Cricket ball

A cricket ball was a spherical object, traditionally red in colour, used in the game of cricket.

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 * The Fourth Doctor gave Harry Sullivan a cricket ball to use in a failed attempt to deactivate the automatic guard system on Nerva Beacon. The cricket ball was destroyed. (DW: The Ark in Space)


 * The Fourth Doctor drew inspiration from a cricket ball to avoid destruction of the TARDIS when colliding with a large planetary body. (DW: The Horns of Nimon)


 * In his fifth incarnation the Doctor, while drifting aimlessly in space, propelled himself back to the TARDIS by throwing a cricket ball against the hull of Monarch's ship and letting the momentum of the ball propel him back to the doors of his ship. (DW: Four to Doomsday)
 * The Doctor used a Biodata pod disguised as a cricket ball to store the biodata of his Time Lord self, and later that of his human persona. (NA: Human Nature)


 * A perversion of the Event 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)