He also scooped up the kibble, along with laptops, his car keys and some toiletries.

Intuitively, synthetic would refer to anything man-made, and that scoops up most fertilizers and pesticides that are produced in a lab from chemical ingredients.

The talent has always been there, those scoop shots too.

India's Rishabh Pant is caught by Nathan Lyon off the bowling of Scott Boland after a failed scoop shot on the third day of the fourth Test at the MCG, Melbourne.

He came in after Pant was caught at deep third man attempting to audaciously scoop Boland over his shoulder to fine leg and produced a far more measured innings.