up his own shot that bounced following a save by Petr Cech.
Yuvraj reached his 30th ODI fifty from 46 balls with a huge six over square-leg as Panesar tried a quicker ball, and Gambhir completed his second ODI fifty before holing out to substitute fielder Andrew Gale at deep mid-wicket.
Borthwick claimed a second easy catch to give Bresnan his first Test wicket when Brendan Nash guided a ball travelling down the leg side to square-leg.
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