Cricket ball

A cricket ball was a particular game used in the game of cricket.

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• In his fifth incarnation, the Doctor, who at that time dressed as a cricket player, while drifting aimlessly in space, propelled himself back to the TARDIS by throwing a cricket ball against the hull of the Monarch's ship and letting the momentum of the ball propel him back to the doors of his ship. (DW: Four to Doomsday)

• A perversion of the Events Synthesizer caused a cricket ball in the 1980s to exchange places with an army hand grenade at a game in Stockbridge. (DWM: The Tides of Time)

• To reassemble the Key to Time for a second time, Ace, retrieved one of its segments, disguised as one of the cricket balls hit out of bounds by the Doctor at a party at Lord Cranleigh's estate. (DWM: Time & Time Again)

• In his tenth incarnation, the Doctor, who had made himself into a human, showed some un-human (to, perhaps, show that he was still partly Time Lord) traits by correctly throwing a cricket ball to start a chain of events to save a mother and her baby from a falling piano. (DW: Human Nature/The Family of Blood)

Though wholly human, Smith displayed some skills unusual for a Human, such as his intuition that a cricket ball, correctly thrown, would start a chain reaction of events that would save a woman and her baby from being crushed by a falling piano, perhaps a lingering trace of his Time Lord self. (DW: Human Nature/The Family of Blood)