It is common in cricket for bowlers to take home the ball with which they achieve any special feat after the game. Yet, Australian off-spinner
Nathan Lyon shared he had to leave that opportunity for the ball with which he took his 300th Test wicket. It was the infamous Cape Town Test of the 2018 Australia-South Africa series. Unfortunately, Steve Smith, David Warner, and Cameron Bancroft were involved in ball-tampering during South Africa’s second innings, resulting in their suspensions.

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph recently, Lyon recalled, “(Kagiso) Rabada stumped was my 300th wicket. It was at the Cape Town Test. I haven’t seen that ball since, unfortunately. Yeah, I think with everything that happened that game, they took it to have a look at it all,” he said via Indian Express. “It was actually David Boon. I bumped into him on the balcony of the team hotel in the Covid summer of 2020-21 and being an ICC match referee he reached out to them (the ICC) through his work and tried to find it, and apparently it’s gone missing. Don’t know where it is. There’s been no more correspondence. It is what it is.”

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Meanwhile, Nathan Lyon applauded his wife’s incredible artwork with all his milestone balls and achievements on a wall at home and how the place for the 300th wicket remains empty as well.

“My wife has done an amazing piece of artwork where she’s put all the milestone balls or achievements on a wall at home which looked pretty special. To see the success I’ve been able to have and understand that all the hard work can pay off. I’ve collected from the start,” Nathan Lyon said in the same interaction. “It goes back a long way but it’s something I’m proud about and now my girls are starting to get old enough to ask questions about what’s this and what’s that. I am grateful for that but at the end of the day I guess I can just throw a ball in there and say it’s the 300th and no one will know, will they? (At the moment) it’s just a blank space.”