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Pretty amazing ending in a tie.
I think the bowlers will be doing a bit of bowling without batsmen before they finish training in future.



West Indies 126/7 (20/20 ov)
New Zealand 126/8 (20.0/20 ov) Match Tied

West Indies RR: 6.30
New Zealand RR: 6.30


Full Scorecard




Batsmen: R B 4s 6s S/R
JEC Franklin (LHB) 13 9 0 1 144.44 Striker
SE Bond (RHB) 8 4 1 0 200.00 Non-striker


Bowlers: O M R W Econ
CH Gayle (OB) 4.0 0 22 2 5.50 (0nb, 0w)
IDR Bradshaw (LFM) 4 0 22 0 5.50 (0nb, 1w)


Recent Overs: 2 . . 2 1 1 | . W 1 1 . 1 | 1 2 W 1 1 2 | 2 6 1 1 L1 4 |

Current Partnership: 19 runs, 1.3 overs, RR: 12.67


Last Wicket: 107/8 (18.3 ov); Partnership: 6 runs, 1.1 overs, RR: 5.14
PG Fulton b Gayle 16 (25m 17b 0x4 0x6) SR: 94.12
First ball up, Astle misses the stump, just went past the off stump
Second ball from Astle, again in the corridoor of uncertainty,
misses teh off stump again
Its going to be Dwayne Smith who will take a crack at the stumps
for West Indies
Dwayne Smith bwols way down the legside, no help to his team this
delivery
Down the leg stump again, After the first round, both teams are yet
to hit
Jeetan Patel for NZ now, bowling spin and misses outside off stump
Jeetan Patel with his second ball misses again outside off stump
Chris Gayle called in to bowl
Gayle bowls medium pace misses outside off stump
Chris Gayle with his second ball comes around wicket medium pace
and misses outside off stump
Chris Cairns, in his final international encoutner has been handed
the ball
Chris Cairns first ball misses outside off stump
Cairns' second delivery, down the leg side again
We've had two rounds now and not a single bowler has hit the stumps
Jerome Taylor has been handed the ball now
Taylor's first ball misses the offstump
Taylors second ball misses again outside off
Shane Bond handed the ball now
Shane Bond strikes! first ball crashes into the stumps, hits middle
stump and puts New Zealand 1-0 up
Second ball from Shane Bond, full toss smashes the middle stump
again, its New Zealand 2-0 up now!
Bradshaw handed the ball now, first delivery slides down the leg
stump
Second ball misses down the leg
Styris given the ball
He just needs to hit one for New Zealand to win
Styris's first ball hits the middle stump and New Zealand pull off
a fantastic win in bowl off

Its pretty funny that out of the 17 balls bowled, only ball 13,14 and 17 actually hit the stumps! Probably came in and bowled very slowly, just trying to hit the stumps. Will never hit doing that.

I have never heard of this tie-break play off before, let alone heard of it happening!!

Is it kind of like a penalty shoot-out like in soccer? Obviously each bowler has two goes at bowling the balls at the stumps. What are the rules regarding bowling action ie in theory you could just underarm the ball hard at the stumps, or a spin bowler might be more accurate if he bowled faster of a couple more steps, and vice versa for a fast bowler?

Underarm has been banned.

Can anyone think of a more stupid way to decide a match?

... other than a thumbwar or rock-paper-scissors?

Wouldn't the most logical and fair way be to go by who lost the least amount of wickets, which means that West Indies would have won!?!


I can't see the point of bowling the ball at the stumps to decide who wins the game. Why not have each bowler bowl two balls to a batsman and see who can hit the most sixes? At least that way you involve both batsmen & bowlers in deciding the outcome of the match, and it would be more entertaining.

Or you could do what traditionally would have happen - called the match a tie and left it at that!

blink wrote:Or you could do what traditionally would have happen - called the match a tie and left it at that!

I-rection. Or, if the result must be decided, why not have 2 x 5 overs each, full scale match? Maybe that's not logcal, due to time constraints, but if they must have a result...