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The tie eliminator in T20

A tie is not a tie in Twenty20.

There is the concept of tiebreaker for Twenty20 internationals. The eliminator had been bowl out for quite some time... As the bowl out just involved bowlers from either side attempting to hit the wickets through their bowling, some considered this to be unfair...



In bowl out, each team nominates 5 bowlers who will bowl a ball each taking turns.. The team with the maximum number of hits to the wickets over the other team wins, and the points are awarded to that team.. If each team has hit the same number of wickets after the first five balls per side, the bowling continues and is decided by sudden death ( as soon as one team is ahead ).. First ever bowl-out was in NZ against WI in 2006 but it came to light when India beat a hapless Pakistan in it.. (World Cup, match went well into midnight)..



The "wise heads" then decided that this is unfair and just as the game involves both batsmen and bowlers the tie breaker also has to.. So, in July 2008 the Super Over, replaced the bowl-out as the official tool to decide tie breaker.. Ironically, NZ and WIN were the two teams involved in it with WIN winning it this time with some GAYLE power..

Both the teams get to play one over each after the match, and the team that wins that contest is the winner:so it's like having a One1 to resolve a Twenty20 tie.

Both sides have to nominate three batsmen and one bowler each for the eliminator. A team can be bowled out in the traditional sense, if it loses two wickets. The bowler and batsmen, once nominated, cannot be changed. The eliminator is played with the same fielding restrictions as those in place for a normal Twenty20 international. The team that batted second in the actual match bats first.

Now what if the teams are tied at the end of the super over as well?
In case of a second tie, the total number of sixes hit - in the main match and in the eliminator - becomes the tiebreaker. If the teams are still tied, the team that has hit the most boundaries - fours and sixes - in the eliminator is declared the winner. Don't ask what happens if its still a tie, I too do not know.. :-)

But why can't people take a tie as a tie and move ahead.. Super over too is not convincing enough... May be we will come up with "what is the par score in a One1 match ?" sooner rather than later... This concept is just like having a single final for a month long or a 2 month long tournaments..
Accepting a tie as a tie is the best solution...