Finally, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) opened up about Shakib Al Hasan's timed-out controversy against Angelo Mathews. And the MCC has made it clear that such a dismissal is normal and not Bangladesh's fault.

Law 40.1.1 of the MCC states, “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 3 minutes of the dismissal or retirement. If this requirement is not met, the incoming batter will be out, Timed out.”

Mathews was not ready to face the ball in the allotted 2 minutes. He came to the crease late, taking more time to change his helmet. The MCC said that if Mathews had informed about his delay, the umpires would have had the opportunity to treat the delay as a bat break or something like that.

Matthews spent more than a minute and a half before entering the 30-yard circle. Again, 1 minute and 54 seconds had passed by the time he expressed his desire to change his helmet. At that time he was not in a condition or condition to start batting or bowling within the remaining 6 seconds. Mathews, however, continues to clean up by claiming 'not 2 minutes'.

Mathews did not communicate with the umpires after the helmet fault was detected. Players take the umpire's green signal to bring something new from outside the field. So MCC is clearly saying, 'Mathews was given out by the umpires. They did nothing out of the rules.'

The MCC had to answer several questions to find answers to the Mathews-Shakib controversy. One of these was, is the timed-out rule too necessary? In reply to this, MCC said that this is a timely message so that time is not wasted during the fall of wickets. Also the batting team's delay can lead to a penalty for slow over rate by the opposing team or the captain.

An explanation of the question of whether a fixed period of time should be reckoned for changing equipment before considering a timed out – this rule has never been applied in international cricket before. It has been used 6 times in first-class cricket. For the sake of the rules, the batter has to be timed out in this case.