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A spinning cricket ball in air does not follow a parabolic trajectory

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A spinning cricket ball would have followed a parabolic trajectory has there been no air .
But because of air the magnus effect takes place . Hence , the spinning cricket ball deviates from its parabolic trajectory .
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