It's a moment in Australian cricket history so scandalous, perhaps all we can do is laugh.
And the rest of the cricket world obliged with a relentless ambush of jokes at our expense, news.com.au reports.
No one was cheekier than this young red-headed South African fan, who waited patiently on the boundary during day four of the third Test before asking Nathan Lyon to sign a piece of sandpaper.
He wasn't the only cheeky bugger in the Cape Town crowd.