It's little thought about, but cricketers spend a fair bit of time in the air, and not just on flights. The exertions of cricket demand the occasional suspension of gravity, be it diving for a catch, leaping at the end of a run-up or levitating a la David Blaine, as Daryl Mitchell did at Headingley last year.
Fans also must defy gravity to get the best spots at the stadium, like this roof jumper in Lahore in the picture below.
York and England cricketer Mary Johnson demonstrates that what men can do women can do better, and in a skirt.
There's a good chuckle to be had watching grown men, and famous cricketers like David Lloyd at that, play at leapfrog in training.
But it's a vital skill in match situations so you can do what Jos Buttler had to do at the T20 World Cup.
Ever wonder what it looks like from the ball's point of view to see a fielder lunge to grab you? Dwayne Bravo gives us a taste.
Forward short-leg fielders have arguably the most dangerous positions in the field, and it's imperative that they be expert contortionists so they're not brained by a belligerent shot. Here, Gautam Gambhir illustrates "the armadillo".
There's been much talk about the unorthodoxy of Bazball and where Brendon McCullum learned his freewheeling cricket ways, but no one credits his son Riley for kickstarting the revolution.
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Don't want to be caught pitch-invading? You'd better be a champion hurdler or you could lose your bails.
Usman Khawaja may be the only current cricketer with a pilot's license, but all batters must learn to fly.
No jet fuel? Adrenaline will work just as well, ask Irfan Pathan.
Sometimes you must take to the air for a good cause. Tim Farris, lead guitarist of INXS, mortally afraid of heights and flying, volunteered to sky-dive his way into a charity cricket match at Manly Oval in 2001, clad in full cricket gear.
Fast bowlers in their run-up are poetry in motion, all windmilling arms and legs. Or, if you're Shoaib Akhtar, a pretzel.
And sometimes you make the flight all right, but you can't stick the landing, as Pat Cummins recently found out in the process of giving himself a black eye at Lord's.
