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December 5, 2007Posted on 12/05/2007 in Australian cricket
Gilly’s ball saved after backyard burial
While the world – ok, ok, the public relations department of Cricket Australia – was begging for the ball Adam Gilchrist hit for his 100th Test six to be handed back, it was actually buried in a backyard in Melbourne. According to the Herald Sun it was underground for a week - check out the picture of the burial scene - after flying back from Bellerive Oval.
Cricket fanatic John put the ball in a box of socks, then dug a hole and buried it inside an ice-cream container. "I thought it would be a bit rough - more than rough, a tragedy - for the ball to be on someone's mantelpiece," he said.
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