Light it up: Zing bails not going anywhere

Captains of two of the world's leading cricket nations have questioned the use of light-up bails at the World Cup after a fifth incident in 10 days of a batsman getting bowled but the bails not being dislodged. 

India wicketkeeper MS Dhoni went as far as inspecting how firmly the stumps had been hammered into the pitch after David Warner edged one onto his foot and watched the ball roll back onto his stumps, only for the Zing bails to remain put.

It comes after West Indies' Chris Gayle, South Africa's Quinton De Kock, Sri Lanka's Dimuth Karunaratne and Bangladesh's Mohammad Saifuddin all had similar slices of good fortune. 

The International Cricket Council have insisted the Zing bails, originally developed by an Adelaide-based technology company, are no heavier than their regular wooden predecessors.

But both Virat Kohli and Aaron Finch raised issues with them on Sunday. 

"This is not something which you expect at the international level," Kohli said after leading India to a 36-run win over Australia at The Oval.

"I think with the technology it's great. The lights come on and you know it's very precisely when you actually make something happen with the stumps. 

"But you literally have to smash the stumps really hard - and I'm saying that as a batsman … and these are fast bowlers. These are not medium-pace bowlers."

Four of the five incidents during this tournament occurred on chop-ons or deflections off the batter, meaning the ball hit the stumps at a significantly lower pace.

Gayle's was the exception, with the West Indian bowled by Mitchell Starc bowling at around the 150kph mark. The noise was so loud that he was given out caught behind, only for it to be overturned when the review showed it had in fact clipped his off-stump and not his bat.

There was however a reminder in Sunday's second women's ODI between England and West Indies that the same issue arises from time to time with old-fashioned wooden stumps, when Tammy Beaumont was lucky to survive being bowled by spinner Afy Fletcher in Worcester.

Kohli said India suspected the stump that spared Warner had been knocked in too hard into the surface, but Dhoni found no such issue.

"MS said we checked the stump hole, as well," Kohli continued. "The stump was not in very hard, it was actually loose. So I don't know what's actually wrong with the stump, the outer coating of the stump.

"I have no idea what's going on … if the stump is too thick or too rigid - I have no idea. 

"No team would like seeing stuff like that when you actually bowl a good ball and then you don't get the guy out … I haven't seen that happen (as) many times in the past."