Decently timed time out in the final of Pondicherry T20 Premier League 2025 (Photo- PPL/ X)
The final match of Pondicherry T20 Premier League 2025 was played between Mahe Megalo Strikers and Villanur Mohit Kings. Villanur Mohit Kings took this match with 7 wickets. All the players performed very well from the Kings and played an important role in their team’s victory. In this match, during the innings of Megalo Strikers, there was also a player who came to the crease to bat late and due to this he had to lose his wicket. He was dismissed without playing the ball. The name of this player is civilized.
Mangalo strikers got a big shock
All this was seen in the 15th of the innings of Magalo strikers. Actually, the strikers team were not happy about the catch of Kamaleshwaran A and they started talking to the referee. Although the decision was out. Kamaleswaran also looked quite disappointed and he was dismissed after scoring 20 runs. He hit a six in his innings. However, the next batsman decent Chadha delayed the arrival of the crease, after which the fielding team appealed for the time out. Civilized took more than 90 seconds to come to the crease.
The field umpire also talked about it and the batsman of Mahe Megalo strikers was given out. Actually, the ICC rule says that when a player is out, the other batsman has to play the next ball within 90 seconds. If they spend more than 90 seconds to come to the field from the dressing room, then they will be given out. The fielding team can appeal for this. Something similar was also seen in the finals of Pondicherry T20 Premier League.
🚨 timed-out in pondicherry t20 final 🚨
Mahe team wasn’t happy with the relay catch and got into an argument with the reference.
90 seconds had passed and the batter was still not ready to face the next ball. Bowling team appeared for timed-out.pic.twitter.com/2D4SGFS5FM
– Cricketgully (@Thecricketgully) July 28, 2025
Veteran player Angelo Mathews was also dismissed due to time out in the match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka of ODI World Cup 2023. He could not reach the crease at the right time, after which the players of Bangladesh appealed for the time out and had to go back to the pavilion after disappointing. He is the first player to be out in international cricket. Now something similar happened in the Pondicherry T20 League with a civilized chadha.
Kings won the match
Despite all this, Magalo Strikers batted first and scored 139 runs losing eight wickets in 20 overs. Srikaran A scored 32 runs from the team while Raghavan Ramamurthy scored 25 runs. For Mohit Kings, Ramesh Kumar took two wickets for 24 runs in four overs. Chasing the target, Villanur won the match by losing three wickets in 15.1 overs. From the team, Bhanu Anand and Mohit Kale scored 35 runs-35 runs while Akash Pougazandi contributed 43 runs.