ICC to rectify match officials’ 'human error': Super Over rule to be implemented in next two matches

By: Bipin Dani

(Daily Mirror) - The International Cricket Council (ICC) has sent a notification to its match officials to implement the Super Over rule for the next two ODI matches, if it happens to be a tie at the end of the 50-over match. This was confirmed by one of the top officials. 

It was a human error on the part of the match officials who did not implement the rule at the end of the 50-over match which ended in a tie after both teams had levelled the score of 230 runs and the Indian team lost all batters in the 48th over of their innings. 

The match officials were under the impression that the Super Over is played only when it is a tournament but the ICC has notified the rule in December last year. 

The new rule in force is: 

• 16.3 All other matches - A Tie or No Result
• 16.3.1 A Tie

If the teams scores are equal after both innings have been completed (if applicable under DLS-see clause 16.4), then a Super Over shall be played. If the Super Over is a tie, then unless exceptional circumstances arise, subsequent Super Overs shall be played until there is a winner. Should it not be possible to play or to complete the Super Overs needed to determine a winner, the match shall be tied. 

With the match officials' oversight, it took 149 ODIs for the first tied game at the R. Premadasa Stadium on Friday.