The 100 arrived in the 30th over, at which point England were 146-1, Dhoni infuriating his captain when assuming a lofted drive would go for four and not bothering to run, only for the ball to plug in the dewy outfield to allow only a single.

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One proposes that the pore closes when a plug shaped like a ball and chain obstructs the hole.

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The plug-in provides vision detection by automatically coordinating the camera and ball position, distance, orientation and more.

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