Posted by Ian! Look down! It’s right there in front of you!
Here we see Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell and Matt Prior desperately searching for the ball while Mahela Jayawardene and Tillekeratne Dilshan complete an all-run hundred for Jayawardene.
England weren’t to find the ball again for three straight days and all the while Jayawardene and Dilshan were running and running.
As the bowler who’d delivered the ball, Matthew Hoggard’s bowling figures were particularly poor in this Test.
This would never happen with a pink ball.
The red ball is easily mistaken for zebra dung.