Warner opted not to use the Decision Referral System (DRS) against New Zealand in yesterday’s ODI at Eden Park, before replays showed the dismissal that became the catalyst of a 4/2 collapse would have been overturned.

“I said `What does it feel like?’” Bailey told RSN Breakfast today.

“And he said `high’. And I said `go for it’ and he turned around and walked off, so I don’t really know what more he wants from my end.”

Bailey lost his own wicket in the following over as Australia fell to a 159-run flogging and immediately questioned Warner in the dressing room why he had opted to walk.

“He said `I wasn’t that confident in what you had said’ and I said `well I’m not really sure what you’re after Davey, but I can’t be any more explicit than saying go for it.’”

However, Bailey played down the role of the non-striker in DRS referrals, arguing the dismissed batsman is always best placed to determine their fate.

“More often than not I reckon you know,” Bailey said.

“Quite often those discussions with the bloke at the other end, you’re sort of hoping for a miracle… but I think in his case it was him just going with his gut.”

Australian captain Steve Smith also questioned why the decision wasn’t sent upstairs by Warner.

“It wasn’t a great non-referral,” Smith said after the loss.

“I thought he must have hit it when I saw it live because Brendon McCullum caught it.

“I’m not really sure of the conversation those two had just yet. I’ll find out once I get back into the sheds.”

-AAP