Watch: Angelo Mathews Presents Final Piece of Evidence to Argue He Shouldn't Have Been 'Timed Out'

Sri Lanka allrounder Angelo Mathews continues to back his claim he was wrongly ‘timed out’ during his team’s 2023 world cup match against Bangladesh in Delhi on Monday.

On X (formerly Twitter), Mathews has shared a clip of the event starting from Sadeera Samarawickrama’s catch till his arrival at the batting crease when he realised the strap on his helmet is broken.

The clip is accompanied by a timer showing him getting to the crease inside the ICC playing conditions requirement of two minutes for a new batter to be ready to face a ball.

“I rest my case! Here you go you decide,” Mathews wrote alongside the clip.

It was Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan who appealed for ‘timed out’ following which Mathews was informed to leave the field.

After having a discussion with both the on-field umpires and Shakib, Mathews grudgingly returned to the dressing room, expressing his displeasure at the turn of events.

“…I haven’t done anything wrong,” Mathews told reporters. “I have two minutes to get to the crease and get myself ready, which I did. And then it was an equipment malfunction.”

“And I don’t know where the common sense went, because it’s obviously disgraceful from Shakib and Bangladesh if they want to play cricket like that obviously stooped down to that level I think there’s something wrong drastically because – if I got late if I got past my two minutes to get to the crease and in the law says 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,” he added.

Mathews is the first batter in international cricket to have been timed out.

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka lost the contest after failing to defend 283 to crash out of the world cup semi-finals race. They will next face New Zealand in their ninth and final match of the competition on Thursday.