The Ashes: England bowling coach David Saker suggests tourists will take Snicko grievance to ICC

England are threatening to take their grievances with Snicko technology to the ICC after Alex Carey admitted he might have got away with hitting a ball that was given not out before making a century in Adelaide.

Carey appeared to have edged behind a ball from Josh Tongue while he was on 72 during the opening day of the Adelaide Test on Wednesday but was given not out by the on-field umpire.

England reviewed the decision and while there was a clear spike on the Snicko technology and the ball deviated after passing Carey’s bottom edge, the sound and vision did not match up on the replay.

It puts the Australian wicketkeeper — who was out late in the day for 106 — at the centre of yet another Ashes controversy, two-and-a-half years after he threw down Jonny Bairstow’s stumps at Lord’s.

“I thought there was a bit of a feather or some sort of noise when it passed the bat,” Carey said.

“It looked a bit funny on the replay didn’t it, with the noise coming early.

“If I was given out, I think I would have reviewed it, probably not confidently though. It was a nice sound as it passed the bat.”

Then asked why he got away without losing his wicket, Carey replied: “Well Snicko obviously didn’t line up did it”.

“It’s just the way cricket goes sometimes isn’t it, you have a bit of luck and maybe it went my way today.”

England bowling coach David Saker claimed the technology had been awry across the first two Tests of the series and hinted the tourists would take the matter further.

“The boys were pretty confident he hit it,” Saker said.

“I think the Snicko’s out quite a bit and it’s probably been the case for the series. I can’t remember the exact score, but it was a pretty important decision.

“Those things hurt ... you’d think in this day and age you’d hope the technology’s good enough to pick things up like that.

“I don’t think we’ve done anything about it so far, but after today, maybe that might go a bit further. There’s been concerns about it all series.

“We shouldn’t be talking about that after a day’s play, and it should just be better than that. It is what it is.”

Speaking on Channel 7’s coverage, esteemed former Australian umpire Simon Taufel said he believed Carey had hit the ball, but that the calibration was off.

“The confusing element here for everyone was that the spike occurred at least a couple of frames before the bat,” Taufel said.

“My gut tells me from all of my experience on field and also as a TV umpire that I think Alex Carey has actually hit that ball and the technology calibration hasn’t been quite right to gain the outcome that it was looking for.”