And you thought this game was inconsequential?
Updated On: 07 November, 2023 08:05 AM IST | New Delhi | Santosh Suri
Battle of two out-of-contention Asian teams earns eyeballs thanks to Shakib Al Hasan winning international cricket’s first ever time out appeal against Angelo Mathews
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Angelo Mathews shows his faulty helmet as he is timed out against Bangladesh yesterday. Pics/AFP, PTI
Nothing is going right for Sri Lankan cricket. On Monday morning, the entire Sri Lankan Cricket Committee was “timed out” by their Sports Minister in the wake of the poor performance of the national team in the World Cup and by the evening, their senior batter Angelo Mathews was ‘timed out’ by the umpire on the appeal made by the Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan at the Kotla when the batter was not ready to face the ball within two minutes of the dismissal of an earlier batter. This has happened for the first time in international cricket and it brought an inconsequential game into the limelight.
But it was not the first time in international cricket that the incoming batter was not been ready to face the ball within the stipulated two-three minutes, but fielding captains have never appealed to an umpire to rule the delayed batter out. Here, like it used to be with the run out at the bowler’s end, the spirit of the game or sportsmanship prevented captains from appealing for time out. That delay could have happened due to a spate of wickets, an incoming batter may be limping or may have forgotten a piece of equipment.
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