 Yes, we're still talking cricket, the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup in India has been full of spectacular performances and incredible moments but on Monday it included a real bizarre moment for the first time in international cricket, a batsman was dismissed by the timed out method, Angelo Matthews was given out in Sri Lanka's loss against Bangladesh on Monday after allowing the two minute allotted time to elapse before facing his first delivery, Bangladesh's keeper Shaqib Al-Hassan explained the circumstances in a post-match press conference. One of our fielder came to me and said if you appeal the law says he's out because he hasn't taken his guard within the time frame so then I appealed to the umpire, umpire told me whether you're going to call him back or not you know if I said he's out then you call him back it doesn't look good I said I won't call him back. You know we played under 19 together World Cup so I know Angelo for a long, long time since 2006, yeah unfortunate but within the rules. As a batter if you put yourself in Angelo's shoes and if the same thing happened to you what would you feel? I'll be careful it doesn't happen to me and Angelo Matthews of course expressed his own disappointment. You know if I got late if I got past my two minutes to get to the crease and in the losses you have to be ready within the two minutes and I was there two minutes 45 or 50 seconds I still had after my helmet broke off I still had five more seconds to go and the umpires also have said to our coaches that they didn't see my helmet breaking I mean I was just asking for my helmet there so it was just pure common sense I'm not talking about mancading or obstructing the field here this is just pure common sense and bringing the game into you know distribute. Yeah so Angelo Matthews was pretty caustic at the end of the match yesterday and his expressiveness continuing today and went on social media and calling for the ICC to intervene because he wants justice Ricardo before I get Mariah's comment on yesterday's show you had taken a position that was critical of Angelo Matthews since then we saw another side of the story do you still hold the position you had yesterday? I still hold the position I had yesterday and the simple reason for that is as a batsman it is your responsibility to ensure that you are ready to face your first delivery within the two minutes that have been allotted to you now Angelo Matthews is essentially saying well I couldn't have known that my helmet would have gotten loose when I got out there that has nothing to do with the fielding team it is your responsibility to ensure that your equipment is ready to play and if indeed you are out there and there is something wrong with your helmet it's a spinner who is bowling I'm sure you could take that first delivery from Shaqib Al-Assan without your helmet and keep the game going and you would be fine. He was the one who went out there he decided not to take his guard and I don't think even listening to Angelo Matthews and I get the point that he is disappointed but I still don't think he fully understands the rule because I am thinking that he still believes that oh because I got out there and there was an issue with my equipment then it was okay for me not to be ready within the two minutes it's not all that matters is that you were not ready and for me the umpires made the right decision and I hope that Angelo Matthews eventually understands that the right decision was made it was unfortunate Lance and Mariah but unfortunate dismissals happen all the time in cricket we've seen batsmen hitting the ball straight and it going off the the the batsman's butt at the non-striker's end and going to mid-honour mid-off and a catch is taken so many unfortunate and bizarre dismissals in cricket but it does not make them incorrect and in this case unfortunate for Angelo Matthews but in my opinion the correct decision was made. Yeah hard for me to take though your point Ricardo that you're not sure Angelo Matthews understands the rules because he's he's 36 years old he's played he's been playing international cricket now for a decade at least and he's a former Sri Lanka captain as well so it's hard for me to think that he didn't understand the rules. It's never happened in international cricket before and we'll have an opportunity to look at the rule but part of the reason I think he does not have a complete understanding of it is that he believes that by getting out there in the middle in time and then requesting a change to his helmet that he had made the time and in truth he hadn't because all that matters is that he was not ready to face the first delivery within the allotted two minutes and you look at the rule here after the fall of a wicket or the retirement of a batter the incoming batter must unless time has been called be ready to receive the ball or for the other batter to be ready to receive the next ball within three minutes of the dismissal or retirement if this requirement is not met the incoming batter will be out timed out and the important part of that rule for me is the part that says needs to be ready to receive the ball and 40.1.2 says in the event of an extended delay in which no batter comes to the wicket the umpires shall adopt the procedure of law 16.3 umpires awarding a match for the purposes of the law blah blah yeah but the first one is the important one. Yeah and what I don't get is he cited the use of the word common sense he's saying that common sense should have prevailed and of course the umpires are getting all the blame the umpires are getting the blame so from angelo matthews yeah he's getting all the blame from angelo matthews and my thing is these are reputable umpires you know if we check their names and their history in the game they've been it's just unfortunate that they didn't have a dismissal like this before but they are really really versed on the rules of the match. Second thing is that you know a lot of people are also saying that remember the umpire asked shakib halasan when he wanted to appeal are you sure so i think the umpire carried out all the different things they also asked him to withdraw twice yes yeah right so for me you can't and this is the issue i have blaming the umpires you cannot blame the umpires for something like this because they did all that they had to do in their power you know what i have an issue with the umpires with asking shakib to withdraw i was i was about to present that to you because knowing you and the position you are taking you would have a problem with the umpires doing that i have a massive problem with it and and here is why you don't like the spirit of the game do you i have a problem with lovers of cricket cricket fanatics saying to me that i should play within the spirit of the game when the laws of the game say otherwise so if you if the spirit of the game is so important then why is the opposite of what the spirit of the game is in the laws of the game i have a massive issue with that it does not make any sense so you are saying to me that you are making laws outside of the spirit of the game what is the point of making laws outside of the spirit of the game if the spirit of the game is so important to you i have a massive issue with that i take that point because the laws of the game are there for a reason yes and yeah and and but i i just think that because cricket has a traditional label of being the gentleman's game which doesn't really exist much anymore but i'm just saying the history the history of the game almost dictates that there's something about cricket that the spirit of of how you conduct yourself and conduct a game is very very important i think that's why he's to the purest that ricardo just mentioned but let me ask you a question ricardo is a young is a young cricketer so he doesn't accept those old-fashioned old-fashioned views remember he's a very competitive person so he's going with the rules once it gives him the dismissal let me ask you something lance and mariah let's talk about the spirit of the game versus the the laws of the game right when a man could happen what is more against the spirit of the game the batsman who is cheating 25 percent down the wicket or the baller who does not warn him for trying to cheat it depends on who you ask that question but i am asking you i'm just saying that the older people in cricket no because i've spoken to cricketer are you one of the older are you one of the older people lance i want to know what you want to make a distinction here i'm just saying that i've spoken to retired cricketers who feel that when a batsman is the non-strikers edging out of his crease for a it's not it's not that he is deliberately trying to cheat it's just no he is lance he is deliberately trying to cheat that that's what it boils down to that's what is boiled it boils down to but i i'm not saying that this is my opinion i'm just saying i know retired cricketers who feel that it is just the momentum of them you know getting ready to run so so um but i take the point i take the point that if you are breaking the law to try to get an advantage then if someone stops you in your tracks i have no difficulty with that yeah yeah and that's that's the simple issue i yeah i think because it doesn't happen as often as it should that's why it comes like va if it works for one it doesn't work for one i think that's why it's a massive issue now yeah quickly is sledging against the spirit of the game i think there are i think there are levels and scales of sledging yes get lands cricketers do it every single day on the field yes but all of a sudden because angelo matthews is dismissed in this bizarre unfortunate way you are going to hear about the spirit of the game you are going to hear that shakib al-assan is the worst person in the whole world you're going to hear that shakib al-assan should not have done what he did because bangzadesh can't even make it matthews call him a disgrace set me fine matthews call him a disgrace he is not a disgrace he played within the rules of the game if shakib al-assan is a disgrace then the rules of cricket are also a disgrace i can't agree with i can't disagree with that yeah break time yeah let's close this one off break time