Zing bails have become the talking point of ICC World Cup 2019 with a lot of mystery and dismay surrounding it. After a fifth such incident occurred in the ODI match between India and Australia, the question on everybody’s lips is whether the hi-tech bails are too heavy for a ball to dislodge?
Zing bails have become the talking point of ICC World Cup 2019 with a lot of mystery and dismay surrounding it. After a fifth such incident occurred in the ODI match between India and Australia, the question on everybody’s lips is whether the hi-tech bails are too heavy for a ball to dislodge?
Five times in the opening ten days of the World Cup, the ball has hit the stumps but failed to remove the bails, giving the batsman a lucky reprieve.
Opener David Warner was had lady luck on his side when the ‘zing’ bails (which contain lights that flash when the ball hit the wicket ) were unmoved despite his off stump being clipped by a 140+ Jasprit Bumrah delivery.
It all happened in the first over when a short of a length delivery climbed onto the batsman and Warner hopped across for a defensive push. An inside edge led the ball roll back onto the leg-stump but the stumps remained firm.
This was the fifth instance of the ball hitting the stumps and bails not falling-
A Rashid – Q de Kock, Oval
T Boult – D Karunaratne, Cardiff
M Starc – C Gayle, Nottingham
B Stokes – M Saifuddin, Cardiff
J Bumrah – D Warner, Oval
So far, 33 batsmen have been bowled out in this World Cup so far. 5 times the bails have neglected to fall off and that is an 87% success rate for bails to fall off.
The rash of incidents has led many to wonder whether the bails are too heavy to fall when the ball only grazes the stumps rather than smashing into them.
Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar expressed disbelief on Warner’s reprieve and wrote on Twitter, “What’s going on?? In my entire life, I have not seen 5 instances like this, let alone in the space of 10 days or a tournament.”
Despite these incidents, their use will not be reviewed by the ICC. “The zing bails perform exactly as the regular ones and, in fact, are lighter than those used by umpires when it is windy,” an ICC spokesman was quoted as saying by telegraph.co.uk. “The lights make any movement more noticeable,” he added. In IPL 2019, there were similar such incidents of zing bails not moving.
What the rule book says:
According to the ICC, Law 29.1.1 is very clear on what constitutes a dismissal. “The wicket is put down if a bail is completely removed from the top of the stumps, or a stump is struck out of the ground,” it states.
Five times in the opening ten days of the World Cup, the ball has hit the stumps but failed to remove the bails, giving the batsman a lucky reprieve.
Opener David Warner was had lady luck on his side when the ‘zing’ bails (which contain lights that flash when the ball hit the wicket ) were unmoved despite his off stump being clipped by a 140+ Jasprit Bumrah delivery.
It all happened in the first over when a short of a length delivery climbed onto the batsman and Warner hopped across for a defensive push. An inside edge led the ball roll back onto the leg-stump but the stumps remained firm.
This was the fifth instance of the ball hitting the stumps and bails not falling-
A Rashid – Q de Kock, Oval
T Boult – D Karunaratne, Cardiff
M Starc – C Gayle, Nottingham
B Stokes – M Saifuddin, Cardiff
J Bumrah – D Warner, Oval
So far, 33 batsmen have been bowled out in this World Cup so far. 5 times the bails have neglected to fall off and that is an 87% success rate for bails to fall off.
The rash of incidents has led many to wonder whether the bails are too heavy to fall when the ball only grazes the stumps rather than smashing into them.
Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar expressed disbelief on Warner’s reprieve and wrote on Twitter, “What’s going on?? In my entire life, I have not seen 5 instances like this, let alone in the space of 10 days or a tournament.”
Despite these incidents, their use will not be reviewed by the ICC. “The zing bails perform exactly as the regular ones and, in fact, are lighter than those used by umpires when it is windy,” an ICC spokesman was quoted as saying by telegraph.co.uk. “The lights make any movement more noticeable,” he added. In IPL 2019, there were similar such incidents of zing bails not moving.
What the rule book says:
According to the ICC, Law 29.1.1 is very clear on what constitutes a dismissal. “The wicket is put down if a bail is completely removed from the top of the stumps, or a stump is struck out of the ground,” it states.