New Zealand cricket icon Ian Smith has suggested there may have been an issue with the stumps at the Gabba after Alex Carey survived a remarkable incident.
At 5-72, Shamar Joseph forced a play and miss from Carey with a sound coming as it passed the bat.
West Indies then appealed but it was given out before Joseph urged captain Kraigg Brathwaite not to review because he believed it hit the stumps.
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Joseph's assumption was correct, with footage capturing the bail rotating but not dislodging from the stumps.
"The pressure has just pushed the bail into the groove ... wow, what a moment," Adam Gilchrist said on Fox Cricket.
"Extraordinary ... it spun it round ... that's astonishing, when it's your day, it's your day."
"So lucky," West Indies legend Brian Lara added before Mark Waugh said he'd "never seen that before".
The incident was a sliding doors moment for both sides with Carey going on to score 65 and keep Australia in the contest.
Later in the match Smith considered whether the height of the stump was an issue.
"Is there a possibility that right stump was lower than the other two? Then the angle of the bail made it stronger in terms of it's positioning," he said.
"Was it fractionally lower?
"I just wonder if the stumps were absolutely perfectly level."
Despite the dismay for the West Indies, England legend Michael Vaughan said the funny side.
"Let's be honest he was bowled," he laughed.
New Zealand cricket icon Ian Smith has suggested there may have been an issue with the stumps at the Gabba after Alex Carey survived a remarkable incident.
At 5-72, Shamar Joseph forced a play and miss from Carey with a sound coming as it passed the bat.
West Indies then appealed but it was given out before Joseph urged captain Kraigg Brathwaite not to review because he believed it hit the stumps.
LIVE UPDATES: All the action from Australian Open day 13
AS IT HAPPENED: Australia vs West Indies second Test, day two
READ MORE: Beaten Gauff denies distraction from opponent's act
Joseph's assumption was correct, with footage capturing the bail rotating but not dislodging from the stumps.
"The pressure has just pushed the bail into the groove ... wow, what a moment," Adam Gilchrist said on Fox Cricket.
"Extraordinary ... it spun it round ... that's astonishing, when it's your day, it's your day."
"So lucky," West Indies legend Brian Lara added before Mark Waugh said he'd "never seen that before".
The incident was a sliding doors moment for both sides with Carey going on to score 65 and keep Australia in the contest.
Later in the match Smith considered whether the height of the stump was an issue.
"Is there a possibility that right stump was lower than the other two? Then the angle of the bail made it stronger in terms of it's positioning," he said.
"Was it fractionally lower?
"I just wonder if the stumps were absolutely perfectly level."
Despite the dismay for the West Indies, England legend Michael Vaughan said the funny side.
"Let's be honest he was bowled," he laughed.
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