Angelo Mathews, on Monday (November 6), grew to become the primary ever batter in the 146-year worldwide cricket historical past to be adjudged timed out. Since then, a confrontation is occurring between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Things heated up in the center as properly later even because the gamers from each groups even refused to shake palms after the match.
Mathews even known as Shakib Al Hasan‘s act ‘disgraceful’ to enchantment for a timed out dismissal. For the unversed, Mathews was adjudged timed out on Monday after not being ‘prepared to take strike’ inside two minutes after the dismissal of the batter. While he was preparing to take strike, the batter discovered out that his helmet strap was damaged and it took some extra time for him to prepare with new helmet coming from the dressing room.
During this era, Shakib appealed for a timed out dismissal and the umpires upheld the enchantment just for the livid Mathews to stroll away. Even the fourth umpire Adrian Holdstock defined the rule and why he was given out. But Mathews is adamant stating that he got here out in the center inside two minutes solely and contradicted with fourth umpire’s views. He additionally supplied the evidence that he was properly throughout the time and prepared to take the strike earlier than the helmet strap got here off.
“4th umpire is wrong here! Video evidence shows I still had 5 more seconds even after the helmet gave away! Can the 4th umpire rectify this please? I mean safety is paramount as I just couldn’t face the bowler without a helmet,” Mathews tweeted.
Angelo Mathews was on hearth on social media after the match in addition to he responded to former Sri Lanka cricketer Russel Arnold who reiterated the rule of the necessity to be prepared inside two minutes. “Yes was ready before that 2 mins! Can’t face the bowler without the helmet no?”
Interestingly, there was one other incident that got here to the sunshine when Angelo Mathews was captain. Under his captaincy, Jos Buttler was ran out on the non-striker’s finish by after which, Mathews hadn’t withdrew the enchantment. Even for this, the previous Sri Lanka skipper defined that Buttler was given a number of warnings earlier than being dismissed. “This was done after two warnings ! And even after the warnings it kept happening and clearly they were taking advantage of it!” Mathews tweet learn.
