
Time limits defined for recurring Super Over clashes
The number of Super Overs to break the tie in an IPL game may not be infinite, but the Super Overs will go on until a winner is found. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) expects the tie to be broken within one hour of its start. It also allows for one unsuccessful DRS during the Super Overs.
Rules of the Super Over
- A Super Over involves each team facing an over of six balls, and the winner shall be the team scoring the greater number of runs, irrespective of the number of wickets lost.
- The loss of two wickets in the over ends the team's one-over innings.
- If the Super Over is a tie, subsequent Super Overs shall be played until a winner is determined.
- The Super Over shall be played until completion, but if there are any delays or interruptions during the Super Over, extra time is allocated to complete the Super Over or any subsequent Super Overs.
- The Super Over shall take place on the pitch allocated for the match, unless otherwise determined by the umpires in consultation with the Ground Authority and IPL Match Referee.
- Only nominated players in the match (including Concussion Replacements) may participate in the Super Over.
- Any penalty time being served in the match shall be carried forward to the Super Over.
- The umpires shall stand at the same end as that in which they finished the match.
- The team batting second in the match shall bat first in the Super Over.
- Each team shall be allowed to have one unsuccessful Player Review in each Super Over.
- The fielding side shall choose the end from which it is to bowl its one over.
- The Super Over shall be played with the same fielding restrictions as would be applicable for the last over in a match played in an uninterrupted match.
- The interval between the two overs in the Super Over shall be 5 minutes.
Tied Super Over – Repeating
- If the Super Over is tied, then subsequent Super Overs shall be played until there is a winner.
- In normal circumstances, any subsequent Super Over will start 5 minutes after the previous Super Over ends.
- The team batting second in the previous Super Over will bat first in the subsequent Super Over.
- The balls selected for use by each team in the previous Super Over shall be used again by the same team in subsequent Super Over(s).
- The fielding side must bowl its over in a subsequent Super Over from the opposite end to which it bowled from in the previous Super Over.
- Any batter dismissed in any previous Super Over shall be ineligible to bat in the following Super Over.
- Any bowler who bowled in the previous Super Over shall be ineligible to bowl in the subsequent Super Over.
- In all other ways, the procedure for a subsequent Super Over shall be the same as for the initial Super Over.
Super Over Unable to be Completed
- Where the Super Over or subsequent Super Overs are abandoned for any reason prior to the completion, then the match shall be declared a tie and points allocated as in Clause 16.10.1