Angelo Mathews’ ‘Timed Out’ Controversy Revisited With Bangladesh Star’s ‘Dig’ At Rivals During T20I. Watch

During the ODI World Cup 2023, a dismissal of Sri Lanka’s Angelo mathews snowballed into a serious controversy. The vogue through which the previous Sri Lanka skipper was dismissed was the rationale behind it. Angelo Mathews was dominated ‘timed out’ throughout his group’s essential conflict towards Bangladesh. The incident occurred on the second ball of the twenty fifth over, bowled by Bangladesh captain Shakib al Hasan. Sadeera Samarawickrama had simply been dismissed and Angelo Mathews arrived on the crease on the fall of the fourth wicket. But quickly there was confusion as Mathews realised that he had introduced the fallacious helmet and pleaded his case with the Bangladesh gamers and the umpires.

The visuals confirmed that he was indicating that the helmet strap had come off. The harm had, nevertheless, been carried out by then.

The substitute participant of the Sri Lanka group did run with the proper helmet. But by then, Bangladesh had already appealed for a ‘timed out’. Angelo Mathews, fairly animatedly, pleaded with the umpires and Shakib al Hasan however the enchantment was not withdrawn. Angelo Mathews was completely furious after the dismissal and threw away his helmet in frustration proper after going out of the sector of play.

Then, whereas bowling, Angelo Mathews took the wicket of Shakib Al Hasan and gestured like pointing in the direction of his watch.

Now, throughout a T20I between each the groups in Sylhet on Monday, the notorious incident was revisited. It occurred after Shoriful Islam gestured in very same approach after dismissing Sri Lanla’s Avishka Fernando.

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Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto gained the toss and elected to bowl within the first of the three-match Twenty20 collection towards Sri Lanka in Sylhet on Monday. The collection marks the beginning of Sri Lanka’s month-long tour of Bangladesh, which additionally contains three one-day internationals and two Tests.

Both groups view the collection as key preparations forward of the World Cup in June. Bangladesh have by no means defeated Sri Lanka in a Twenty20 collection.

Bangladesh: Najmul Hossain Shanto (capt), Litton Das (wk), Towhid Hridoy, Soumya Sarkar, Mahedi Hasan, Mahmudullah Riyad, Jaker Ali Anik, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam.

Sri Lanka: Avishka Fernando, Kusal Mendis (wk), Kamindu Mendis, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka (capt), Angelo Mathews, Dasun Shanaka, Maheesh Theekshana, Matheesha Pathirana, Akila Dananjaya, Binura Fernando.

With AFP inputs