Australia captain Tim Paine has revealed he was so desperate for the toilet during the tourists' Ashes victory over England at Old Trafford he soiled himself.
The Aussie wicketkeeper was behind the stumps with his side needing just one wicket to retain the urn in the fourth Test.
As the overs ticked down and the clouds rolled in, Paine was reluctant to take any time out of the game with the urn at stake.
So he squatted and did his business before Josh Hazelwood removed Craig Overton to retain the Ashes for Australia.
Speaking on the Keeping It Real podcast, Paine said: "I was feeling a little bit ill and there were some big, dark clouds rolling in over the grandstand and we only had about seven overs left and obviously we needed that one wicket.
"(There were) No drinks breaks left, umpires starting to talk to each other about (bad) light.
"I just had a horrible feeling that I needed to go to the toilet… it was (a) number two and so I basically just thought, 'Righto, can't waste any time, I'm gonna have to (go)'.
"I remember saying to Davey Warner, 'I'm actually going to have to do this', and did.
"Unfortunately, it was one of those moments where the crowd went quite quiet. Because I was a bit unwell, it was a bit runny and you could actually hear it hit the ground.
"That ball was bowled I think by Mitch Starc to big (Craig) Overton. Luckily he didn't edge it because myself and David Warner literally had tears in our eyes, we could not stop laughing."
"A number of the boys do know about it, I think probably all. Certainly the slips cordon were aware of it.
"Normally, obviously, you'd run off but, I'm not kidding, there were rain clouds everywhere, it was six or seven overs left, we were down on overs.
"I just thought they're (the umpires) going to call the game off here and we're going to get stitched-up, so I couldn't be running off the ground.
"I reckon JL (coach Justin Langer) would have knocked me out. Us wicketkeepers, it's what we tend to do for our team."
Podcast host and former Victoria cricketer Chuck Berry revealed he had been tipped off about the story, but the details were more grim than he expected.
"That's better than I thought because my spy told me that he actually p***ed himself, but Painey's gone one step further and said he actually s*** himself," Berry said.
Paine replied: "Chuck, if I tell you the honest truth, the p*** was about six overs before that."
Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff reacted to the story on talkSPORT, jokingly calling for Paine to be banned for 18 months.
"You can go off the field for a wee," he said. "I learnt this when I was 11 years old playing for Lancashire Under-11s at Liverpool cricket club.
"I didn't know you could leave the field. I stood at slip and I wet my pants, not a number two.
"But an adult? The captain of Australia? Dropping one off in his pants in an Ashes Test match at Old Trafford? This is just not acceptable behaviour.
"I can handle the ball-tampering. They got carried away. This lad, this is just disgusting. Absolutely disgusting, Tim Paine.
"I'm saying 18-month ban. Ban him."
