Allan Donald comments about Shakib Al Hasan, who requested a timed out against Angelo Mathews during their most recent game against Sri Lanka at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on November 6, are expected to be clarified by the Bangladesh Cricket Board. As the first cricket player to be timed out for an international match, Mathews went down in history.
Shakib Al Hasan received strong criticism for his behavior from a number of quarters, and Allan Donald joined the chorus of displeasure.
Seeing behavior like this on the cricket field demoralized Donald. He expressed his displeasure with Shakib and saw that there was clearly unhappiness in his tone when talking about the episode.
“What I saw was disappointing. I understand Shakib’s decision to take a risk. “I was doing everything to win,” he said. I don’t like it, and you can tell by the tone of my voice. When that occurred, my first thought was to walk onto the field and declare, “Enough is enough, we don’t stand for this; we are not that kind of team who stand for this.” However, this is simply my instinct taking over. In a CricBlog.Net interview, Donald stated, “That was my first thought.”
Officials from BCB said that they were aware of Allan Donald’s outburst and that they intended to quickly get an explanation. They emphasized that they would do everything in their power to keep the players focused ahead of their important match against Australia. “We are treating the news that quotes Donald seriously, as we have seen it. In the upcoming days, we will undoubtedly look for an explanation.”
A dismissal that will live in memory for a very long time
After Sadeera Samarawickrama left the game in the 25th over of Sri Lanka’s innings, this incident happened. When he got to the crease with Charith Asalanka, Angelo Mathews snapped the strap off his helmet and motioned for his teammates in the dugout to get the right helmet.
The umpires voiced their displeasure with the proceedings as the replacement quickly showed up wearing the proper helmet. The captain of Bangladesh appealed his ‘timed out’ dismissal without delay. Bangladesh maintained their appeal despite Mathews’ attempts to make things clear to Shakib and the umpires; this resulted in an unusual case of a timed out dismissal during the game.
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