December 16, 2013, on a boiling hot Perth Sunday, with cracks so big on a Day 4 WACA pitch that Tony Greig would’ve been at half-mast and lost a couple of sets of keys in the process, England were sent in to chase 504 just to keep the Ashes series alive heading on to the Boxing Day Test a week later…

Then, with the first ball of the England innings, Ryan Harris proceeds to produce one of the greatest combinations of swing and seam bowling ever seen, straight onto the top of the future Sir Alastair Cook’s off-stump.

In a series dominated by Mitchell Johnson, the Harris to Cook delivery was the most memorable dismissal of all 100 English wickets that series – The near perfect line to miss the crack, damn near perfect length, inswing, the straighten up off the new ball shine, then the late movement on to the off stump bail.

UNPLAYABLE.

A ball so good that in 2020, ESPNCricinfo’s staff writers voted it as the best ball through 2000 to 2020, above even Shane Warne’s brutal turner to Andrew Strauss in 2005, Andrew Flintoff to Jacques Kallis in 2008, and Mohammad Asif’s awesome incutter to VVS Laxman in 2006.