Watch: During a County Championship 2023 Division One match at the Kia Oval, Josh Bohannon collapsed on the pitch, laughing, after a course of inept all-round cricket.

Lancashire captain Keaton Jennings opened batting with Luke Wells after Surrey won the toss and opted to bowl. Sam Curran snared Wells in the fifth over, which brought Josh Bohannon to the crease.

Lancashire reached 28-1 after 10 overs when Rory Burns replaced Curran with Jordan Clark.

Not too long afterwards, Clark tried to bowl a bouncer. Unfortunately, while he pitched the ball short, he released it a fraction of a second too late, and the ball ballooned in the air after pitching.

As it descended in a mesmerising arc, outside the off stump, Bohannon realised he would seldom get an easier ball to put away for four. He went for a wide slog towards cover point… but missed the ball completely.

“I am so glad this is television and not radio, so you could actually see that,” quipped the laughing commentator. “Trying to describe what happened would have been ludicrous.”

At least Ben Foakes did his job efficiently as the ball rolled towards him innocuously.

Wicketkeeper Phil Salt helped Lancashire recover from 119-5 to post 274 against Clark (4-47) and Sean Abbott (4-71). Surrey then became 107-5 before Will Jacks (64), Curran (52), and Abbott (87 not out) took them to 360 as Will Williams claimed 3-86.

Yet again the Lancashire top order caved in, this time against Daniel Worrall (3-69). This time Williams (61) and Salt (54) lifted them from 154-5 to 293. Chasing 208, Surrey were 57-5 at stumps on day three. Tom Bailey (4-34) has done most of the damage.

Watch Jordan Clark’s ball, and Josh Bohannon’s swing, miss, and response:

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