In the English Premier League a penalty increases a team's chances of winning a match by 18%.
After achieving independence as a nation, Cape Verde had to wait 17 years before winning a competitive match.
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Each of the terms in (1) through (3) above combine into an overall percent chance of each club winning a single match playoff.
"I think the players have done superbly to put themselves in a winning position in a Test match after four sessions of play having lost the first day completely, " he commented.
Winning a Heineken Cup match away from home is something Edinburgh, who also face Guinness Premiership champions Wasps in Pool 2, have not managed since 2004, the only time they got beyond the pool stages.
After the five-a-side tournament, officers will play the winning club in a showcase match.
In 2009, the team finally won through to the final qualifying round for the ICC's 50-over World Cup tournament, scraping through after winning a rain-affected match against Uganda.
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Sharma came within inches of winning the match with a six, reaching his fifty from 44 balls, as the victory was reached with heavy rain about to descend, and while this match may not have tested India, their rivals will know there is much more to come from them.
Jacques Kallis (13) fell soon after, but man-of-the-match De Villiers and Amla compiled a brilliant match-winning stand.
The 11-time grand slam champion is on a 15-match winning run having taken titles in Sao Paulo, Acapulco and Indian Wells and enjoyed a comfortable win, despite going 2-0 down in the second set.
In France , Marseille suffered a shock 4-1 defeat at Valenciennes as its six-match winning streak came to a dramatic end.
We came close to winning that match, playing a very adventurous style of rugby.
Wicketkeeper Davies scored a superb 87 at Chester-le-Street as England posted a match-winning total of 274 for six.
But Ryan ten Doeschate of Essex and ODI debutant Tom Cooper built a match-winning partnership of 158 runs.
Raj strained her knee while fielding after playing what proved to be a match-winning innings of 91 not out.
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Smith and Chanderpaul shared a match-winning partnership of 55 off 64 balls before Chanderpaul fell for 24 just before the end.
Neither Mike Hussey nor Cameron White were able to play a match-winning innings as Sri Lanka remained dominant with some unerringly accurate bowling.
Four days after leading his new county to the FP Trophy final with a match-winning ton against Gloucestershire, Joyce was bizarrely caught sweeping.
In a well-rehearsed line-out routine, number eight Filo Tiatia fed fellow Kiwi Justin Marshall and the scrum-half ran through for a match-winning try.
Bell hit a match-winning century for Warwickshire in Saturday's CB40 final.
And Sara McGlashan (65 not out) and Amy Satterthwaite (59) then shared a match-winning stand of 109 as the tourists reached 178-4 with 3.2 overs to spare.
The drastic tactic change worked in India's favour as captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh put on a match-winning 108-run seventh-wicket partnership, helping the home side to a 382-run lead.
Afterwards, New Zealand boss Henry made it very clear that Wales have been worked out - predictable in attack and predictably coughing up enough errors to turn into a match-winning points total.
Andy took seven wickets against England and featured in a match-winning stand with Michael Bevan, so it would have been a tough call for the selectors if Jason had regained his fitness.
But the South African has a reputation for keeping his nerve, most notably when he bowled a match-winning double-wicket maiden for Worcestershire to beat Lancashire in the 2003 C and G Trophy semi-final.
He has only scored one goal since September but made a match-winning contribution as a substitute against Tranmere on 31 January and he is hoping that performance will be the platform to build on.
The all-rounder hit a match-winning 161 to put Australia 1-0 in front in Melbourne two weeks ago and immediately returned to his hometown of Ipswich, west of Brisbane, to see the destruction caused by the floods.
He gave the selectors almost no option but to pick him after hitting a match-winning century in the Carib Challenge final after his first season for Jamaica, though it was not easy for him at the start.
South Africa have a match-winning kicker of their own in full-back Percy Montgomery, who is the leading points scorer in the current World Cup, while England will need to be wary of the mercurial Boks wing pair of Bryan Habana and JP Pietersen.
She claimed figures of 3-6 from four overs in England's victory in the ICC Women's World Twenty20 final against New Zealand at Lord's last year and a match-winning 5-22 in the second one-day international against India in Bangalore in February which propelled her to third in the ICC women's bowling rankings.
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