Five minutes before half-time, Hammers boss Sam Allardyce had seen enough and made a double switch, introducing Maiga to belatedly offer a permanent presence up front and Mohamed Diame to plug the gaps that Jose Mourinho's men were exploiting in midfield.
But when Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews belatedly introduced himself to the attack late in the afternoon, Ballance prodded outside off stump and gave the first of four catches to wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal.
After a protracted struggle, conscription was belatedly introduced.
Subtle refurbishments have been undertaken, menus gently tweaked, a new executive chef installed, Sunday lunches belatedly introduced.
But when he belatedly introduces a lurid plot, the novel becomes less Joycean nocturne, more Pulp Fiction.
Over the past few months, meanwhile, American and US Airways have belatedly introduced flat beds to their business-class cabins.
Compulsory summer school was belatedly introduced to end "social promotion", whereby pupils automatically rise a grade each year even if they have not met adequate educational levels.
A more manipulative film would have played up the drama of securing the damning evidence against Beckett, which is belatedly introduced at his deposition.
That allowed the overall deficit to fall as planned from 11% of GDP in 2009 to just over 9%, in the first year of an austerity programme belatedly introduced by the Socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
But thousands were refused citizenship when Czechoslovakia split in 1993: a new Czech citizenship law, designed indirectly to exclude the Romanies, was introduced, and only belatedly changed.Human-rights groups say the Czechs are still doing little.
It is his contention that in 1910 England was belatedly introduced to the modernism that was already taking the Continent by storm, and that the smug, bourgeois certainties of the 19th century began to give way that year to a view of the world that was more personal, more fragmented, more willfully anarchic.
