***Official***Match #38- Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka - November 6th - Delhi (D/N)

[Spark]

I'm surprised we haven't seen someone go through and measure how long it's taken for every Bangladesh player to be ready to face through this WC so far

 

[Sunil1z]

Request viewers to not miss last 1 minute

 

[Burgey]

I'm surprised we haven't seen someone go through and measure how long it's taken for every Bangladesh player to be ready to face through this WC so far

TBF they should be pretty fit from walking on and off the park so rapidly in most of their batting innings.

 

[Prince EWS]

I'm surprised we haven't seen someone go through and measure how long it's taken for every Bangladesh player to be ready to face through this WC so far

Given they batted second last night I reckon they were all on the ball then.

Previous games this tournament would be interesting, but I reckon Shakib's response would just be, "Well you should have appealed you daft ****s."

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Graeme Smith had an opportunity to time out a batsman in this Test Match vs India but decided against it.
(*Legends everywhere!)

 

[Spikey]

they really should be an actual clock ticking down the 2 minutes though

some dumb company can be the sponsor it if they need to make money off it

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Graeme Smith could have timed out Sachin or any Indian batsman that walked out after this delay but chose not to appeal .

He's a coward

 

[Aritro]

Of course, all this could have been averted if Mathews had spent more time preparing an appropriate helmet and less time sitting around with his hand gripped around his own.

 

[Prince EWS]

Of course, all this could have been averted if Mathews had spent more time preparing an appropriate helmet and less time sitting around with his hand gripped around his own.

Pretty unreasonable expectation tbf.

 

[Molehill]

I'm wondering when someone might try it with Steve Smith. He might get to the crease inside 2 mins, but it's at least another 90 seconds before he's actually ready. Someone should've tried it with Trott too whilst he was scratching around with a bail!!

 

[Daemon]

A real shame the WC wasn’t decided on this. great opportunity for at least 4 years of waahhh gone missing.

 

[DriveClub]

Of course, all this could have been averted if Mathews had spent more time preparing an appropriate helmet and less time sitting around with his hand gripped around his own.

Nah fk shakib, feels a much more satisfying thing to say

 

[Aritro]

A real shame the WC wasn’t decided on this. great opportunity for at least 4 years of waahhh gone missing.

Demonstrably not the most egregious way a World Cup has ever been decided

 

[King Kane]

Mathews didn't miss Shakib in his after game press conference, can't say I blame him as it was a low act from Shakib to appeal for a timed out dismissal.

At least he got some revenge by getting Shakib's wicket and giving him a send off, just a pity it came too late for it to make any difference to the result.

 

[Molehill]

Demonstrably not the most egregious way a World Cup has ever been decided

Very true, the Politics and D/L fiascos of 2003 robbed us of the inevitable England/SA Final that everyone wanted.

 

[social]

Karma is undefeated

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1721812348355125288

 

[Sunil1z]

Matthews has released video with Timer on his Twitter account

 

[Tom Flint]

Of course, all this could have been averted if Mathews had spent more time preparing an appropriate helmet and less time sitting around with his hand gripped around his own.

Maybe he did and it was fine. Then broke when he got out there. Things can all of a sudden break that was working perfectly 5 minutes before.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

I'm wondering when someone might try it with Steve Smith. He might get to the crease inside 2 mins, but it's at least another 90 seconds before he's actually ready. Someone should've tried it with Trott too whilst he was scratching around with a bail!!

Shiv chanders with bail hammer

 

[cnerd123]

Matthews has released video with Timer on his Twitter account

Star Sports was showing a timer with a replay from a fixed camera angle from the moment the catch was taken up until Mathews helmet strap breaking on repeat throughout the second innings. Comms couldn't stop talking about it. Pretty clear it was 1 min 55, everyone who was watching the game knows this already. It's not the 'shocking' evidence that Mathews thinks it is lol.