Question: What is the purpose of a "declaration match" in the game of Cricket?
About the article "Cricket", section "Types of matches".

Candidate passages:
This is the most traditional version of cricket, with rules most closely replicating the original rules of cricket from the 16th and 17th century.
It is a single innings game with a set time limit for the entire game to be completed in.
To win the game, a side must both score the highest aggregate amount of runs and take all ten of the opposition wickets.
It is up to the side batting first to declare when they feel they have enough runs to be able to win the match.
In this format of cricket, if the side batting second do not lose all ten of their wickets, the match is said to have ended in a draw. 
There are only a few purpose built cricket grounds in the United States, they include: the Germantown Cricket Cluband the Philadelphia Cricket Club inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, the Staten Island Cricket Club on Staten Island, New York; the Central Broward Regional Parkin Lauderhill, Florida; and the Leo Magnus Cricket Complex in Van Nuys, California.
The game is also played on a number of shared purpose venues, they include: Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, New York and others.
The major cricket ground in USA  Central Broward Regional Park in Lauderhill - Hosted 4 T20I since 2010.
It only ICC-certified cricket stadium in America  Leo Magnus Cricket Complex in Los Angeles - Hosted five List-A match between India-A and Australia-A in 2000   Indianapolis World Sports Park in Indianapolis - The facility is slated to open in 2014 and had will host the Domestic Season in 2014 and 2015  
Multan Cricket Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
The stadium is located off Vehari Road, in the suburbs of Multan.
It is primarily used for cricket matches.
The stadium seats 40,000, and hosted its first test match in 2001, Pakistan against Bangladesh for the Asian Test Championship.
The stadium hosts both forms of international cricket: Test cricket and One Day International.
The ground was inaugurated in 2001 as a replacement for the Ibn-e-Qasim Bagh Stadium located in the heart of Multan.
Floodlights were recently installed to make day/night cricket matches possible.
The first day/night game played at this ground was between arch-rivals India and Pakistan. 
In January 2012 Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom made the bold declaration that Ireland will be playing Test cricket by 2020.
Their desire to reach Test status is in part to stem the tide of Irish players using residency rules to switch to playing for England to play at full international Test match level.
Warren Deutrom outlined the ambition as he unveiled the new strategic plan for Irish cricket to 2015.
The plan sets out a series of stretching goals including increasing the number of participants in the game to 50,000, setting a target of reaching 8th in the World rankings, establish a domestic first-class cricket structure and reinforcing cricket as the 5th major team sport in Ireland.
Deutrom had already sent a letter to the ICC in 2009 stating his board's intention to apply for Full Membership – a potential pathway to Test cricket – and to seek clarification on the process.
The 2012 plan's aim to achieve Test status by 2020, 
The purpose of the law is to ensure there are no unnecessary delays to the game.
It is easily avoided and it is very unusual for a batsman to get out 'timed out'.
, there have been no instances of this type of dismissal in Test match or One Day International cricket and there have only been four instances in first-class cricket as a whole.