There were also incidents where the ball lodged in the space between the flap and the wicket-keeper's leg.

Christopher Ray began to choke and turn blue after the candy-coated ball lodged in his voice box.

But Dar hit it straight on, and the ball lodged inside the tube with a satisfying explosion.

Even the ball lodged in the skull shrank, loosened, dropped out.

Suddenly he is choking and gasping for breath, the ball having lodged in his throat.

But two years ago, a ball lodged in his thigh, he had waited to be killed by Covenant scouts.

With a penalty stroke, he would have dropped a new ball within two club lengths of the area under where the ball had lodged.

And the wheel still turning but the ball now firmly lodged in its slot.

He fired again, and felt the lesser kick which told him the ball had only lodged half-way down the barrel.

Brooks hit another errant tee shot well into the left rough at No. 9, and the ball lodged near the base of a tree.