He's going round the changing room with a pen in his hand telling all the lads to sign his match ball.
The umpires ruled Pakistan were guilty of doctoring the match ball and awarded England five penalty runs and let them choose a replacement ball.
On 20 August 2006 the match was abandoned on day four when Pakistan declined to take the field after tea after earlier being penalised for doctoring the match ball.
Iron keeper Murphy produced a superb double save to deny Bothroyd his hat-trick shortly after the restart when it looked as though the striker would be walking away with the match ball.
As well as battling with the high-altitude and the high Argentine ability, Etuhu says the match ball - which has come under heavy criticism since being unveiled by Adidas - makes things even more difficult.
As a scrum-half you can be doing your basics well and doing your job and you can be man of the match because the ball you get is fantastic.
Umar Gul warpped up the match with the first ball of the 45th over as he bowled last man Ashley Turner for a duck.
Some soccer teams wet the field before a match to make the ball roll faster, while baseball teams grow out grass to slow ground balls.
If he could go through a match without touching the ball much, Dave said he was happy because it meant the team was doing well and winning games.
El Salvador's Jaime Alas blasted a shot from some 25 yards out with about one minute left in the match, and the ball bounced off the hands of goalkeeper Sean Johnson before darting into the goal.
Bowling with a wet ball, with the match having been played entirely in heavy drizzle, Franklin delivered two no-ball beamers and was taken out of the attack after five balls.
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Clarke's attempt to get a winning single off the penultimate ball of the match was then thwarted.
Ryan Sidebottom bowled the ball of the match, a magical yorker to bowl Jacques Kallis, but it was a rare highlight.
An ECB investigation is also under way into the abandonment of their County Championship match against Kent without a ball being bowled.
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Earlier, Somerset lost Marcus Trescothick to the second ball of the match.
In the dying stages of the match, Craig pulled the ball back from close range and Moon sent it over the line to ensure victory for the visitors.
Chasing 203 for victory, the Outlaws needed 12 off the last over, but fell just short as Charlie Shreck was run out off the last ball of the match.
Lincolnshire beat Cambridgeshire with the very last ball of the match at Woodhall Spa, while opener Martyn Dobson was twice dropped by Dorset fielders on his way to an invaluable 85.
And with desperation setting in for Surrey, Smith bowled Matthew Spriegel before repeating the trick with the final ball of the match to dismiss Afzaal and finish with figures of 2-37.
Adam Gilchrist was trapped lbw by Kyle Mills on the third ball of the match and Chris Martin celebrated his first one-day match in five years by snapping up Simon Katich in his second over.
The first opportunity of the match came when a long ball from Chris Baird found Diomansy Kamara, who controlled on the edge of the six-yard box, swivelled and forced a good save low down from Carson.
The second goal for the Mambas came on the stroke of full time as man of the match when Nelinho drove the ball and Raharison failed to hold on, presenting an easy tap in for Fala-Fala.
Surrey elected to bat, but Jonathan Batty's golden duck to Tremlett from the fourth ball of the match meant Ramprakash was at the crease earlier than expected, and needed 18 balls to get off the mark.
Alastair Cook edged the second ball of the match, a perfectly placed delivery from Zaheer Khan and Matt Prior moved across his stumps at the rather and was given out by Aleem Dar in the fourth over.
The referee decided the advantage was over but Munster continued to probe and when man of the match Rua Tipoki flung the ball wide, Lesley Vainikolo could not pick off the interception and Howlett put Dowling over in the corner for a superb score.
Spain had possessed the ball for roughly two-thirds of its games, turning each match into a high-class version of keep-ball, and in the process, becoming the first team to turn passing the ball into a form of defense: Like a clock-eating drive in football, if Spain has the ball, its opponent can't score and the Spanish keep the ball so well that they barely give up any chances, let alone goals.
Despite having an extra man, it was London Irish's last hurrah and they finished the match with Steven Bachop scrambling the ball away from underneath his own posts.
With the pitch cutting up and the ball very greasy the match had become increasingly attritional as the half wore on but Toulouse sparked back into life immediately after the restart.
Saracens, back at Vicarage Road after "home" matches at Twickenham and Wembley, made an inauspicious start to the match with Alasdair Strokosch stealing their ball at the line-out before Lawson darted through to score.
Fiorentina showed a quality in terms of possession of the ball that we struggled to match at times.
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