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Timed out
Mon, June 04 2018
The first ‘timed out’ decision that never happened
Timed out became a mode of dismissal only in 1980, but this incident dates back to 1911.
Tue, December 20 2016
Hemulal Yadav becomes first batsman to be timed out in a First-Class match — till they changed the laws
Hemulal Yadav was deep in conversation with his manager at the boundary line before the play was about to start.
Sun, May 22 2016
The day Harold Heygate became the first batsman to be “timed out”
Surrey's Harold Heygate got dismissed while desperately strapping his pads over a blue serge suit. He became the first man in history of cricket to be timed out — although the scorecards said 'out, absent’.