Adam Gilchrist has appealed to the Australian public to help him find the ball he smashed his 100th Test six with.
The Australian became the first player to strike 100 sixes in Test match cricket when he belted Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan over the fence during the second Test at Bellerive Oval on Saturday.
The only problem was that Gilchrist hit the ball so far that it sailed outside the ground and into a nearby street and has not been found since.
The umpires were forced to use a replacement ball for the rest of the Australian innings but Gilchrist later appealed to anyone who may have found the ball to return it to him.
"I'm not a massive collector of memorabilia but I think there's probably a few little bits and pieces every cricketer has stashed away that means something to them and that's a unique little item and I'd love to get it back," Gilchrist told a news conference.
"There aren't many things that you do in life that you're the only person ever to have done it, so with that in mind it would be nice to have the ball that notched that hundred.
"It's not a milestone you ever set out to achieve but it's definitely unique."
