<p>According to a report in 'The Daily Telegraph', the rock, was a few inches long and up to 4.5 billion years old.<br /><br />England player Luke Wright was batting with Monty Panesar during the match when the black, five-inch rock came crashing down.<br /><br />"We were sitting at the boundary edge when all of a sudden, out of a blue sky, we saw this small dark object hurtling towards us. It landed five yards inside the boundary and split into two pieces," the newspaper quoted an eyewitness as saying.<br /><br />"One piece bounced up and hit me in the chest and the other ended up against the boundary board. It came across at quite a speed – if it had hit me full on it could have been very interesting," the spectator joked.<br /><br />Dr Matthew Genge, a meteorite expert at Imperial College, London, said if found true, it would be the first meteorite to strike Britain since 1992.<br /><br />"If this turns out to be a meteorite it's very exciting and would be the first fall in the UK since 1992. Potentially it contains secrets as to the formation of our solar system," he said.</p>
<p>According to a report in 'The Daily Telegraph', the rock, was a few inches long and up to 4.5 billion years old.<br /><br />England player Luke Wright was batting with Monty Panesar during the match when the black, five-inch rock came crashing down.<br /><br />"We were sitting at the boundary edge when all of a sudden, out of a blue sky, we saw this small dark object hurtling towards us. It landed five yards inside the boundary and split into two pieces," the newspaper quoted an eyewitness as saying.<br /><br />"One piece bounced up and hit me in the chest and the other ended up against the boundary board. It came across at quite a speed – if it had hit me full on it could have been very interesting," the spectator joked.<br /><br />Dr Matthew Genge, a meteorite expert at Imperial College, London, said if found true, it would be the first meteorite to strike Britain since 1992.<br /><br />"If this turns out to be a meteorite it's very exciting and would be the first fall in the UK since 1992. Potentially it contains secrets as to the formation of our solar system," he said.</p>