‘Don’t want to see that sort of thing in our game’: Allan Donald on Angelo Mathews’ timed-out dismissal | Cricket-world-cup News

Sri Lankan all-rounder Angelo Mathews became the first player in international cricket hory to be dismissed “timed out” during the league stage match against Bangladesh at the ICC Cricket World Cup. And incident that has sparked a debate about the rule and its implications for the game.The dismissal was controversial for a number of reasons. Some argued that the rule was unfair, as it did not take into account the extenuating circumstances of Mathews’ delay. Others argued that the rule was necessary to keep the game moving at a brisk pace.
However, former Protea pacer and current Bangladesh fast-bowling coach Allan Donald expressed his unhappiness with skipper Shakib-Al-Hasan’s act.
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“It was disappointing to see. I can understand Shakib taking his chance. His words were ‘I was doing everything to win’. You can sense in my voice that I don’t like it,” Donald said in an interview with CricBlog.Net.
“I don’t like that sort of thing. It was really difficult to watch that unfold – one of Sri Lanka’s all-time greats walking off the field without a ball bowled to him being given out for time. That’s where I stand on that.
“You talk about the respect and the dignity for each other and for the game, the spirit of the game. I just don’t want to see things like that. That’s just me. I just don’t want to see that sort of thing in our game where, okay, someone was sharp out there and said ‘well, you can appeal’. I was like, ‘really – this is not going to happen, this cannot be happening, this can’t be happening’,” he added.

“The most sensible thing would have been to just to say, ‘okay, no worries, mate, sort your helmet out quickly; you have time to replace it’,” he continued.
In the ongoing World Cup, the rule is, that a batter has to face a ball within two minutes after coming out. But Donald revealed that he wanted Shakib to withdraw his appeal.
“My immediate reaction when that happened – and this is just [that] my instincts would have taken over – is I almost actually thought of going on that field and saying, ‘enough is enough, we don’t stand for this; we are not that kind of team who stand for this’. That was my immediate thought.

“Things happened so quickly, but you’re talking about authority and I’m not the head coach, I’m not in charge. I just saw Marais Erasmus [the umpire at the bowler’s end] say, ‘please Angelo, you can now depart the ground’. And, seeing Angelo pick his helmet up and then walking off and throwing it against the advertising boards; it just was… I was surprised.”Most Read
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He also revealed how after the game, there were no handshakes between the two sides.

“We didn’t shake hands, and you walk on the field, and I knew what was going to come after Sri Lanka had fielded… it was just going to be a very, very blank reception and that it certainly was.
“There was anger. The only word you can use, really, is anger. At the end of the day then, like I normally do, I’m almost out there on the park first shaking hands and I just knew that these guys were heading for one place and that’s the dressing room. There was no eye contact at all, no conversations, nothing. I don’t know, a lot of these cricketers today can call me old-fashioned but I just don’t think there is any place for it. I just don’t think so.”