Sentence examples for decisive ball from inspiring English sources

Updated at 4.35pm BST 4.28pm BST More exchanges - this is looking like the decisive ball of the frame.

The decisive ball jagged into Tendulkar before brushing the inside edge of his bat and knocking back the middle stump.

Then again, for every sadly infrequent display of sportsmanship, there are events like Thierry Henry's clear, and decisive hand ball in France's World Cup qualifying playoff against Ireland in November 2009.

Yet shorn of an injured Jan Koller and with an isolated Baros unable to shake off the attentions of an excellent Fabio Cannavaro, the Czechs were unable to muster a decisive final ball.

Tellingly, Yaya Toure was City's only attacking outlet before the break, twice causing the Real defence problems after running at them from deep positions but failing to find a decisive final ball.

But Wigan could not find a decisive final ball, illustrated by the fact they have scored only 11 goals at home this season and have not recorded a league victory at the DW since August.

D'Antoni wants his players to be decisive with the ball.

Nothing unusual happened, apart from the decisive goal: the ball bounced off the shoulder of the Oberhausen defender Marinko Miletic into his own team's net.

He is more decisive with the ball and more confident without it, a 25-year-old in his fourth pro season whose best football, the Dolphins insist, is yet to come.

And then will come the decisive moment, a ball sent into the penalty area, a well-timed leap, a swivel of the head and a thrust of the neck.

Andrew Bishop's break down the middle proved decisive and the ball eventually found its way out to Fussell, who crossed in the corner.