Editing Timed out (section)

==Background==

"Timed Out" as a specific method of dismissal was added to the Laws in the 1980 code.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://acscricket.com/Articles/2/2391.html |title=Laws of Cricket 1980, Law 31|website=acscricket.co}} {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927234046/http://acscricket.com/Articles/2/2391.html |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref> It provided two minutes for the incoming batter to "step on to the field of play". In the 2000 code, this was revised to three minutes for the batter to "be in position to take guard or for his partner to be ready to receive the next ball".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lords.org/laws-and-spirit/laws-of-cricket/laws/law-31-timed-out,57,AR.html |title=Laws of Cricket 2000, Law 31|website= www.lords.org}}{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501073644/http://www.lords.org/laws-and-spirit/laws-of-cricket/laws/law-31-timed-out,57,AR.html |date=1 May 2008 }}</ref> However, the first printed Laws of cricket, in 1775, already required the umpires "To allow Two Minutes for each Man to come in when one is out".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://acscricket.com/Articles/2/2537.html|title= Laws of cricket 1775|website=acscricket.com}} {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927233847/http://acscricket.com/Articles/2/2537.html |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref>

In 1919, [[Sussex County Cricket Club|Sussex]] cricketer [[Harold Heygate]] was given out by the umpire [[Alfred Street (cricket umpire)|Alfred Street]] as "timed out" in a first-class [[County Championship]] match with [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]] at [[County Ground, Taunton|Taunton]]. [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]], then in charge of the Laws, later ruled that the umpire was correct in ending the Sussex innings when Heygate failed to appear within two minutes, but that the batter should be marked as "absent", which is how it appears in the 1920 edition of [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]]. Under present rules, Heygate would have been recorded as "absent hurt", and this is how his innings is now recorded in CricketArchive. The match ended in a [[Result (cricket)#Tie|tie]].<ref>See the [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/9/9533.html CricketArchive Scorecard]. Heygate was given out under Law 45 of the [http://acscricket.com/Articles/2/2473.html Laws of cricket, 1884 code – 1919 revision] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927234053/http://acscricket.com/Articles/2/2473.html |date=27 September 2007 }}.</ref>