‘Spirit of cricket’ is as soon as once more again in dialogue due to Shakib Al Hasan who appealed for a timed out dismissal in opposition to Angelo Mathews and the latter was adjudged out by the umpires. For the unversed, the incident occurred throughout the Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka recreation within the ongoing World Cup 2023 on Monday (November 6).
After the autumn of Sadeera Samarawickrama’s wicket, Mathews got here out to bat and was able to take strike inside two minutes (based on enjoying circumstances) earlier than his helmet strap got here off. By the point, he requested for a brand new helmet, Shakib appealed for timed out and the umpires needed to oblige. Whereas the Bangladesh skipper was requested a number of instances if he needs to withraw, Shakib refused and Mathews needed to ultimately be a part of historical past as he grew to become the primary ever batter in worldwide cricket historical past to be given timed out.
Ever since this incident has occurred, a throwback video of Sourav Ganguly practically being ‘timed out’ nearly 17 years in the past has gone viral. It was the Check match between India and South Africa in Cape City when it took a large six minutes for Ganguly to return out to bat. It was India’s second innings and the staff had misplaced two wickets for simply six runs.
Sachin Tendulkar needed to bat at 4 however he was off the sphere for fairly a while when India had been fielding. The autumn of couple of fast wickets led to guidelines not permitting him to return out to bat. There was some miscommunication relating to the identical and for a similar motive, Ganguly wasn’t able to bat both. After it was communicated, the previous India skipper bought prepared and took actually six minutes to return out. There was plenty of confusion within the center till then because the then South Africa skipper was seen speaking to umpires on a number of event.
Many felt that the batter coming in will probably be ‘timed out’ based on the principles (MCC legislation states the batter has to return out inside three minutes of dismissal of earlier batter). However nothing of that types occurred with Smith not interesting in any respect and play resumed as soon as Ganguly got here out to bat. The video of the identical has gone viral ever since Mathews has been given out.
Watch the video right here:
As for the Check match, India misplaced it by 5 wickets with South Africa chasing down the 211-run goal within the fourth innings.
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