Batsmen will be looking to drop the ball into gaps for quick singles, so it's up to these two to close down the space quickly and force run-outs.
At that time the committee determined Woods hadn't broken any rules, but later met with Woods after he described on television where he stood to drop the ball.
Namely, why does HP always seem to drop the ball?
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In fact, switching from specialist to specialist may just provide more opportunities for doctors to "drop the ball, " he says.
However, the Sunderland goalkeeper got his bearings all wrong in trying to catch a Sodje header when he allowed the ball to drop on to the bar.
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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Berbatov's touch and movement - the Bulgarian was always happy to drop deep and pick up the ball - had always drawn the attention in a distinctly ordinary opening 45 minutes.
It was 1997 and on a whim we went into Manhattan to see the ball drop on New Year's Eve in Times Square.
Tim Howard was fortunate to see the ball drop out for a corner when he dropped Stephen McPhail's deep free-kick close to his own goal.
There was not much wrong with the 34-year-old's game as he hit 17 of 18 putting surfaces in regulation but struggled to make the ball drop.
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If the wind was against you, the ball would hold up allowing it to drop on the green and stop it rolling through.
On what had to be the coldest night in the history of the ball drop, we shivered next to each other waiting patiently, with a few thousand spectators, to get one year closer to the millennium.
In such cases, the rule book says the player must drop the ball "as nearly as possible" to the spot where he'd played his previous shot.
That led to a phone call from a television viewer claiming a violation and an investigation by the Augusta National rules committee, which ruled the drop was kosher then reconsidered when Woods confessed to dropping the ball in the wrong spot to gain an advantage.
Paul McShane's cross from the right was headed back across goal by Jan Venegoor of Hesselink and, after Martin Skrtel could only flick the ball up in the air, Geovanni waited for it to drop on to his left foot and directed it into the corner from 10 yards.
With a drop ball signaled by the referee, Shakhtar kicked the ball back to the Nordsjaelland goalkeeper, only for Adriano to intercept and score.
The new law, which applies to both ball carriers and defenders, will penalize players who drop their heads and deliver a forcible blow with the top of the helmet in the open field.
The Dutch official appeared to give the penalty, before reversing his decision and awarding a drop ball.
O'Gara was forced to attempt a drop-kick for the conversion after the wind blew the ball off the tee.
There was still time for Kevin Pietersen to drop a stinger from McCullum at gully off Anderson with the second new ball in the final over of the day but, in the end, the keeper and Ross Taylor (34no) survived to keep the hosts' slim hopes of survival alive.
It would have been more comfortable for Forest had Guy Moussi not shot straight at keeper Marton Fulop after being put through on goal in the first half, while McGoldrick inadvertantly hit the bar when he punted a drop ball back to Ipswich after play had been held up because of an injury to a home player.
Tempers frayed when Scott Brown, in a drop-ball, won a corner rather than returning the ball to Macedonia whose player had suffered a facial injury.
Dobson, the Super League Dream Team's scrum-half of the season, booted the conversion from the touchline, and then two of his kicks, one that forced Horne to needlessly shovel the ball out of play and another that brought about a drop-out, kept his side in the ascendancy.
With a good platform in front of the posts, Claassens elected to move the ball wide with Barkley perfectly placed behind him to try for a drop-goal, and they were unable to engineer another chance.
Lee Byrne was halted just short of the line after a fine run and the ball eventually came to Hook, who succeeded with his second attempt at a drop-goal.
Hernandez had produced a decidedly mixed display and had already missed a couple of drop-goal attempts but with eight minutes left he drilled the ball between the posts to put Stade Francais back in front once more.
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