Angelo Mathews was entitled to feel aggrieved against Bangladesh but these furious debates can be an enjoyable distraction in a world gone bad
Angelo Mathews’s anger at being timed out was justifiable but these debates can be an enjoyable distraction in a wicked world’m trying to get angry about Angelo Mathews being sent on his way in Delhi, timed out, open mouthed, outraged, tearing up in the dugout. How cross he must have felt when he discovered that broken chinstrap in the middle, how temporarily betrayed by his Bangladesh counterpart, Shakib Al Hasan.
There must have also been countless times when a player could have been timed out, but neither the captain nor the fielding side thought of appealing. Take the Championship match between Kent and Lancashire at Aigburth in 2002. The late and lamented Andrew Symonds took his time to get from the balcony, down the stairs, and out through the old pavilion – “I was just having a piss when Ed Smith was out,” his explanation – but Lancashire didn’t appeal, and he made a match-winning century.
It all sounds very much like a job for the Spirit of Cricket, who has been invoked fairly regularly of late. There was theby Deepti Sharma at Lord’s in September 2022, and then that other incident at Lord’s this year, the one that culminated in a, and Alex Carey’s quick hands behind the stumps, eventually resulted in one member being expelled, and two suspended, as well as Rishi Sunak, your next door neighbour, and the police force of the state of Victoria having their say.to do.
But he could just about defend his actions under “Play hard, and play fair” – the Laws do after all stipulate that being timed out is a way of losing your wicket. If we decide we actually aren’t very keen on it, perhaps the easiest thing is just do away with Law 40.1 – and consider binning some of the other more obscure ones at the same time.
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