Because cricket.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) decided to celebrate the start of the NatWest T20 Blast competition by doing something a bit special last week.
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The cricket board commissioned Sent Into Space to send a cricket ball out of this world.
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The ball was propelled into the upper stratosphere using a metrological balloon.
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It lifted off from Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham and was later retrieved in Newbury, Berkshire.
It reached an altitude of 110,000ft, at temperatures around -54C.
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