Timed out for not receiving a delivery, after his helmet strap broke. I imagine there will be some sticklers of the laws of cricket defending it, but to me looks like probably the maddest dismissal I’ve ever seen.
Can you get timed out if a strap breaks on your box? I'd rather be timed out than get a quick one in the nuts.
Its not quite so simple, it appears he wasnt ready regardless as his 2 minutes were up before he broke his strap The problem is it affects the fielding side. The overs have to be bowled within a certain time or they start losing fielders at the end of the innings 2 minutes is allowed for each wicket- if he takes longer then it penalises the fielding side as they may not get through all their overs in time. That said he could have faced one ball then taken the time to change a broken helmet - not sure if there is any way to turn the time off in such circumstances but I assume there must be - same as for an injury
Good decision. He had to go. Rules are rules and you can't hold up the bowling side when they have a time limit to get through their overs.
What if he had faced his first ball with the broken strap of his helmet hanging down then asked for a change of helmet? That still would have taken the same length of time to do. Plus given the death of Phil Hughes surely a players safety is of paramount importance (I know at the time the spinner was on but that's not the point)
Are you being serious? He was at the crease in time. Ok he’d probably not have taken guard within 120 seconds but do you really think he’d have been the only batsman in the tournament that applied to? His bloody chin strap snapped. The fourth umpire has even lied between the innings and said his two minutes were up before it snapped - they weren’t. Nearly, but they weren’t. It’s a bloody disgrace and I hope the Bangladeshi captain is proud of himself.
It's called common sense. Add the extra time taken to replace the Helmet. Give the umpires some leeway. Another couple of minutes wouldnt have been an issue and an horrible confrontation avoided. Pathetic really.
No laws were broken. Something can't be outside the spirit of the game when nothing has officially been done wrong.
Cool. Let’s have a game where stuff like this, plus the Bairstow stumping, Mankading with no prior warning, appealing for handling the ball when a batsman only picks it up to return it to the bowler, deliberately getting in a batsman’s way to enable a run out and so on are commonplace… Alternatively we could go back to a game played in the right spirit without controversy and with mutual respect - go back to being more akin to rugby union than football. The clue in that graphic was where the umpire asked him if he was serious about wanting to appeal and asked if he’d take it back… Mathews wasn’t even out under the laws of the game by the way, only in the revised playing conditions for the ICC tournament. The written law actually says three minutes.