Zing Bails That Simply Won't Fall

The flickering zing bails are expected to be heavier with the lights built into them. But it has meant that there is a real situation where the bowlers...

- Sreelata S. Yellamrazu

If the bowlers ever needed validation that the game was skewed in the favor of the batsmen. David Warner’s reprieve of Jasprit Bumrah for the fifth time that the bails refused to fall off, giving off the idea that perhaps not much thought has been put into it for it to become one of the major issues at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

One of the mysteries plaguing cricket circles recently began in the very first match when Quinton De Kock was as surprised as the bowler, Adil Rashid, when the ball hit the stumps but the bails did not come off. While the batsman had another life, it appears the zing bails are living a charmed life, having captured headlines as many as five times in the two weeks old ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.