Cricket ball

Cricket balls were the traditionally red balls used in the game of cricket.

They were made of leather. (COMIC: The Forgotten)

Other information

 * 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. (TV: The Ark in Space)


 * The Fourth Doctor drew inspiration from a cricket ball to avoid the destruction of the TARDIS when colliding with a large planetary body. (TV: 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, catching the ball as it bounced back, and letting the its momentum propel him back to the doors of the TARDIS. (TV: Four to Doomsday)


 * The Doctor had a Cricket ball on him while in Amsterdam. (TV: Arc of Infinity)


 * The Seventh 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. (PROSE: 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. (COMIC: 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 Fifth Doctor at a party at Lord Cranleigh's estate. (COMIC: Time & Time Again)


 * The Fifth Doctor saved Tegan Jovanka's life by throwing a cricket ball at the Raston Warrior Robot threatening her. The impact was just enough to throw the robot's aim so that the javelin it fired missed. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)


 * In his tenth incarnation the Doctor, who had made himself into a human, managed to correctly throw a cricket ball to start a chain of events to save a mother and her baby from a falling piano. (TV: Human Nature)


 * In his eleventh incarnation, the Doctor kept a cricket ball in the TARDIS drawing room. (GAME: TARDIS)

His eleventh used a cricket ball, to show and Amy, Rory and himself that he didn't have a proper body. This led to the hypothesis that he wanted to annoy them because they had proper bodies. (TV: Amy's Choice).