{"id":295694,"date":"2023-11-07T00:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T00:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=295694"},"modified":"2023-11-07T00:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T00:24:38","slug":"david-lloyd-hallelujah-i-dont-pay-to-watch-cricketers-dwardle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/%d1%81ricket\/david-lloyd-hallelujah-i-dont-pay-to-watch-cricketers-dwardle\/","title":{"rendered":"DAVID LLOYD: Hallelujah! I don&apos;t pay to watch cricketers dwardle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>DAVID LLOYD: Hallelujah! I don&#8217;t pay to watch cricketers dwardle! Sri Lanka&#8217;s Angelo Mathews should have been ready to bat against Bangladesh &#8211; players should not be going down mid-over for a chat<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Angelo Mathews was dismissed in a groundbreaking decision on Monday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It came during Bangladesh&#8217;s Cricket World Cup win against Sri Lanka\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sri Lankan historically became the first international player to be timed out\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have one thing to say about Angelo Mathews&#8217; groundbreaking dismissal on Monday: Hallelujah!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time. I haven&#8217;t paid my money to watch cricketers wandering about aimlessly.<\/p>\n<p>Mathews should have been ready because he knew he was next in, and when the fourth Sri Lankan wicket fell, he had two minutes to face up.<\/p>\n<p>What is the problem? Too many players faff about, doing nothing. Just get on with the game.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the ludicrously slow pace to the game, which means teams cannot fulfil 15 overs an hour, is a batter dawdling in, when they&#8217;re supposed to cross the outgoing batter on the field of play.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/06\/21\/77476205-12717483-Angelo_Mathews_became_the_first_ever_international_cricketer_to_-a-11_1699307215760.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Angelo Mathews became the first ever international cricketer to be timed out on Monday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/06\/21\/77476193-0-image-a-22_1699306751575.jpg\" height=\"458\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It came during Bangladesh&#8217;s Cricket World Cup victory against Sri Lanka\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some wait until his team-mate is off the field before they get up from their seat. It&#8217;s ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p>So, well done to Bangladesh for recognising their right to appeal and well done to Marais Erasmus. I&#8217;ll send him a Christmas card.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a thoroughly good bloke who has now gone up in my estimation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This will be one of my favourite dismissals, and I hope it leads to more! It&#8217;s made me yearn for my umpiring days. I&#8217;d be delighted to send some off!<\/p>\n<p>One thing I have advocated is the bowler bowling the ball once the allotted two minutes is up, regardless of whether the batsman is ready.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t care less if the batsman has taken guard or not, the umpire has an obligation when two minutes has gone to call &#8216;play&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the player isn&#8217;t at the crease, or hasn&#8217;t got the right gloves, helmet or bat &#8211; unlucky.<\/p>\n<p>An addendum here: players should not be going down mid-over for a chat with their team-mate, because the laws state the batsman has to be ready when the bowler is at the end of his normal run. Let this be a warning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/06\/21\/77476185-0-image-a-21_1699306698549.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He protested his case to the umpires after failing to take his guard ahead of the stumps in sufficient time<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-12717483\/DAVID-LLOYD-Hallelujah-dont-pay-watch-cricketers-dwardle-Sri-Lankas-Angelo-Mathews-ready-bat-against-Bangladesh-players-not-going-mid-chat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID LLOYD: Hallelujah! I don&#8217;t pay to watch cricketers dwardle! Sri Lanka&#8217;s Angelo Mathews should have been ready to bat against Bangladesh &#8211; players should not be going down mid-over for a chat Angelo Mathews was dismissed in a groundbreaking decision on Monday It came during Bangladesh&#8217;s Cricket World Cup win against Sri Lanka\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DAVID LLOYD: Hallelujah! 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