Rules we must know about the Super Over

A Super Over, also known as the One-Over Eliminator is a tie-breaking method used in cricket T20 format. If the official result of the main match is a “tie”, the team winning the “Super Over” is declared the winner of the match. The Super Over was first used in 2008, replacing the bowl-out method that was previously used for breaking a tie. Let us take a look its rules we must know in detail:

Rules of a Super Over: 

–> The Super Over starts 10 minutes after the match (subject to weather conditions). Each side bats for six balls under the restrictions same as the final over in a normal game.

–> The team that bats second in the match will bat first in the Super Over.

–> Each side has to decide on who three players will bat, meaning that the loss of two wickets ends the Super Over.

–> The batsman of the bowling team can’t both bat and bowl in the same Super Over.

–> If the Super Over also ends in a tie, the first satisfied of the following four criteria’s will determine the winner:

1. If D/L method came into the picture in the main match, then:

–> The team that scores most runs on the final delivery of their super over will be declared as the winner. If the final ball is illegal (no-ball, wide   etc.), runs scored from it will count towards the total of the following legal delivery.

2. The team with the most boundaries (Main Match + Super Over) will be the winner.

3. The team with the most boundaries (only from the Main Match) will be the winner.

 

*Before 1 October 2010, Super Overs ending in a tie had the winner decided by the first satisfied of the following criteria:

1. Most sixes hit by a team in both the main match and the super over.

2. Most sixes hit by a team in the main match.

 

Example: 

The match between RR-KXIP on April 21, 2015 at Motera in the eighth edition of the Indian Premier League ended in a tie after each sides’ 20 overs. 

–> David Miller and Shaun Marsh went out to bat for KXIP in the super over.

–> Chris Morris was the “decided bowler” by RR.

–> Miller got out on the first ball and in came in Glenn Maxwell as the last decided batsman by KXIP.

–> Both (especially Marsh) hit 15 runs off the remaining 5 balls.

 

* RR required 16 runs to seal a victory

 

–> Shane Watson and James Faulkner went out to bat for RR.

–> Mitchell Johnson was the “decided bowler” by KXIP.

–> Watson got out on the first ball and in came in Steven Smith as the last decided batsman by RR.

–> Smith then scored a boundary of a no-ball and took a single.

–> On the third ball, Faulkner was run-out and RR’s super over score was 6 for 2 (all-out).

 

KXIP thus won the super over.