Bangladesh fast bowling coach Allan Donald suggested that he didn’t like Angelo Mathews’ timed-out dismissal in the ODI World Cup match at Arun Jaitley Stadium. The Proteas bowling legend was not impressed with Shakib Al Hasan’s appeal for the dismissal as Mathews became the first player in international cricket to get ‘timed-out’.
The former Sri Lanka skipper took more than the regulated time – two minutes to take a strike and opposition skipper Shakib appealed, which was upheld by the on-field umpire.
In the post-match presentation, Shakib said that he did everything within the laws of the game and he took the decision because he was at a war and did everything to help his team register a win.
In an interview with CricBlog.Net, Donald said, “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… 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.”
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Donald said that he didn’t want to see things like that happen in the game of cricket.
“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 Proteas legend shared his views and said Shakib should have given Mathews time to change his helmet as he was not deliberately taking more time.
“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’,” Donald said.
He further revealed what was going through his mind when all of that happened on the field.
“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,” he added.
Donald said that he was stunned when Mathews walked out of the ground timed-out without facing any ball.
“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,” he said.
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