Big Bash implements multiple Super Overs for tiebreakers

The new rule applies to all matches in the Big Bash finals series, while a tied Super Over in a regular season game will see the points divided.

Published : Sep 24, 2019 10:13 IST , Melbourne

The 2019 men's Cricket World Cup final was decided by a Super Over which also ended in a tie.
The 2019 men's Cricket World Cup final was decided by a Super Over which also ended in a tie.
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The 2019 men's Cricket World Cup final was decided by a Super Over which also ended in a tie.

The contentious boundary countback tie-breaker that gave England victory over New Zealand in the Cricket World Cup final won’t be used in the Big Bash Twenty20 tournaments in Australia this season.

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Cricket Australia on Tuesday said that under the new rules, if two teams are tied at the end of a final and then again after a Super Over, subsequent Super Overs will be played until there is a clear winner in both the men’s and women’s T20 leagues.

The new rule applies to all matches in the finals series, while a tied Super Over in a regular season game will see the points divided.

At Lord’s in July, New Zealand scored 241-8 and bowled out England for 241. Under World Cup final rules, the tied match went to a Super Over in which the best batsmen of one team try to score the most runs against a nominated bowler from the other.

Both teams scored 15 runs in Super Over but England won on a countback of boundaries scored during the match. England won the World Cup title for the first time, but there were many critics of the tiebreaker formula.

International Cricket Council chief executive Geoff Allardice said earlier this year that its Cricket Committee, chaired by former India captain Anil Kumble and featuring former players such as Andrew Strauss, Mahela Jayawardena, Rahul Dravid and Shaun Pollock, will “consider issues arising from the World Cup final” at their next meeting in early 2020.

That could leave open the possibility that the boundary countback rule could be changed ahead of the men’s T20 World Cup, to be played in Australia in October-November 2020.

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