James Anderson has described the delivery which bowled Michael Clarke at Trent Bridge in 2013 as his favourite of a 20-year international career.
Anderson castled the Australia captain on the opening day of the Ashes series in Nottingham, with England going on to win a classic Test by 14 runs on the final afternoon.
Writing in his autobiography, Finding The Edge - currently being serialised in The Times - the Three Lions' leading Test wicket-taker recalled the importance of the scalp.
"The score is 22-2. Michael Clarke, the captain, is batting. He is the talisman for the team, by far their most in-form player, undeniably world-class, and we have targeted him as the big wicket to take," Anderson recalls.
"The ball is not swinging much so I am having to use different skills. I have been using a new delivery for me, the wobble seam. Bowling this, my fingers grip the ball a little looser and you hope the seam will scatter slightly in the air, rather than travel gun-barrel straight.
"As it leaves my fingers, it feels exactly as I want it to.
"Clarke offers to block the ball and, just as it had suggested to me on leaving my hand, it moves a fraction away from him. The absolute ideal fraction, not too little and not too much.
"There is a sound — so slight and acute — that I think it must be an outside edge to the wicketkeeper. As I see the slip cordon running off and Clarke tucking his bat under his arm to walk off, I notice as I run past that a bail has been dislodged. That sound was the stumps, not his bat. I’ve bowled him.
"Hearing the crowd all celebrating, pints thrown into the air and bodies falling over each other in joy, I point both hands at the stumps as I run past, in adrenalised shock.
"It’s my favourite ball — maybe because it isn’t one that initially came naturally to me, as if it were handed to my system. Instead, it’s something I had to work on, building it up over hours and hours of practice, working out how to move the ball when it wasn’t swinging dramatically and when I wasn’t bowling quickly, until one day, it just came out of me, as if it, too, was the most natural thing in the world."
Four days later, Anderson would deliver another classic Ashes moment at Trent Bridge, as Australia inched towards what had appeared an unlikely victory.
The visitors needed just 15 runs to win as the right-armer - who has taken more Test wickets in Nottingham than anyone else - made a decisive final intervention.
"I bowl an off cutter to Haddin, trying to vary the speed of the balls he is receiving since he is seeing it so well," he writes.
"He swings and misses, the ball going straight through to Prior. I hear nothing, but the slip cordon all jump around celebrating. Aleem Dar has heard nothing either and given it not out.
"I haven’t even had a conversation before Cooky has reviewed it. He has heard a noise. Haddin then walks up to me, saying he thinks he’s nicked it. You think you’ve what? He nods, in concession.
"Then there is the big screen, the tiniest of hot spots, the crowd roar, the overturning of the decision and I am running off into the distance, my whole team following me, a classic Ashes match won."
England's victory set them on course for a 3-1 series win over Australia - and a third successive triumph in cricket's oldest rivalry.
Anderson's match figures of 10/158 do not quite beat the 11/71 he recorded at Trent Bridge against Pakistan in 2010, but their importance cannot be overstated.
"I sit in my spot in the corner by the balcony in the dressing room. I don’t want to get up, I just want to sleep. I am mentally and physically drained, overwhelmed with relief," he writes of the aftermath of the first Test.
"It has hit me quite hard to have been so high, so tense for five days, so full of adrenaline, and now my body is charged with feeling it all.
"Then I think to myself, Wow, the ball wasn’t swinging, yet I found a way. I have taken ten wickets in one ball short of 56 overs.
"I’m told, just before I fall asleep in a dressing room full of people, cap over my eyes, that I’ve just overtaken Fred Trueman in the all-time wicket takers’ list."
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England Men return to Trent Bridge from Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 May, for a bank holiday weekend Test against Zimbabwe.