The Super Over and the limits of a tiebreaker

Six balls to separate two sides who could not be separated in a hundred and twenty.

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The Super Over and the limits of a tiebreaker

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It is the most watched over in cricket and the least representative one.

A format inside a format

Three batters, one bowler, no field restrictions to speak of. Almost nothing that made a team good over the previous three hours applies.

The key points

  • Three batters and one bowler per side
  • A dismissal ends the over immediately after two wickets
  • Further Super Overs are played until a winner emerges

The alternatives are worse

Deciding a final on boundary count, group position or a bowl-out has been tried, and each produced a result that felt less earned than six more balls. Nobody has yet proposed anything better.

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