Three Super Over match: There was a lot of excitement on the cricket field on 23 August in Maharaja T20 Trophy. Hubli Tigers registered a thrilling win after three super overs. Playing first, Hubli Tigers scored 164 runs. In reply, Bengaluru Blasters also managed to score 164 runs. After this the match went into super over. Probably for the first time in cricket history, three super overs were seen in a single match.
Hubli Tigers won a thrilling match of Maharaja T-20 Trophy at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Friday in a thrilling match in which the two teams locked horns in three super overs.
The Bengaluru Blasters team was able to score only five out of the remaining six runs to defeat Hubli in the stipulated time with three wickets remaining. Ganeshwar Naveen gave the Blasters the lead by hitting a four on the first ball of the 20th over, but was out on the very next ball.
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LR Kumar then bowled two dot balls, after which Lavish Kaushal was retired out on the fifth ball, while he and his fellow batsman Kranti Kumar also took a bye run. Kranti was run out while trying to save a run on the last ball, taking the game into a Super Over.
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First Super Over
Bengaluru Blasters captain Mayank Agarwal was out on the first ball, but thanks to Anirudh Joshi’s six on the last ball, the team made a comeback and scored 10 runs. Manish Pandey hit a big shot when the Tigers needed eight runs from three, but when the score was 2 runs from 1 ball, Pandey was caught by bowler Kaushal, then the Tigers equalized the super over by taking one run.
second super over
Pandey came out to open the innings with Manwant Kumar this time. Manwant was the player who defended 164 runs in this match and took 4 wickets for 33 runs, before this he also played an innings of 28 runs in 15 balls. But in the second super over, he and Pandey could score only eight runs. After this, fast bowler Vidwat Kaverappa bowled brilliantly for his team. Despite conceding a boundary in the beginning, he gave only four more runs, due to which the game went into the third super over.
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third super over game
In the third super over, Bangalore Blasters batted first. Aniruddha Joshi and Shubhangi Hegde came to open. But Manwant dismissed Aniruddha on the very first ball. But on the last ball, Shubhangi Hegde hit a six on backward point and took the score of Blasters to 12 runs.
After this, it was the turn of Hubli Tigers. Manwant Kumar and captain Manish Pandey came to open the innings. Kranti Kumar was bowling. He took the game forward by hitting a four on the second ball. But Kranti made a strong comeback and gave only three runs on the next three balls (one of them was an extra). Tigers now needed four runs on the last ball and Manwant hit a four to win the match.
Scorecard of the match with three super
Hubli Tigers 164 (Manish Pandey 33, Mohammad Taha 31, Lavish Kaushal 5-17)
Bengaluru Blasters 164 (Mayank Agarwal 54, Manwant Kumar 4-33, Vidvat Kaverappa 2-35)
Match Result: Tigers won in the third super over