Zing International's Port Adelaide plant brings flashing bails and stumps to top-class world cricket games

Zing International flashing cricket stumps and bails work also helped determine if a batsman was out.

The flashing cricket stumps and bails used in Test, Twenty20 and 50-over cricket at international and top domestic level, including the hugely popular Indian Premier League (IPL), were designed and made by Port Adelaide-based manufacturer Zing International.

The LED technology Zing Wicket System went from strength to strength since launching in 2012, consistently growing export markets to New Zealand, South Africa, the Caribbean, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

Television audiences for the Indian and Caribbean premier league Twenty20 matches ran into the billions. Zing’s cricket stumps and bails had their United States debut in the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 tournament in Florida.

The Zing wicket system was first tried in a club cricket game in Adelaide. Once Cricket Australia was convinced about using it, instead of the wooden stumps for night matches, it adopted them in the 2012 Big Bash League in Australia.

Invented by Bronte Eckermann, Zing flashing stumps and bails worked through an innovative patented sensor system in each end of the bail that flashed coloured lights the millisecond both ends of the bail lifted from the stumps.

The revolutionary product solved a common problem where it could be difficult to determine on a TV replay if both ends of any bail have lifted from the stumps and, therefore, if the batsman was out.

With the help of 3D printing technology, the company could manufacture 90% of the Zing System in Australia, with 80% in Adelaide, allowing quality control and local jobs.