Watch: Alex Carey survives rare sequence of events even as the ball flicks the stumps

Australian wicketkeeper-batter Alex Carey was involved in a bizarre incident on Tuesday (March 22) in the series-deciding third Test against Pakistan in Lahore. Carey survived a rare sequence of play, including a flick on the stumps without the bails falling off. Given out on the field, Carey was later reprieved through the DRS where a […]
 
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Watch: Alex Carey survives rare sequence of events even as the ball flicks the stumps

Australian wicketkeeper-batter Alex Carey was involved in a bizarre incident on Tuesday (March 22) in the series-deciding third Test against Pakistan in Lahore. Carey survived a rare sequence of play, including a flick on the stumps without the bails falling off.

Given out on the field, Carey was later reprieved through the DRS where a zoomed-in replay disclosed that the ball had neither touched the pad nor the bat but had made insignificant contact with the off-stump.

It was a strange one that definitely stumped everyone watching. Even umpire Aleem Dar was done in by the rare sequence. The moment the ball went near Alex Carey, Dar wasted no time in raising his finger. At that point, however, it wasn’t clear if the umpire had given it out for LBW or a caught behind.

But later, he and everyone else were left shocked by the replay of the delivery, as the giant screen confirmed that the ball brushed only the stumps, not the bat or the pad.

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Watch: Alex Carey survives rare sequence of events even as the ball flicks the stumps
Watch: Alex Carey survives rare sequence of events even as the ball flicks the stumps

Alex Carey was reprieved in a strange non-dismissal in Lahore.

Umpire Aleem Dar stumped by Alex Carey’s rare non-dismissal

The incident happened on the fourth ball of the 100th over in the Australian first-innings on Day 2 of the Test match. Facing a yorker from pacer Hasan Ali, Alex Carey couldn’t get his bat down in time. But to his great fortune, the ball neither clipped the pads nor took an edge off his willow. And even though it brushed the stump, it did so without leading to a fall of the bails.

Batting only on 27 at the time, Carey survived the rarest of rare deliveries that hit the stumps but did not disturb the bails on top of them. The left-hander went on to make a fighting 67 off 105 deliveries before his innings was finally brought to an end.

It was Alex Carey’s second half-century of the series where he scored a valiant 93 in the second Test in Karachi.

Speaking to the press after the day’s play, Australian allrounder Cameron Green termed the Carey non-dismissal a “pretty funny” one to digest, adding that even he was puzzled by what had taken place as his initial thought was that it’s out.