After finishing their first innings at 311, West Indies ripped through the Australian batting order and reduced them to 54/5 in the first 12 overs. West Indies showcased a brilliant fightback after facing early heat from the Australian bowlers, and it was their middle and lower order, which took them to a fighting first-innings score.

West Indies bowlers Kemar Roach and Alzarri Joseph put up early pressure on the Australian batting lineup and removed big names such as Travis Head, Steve Smith, and Marnus Labuschagne cheaply back in the dressing room. After losing the first five wickets, the hosts were on the verge of losing another wicket, when on the first ball of the 15th over, an incoming delivery from Shamar Joseph went on to hit the bails of the stumps, but it didn’t come out of the groove.

Shamar Joseph was able to bring the ball back into Australian batsman Alex Carey, through which he was completely beaten. Carey tried to play the ball towards the offside, however, it created a gap between the pad and bat, through which the ball went clipping the bails of the stumps. However, at first, it didn’t look like there was any contact with the ball and the stumps, though, through the snickometer it was confirmed that there was contact. Notably, the bail even rotated but it did come off and the incident surprised many.

Watch- West Indies miss out on a well-deserved wicket as the bails don’t fall against Alex Carey

The bail spun in its groove – but didn’t fall! 😱#AUSvWI pic.twitter.com/t6XgOibdqr

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 26, 2024

As per the rules, the bails have to fall from the stumps after which the batsman will be considered out. However, there have been many instances wherein the balls have hit the bails of the stumps but didn’t come out, which has saved the batsman many times.

West Indies finished Day 1 at 266/8 after an early debacle of the top order. West Indies batsmen Joshua Da Silva and Kavem Hodge added 149 runs for the sixth wicket and brought their team’s innings back on track.

Kevin Sinclair played a major role in taking West Indies to over 300 runs on Day 2 and played innings of 50 runs off 98 balls.

In reply to West Indies’ first innings score, Australia lost their first wicket for 6 runs when Steve Smith walked back to the dressing room for 6 runs. Marnus Labuschagne and Cameron Green as well were dismissed cheaply for 3 and 8 runs respectively. Australia were hit by a major blow when Travis Head, who was the Player of the Match, in the previous game, was dismissed for a duck.

Soon after the early damage, Australian opener Usman Khawaja is the only batsman who has been steady at the crease and is trying to bring Australia’s innings back on track with Alex Carey.

Australia won the first Test by ten wickets and will be hoping to continue their brilliant performance in Test cricket and win another Test series by whitewashing the opponent. Australia defeated Pakistan in their previous Test series by 3-0.