List of All Super Overs in ODI Cricket
Witnessing Super overs in ODI cricket is extremely rare as witnessing six 6s in an over. Whenever a Super Over incident happens in cricket, it automatically increases the excitement everywhere, and it does not matter which team or format is involved in that super-over. Both teams get six balls to focus on each of the innings, irrespective of what happened in the entire day.
A Super is played in an ODI match usually when there is a tie; it means a chasing team ended their innings at the same score as the defending team scored in the 1st innings or when playing overs are lost due to bad weather, etc., to decide a result of the match. So far, all the super overs in ODI cricket have been played due to Tie results only.
List of All Super Overs in ODI Cricket
1) England vs New Zealand 2019 World Cup Final
One of the most controversial games where along with the match, the super over was tied as well. England was handed over the World Cup trophy due to the maximum boundary count; check the scorecard. This was the first ever super over match of the ODI cricket, which also ended with a tie result, but a team was declared the winner due to the maximum boundary count. And after this game, ICC changed the rules of the super overs in ODI, and T20I both.
2) Pakistan vs Zimbabwe 2020 3rd ODI (Zimbabwe tour of Pakistan 2020)
Pakistan, while chasing 279 runs, could not complete the chase but was able to tie the match; check the scorecard here. Pakistan batted first during the Super Over stage and scored just two runs. It was all Zimbabwe’s game because they had to chase down just three runs in an over, which they did in just three deliveries.
3) West Indies vs Netherlands 2023 World Cup Qualifiers Group A Stage
The Netherlands completely outplayed West Indies during the chase of a mammoth total of 375 runs; while batting first, West Indies scored 374 runs, and when it came to chasing, the Netherlands were not close anywhere till the 48th over. But Logan Van Beek played a magical inning and almost won the match, but the West Indies Alzzari Joseph pacer dragged the game to the super over. Where Logan Van Beek smacked Jason Holder for 30 runs in the six deliveries of the super over and took two wickets as well. This will probably stay as one of the best and the most special super overs in ODI cricket for many years.
