A failure in technology has resulted in a farcical no-ball situation during day two of the first Vodafone Ashes Test at the Gabba.
The controversy came to light when Ben Stokes bowled David Warner with a beautiful delivery midway through the morning session.
Warner was rightly spared when the third umpire found the delivery to have been illegal with the England allrounder overstepping.
A short time later, Channel Seven highlighted that Stokes had also over-stepped in each of his previous three previous deliveries, though none had been called as no-balls.
Later, they showed Stokes had in fact bowled 14 no-balls, with only two – including the wicket ball – called.
For the Pakistan versus England Test series in August last year, the ICC announced that for the first time the third umpire would be monitoring the bowler's front foot every delivery.
However, the technology used for that process is currently unavailable for this Test match due to technical problems, and as such, the responsibility to check front-foot no-balls has fallen back to the on-field umpire.
Officials are hopeful the no-ball technology will be available again as soon as possible.
In the meantime at the fall of a wicket, the standing umpire can then ask the third umpire to check the legality of the front foot.
"The background to this (is) a few years ago when England were playing in Sri Lanka, there were a number of no-balls that were supposedly being missed," former ICC umpire Simon Taufel told Seven.
"So...
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