Titwood (Glasgow): First-ever triple Super Over played out in international cricket in
tri-series meeting between the Netherlands and Nepal.
The Nepal men's national team lived up to their "Cardiac Kids" moniker once more, though were this time on the wrong side of another international thriller, losing a tri-series T20I to The Netherlands in a never-seen-before third Super Over on Monday.
After 40 overs failed to separate the two teams in Glasgow, both scoring 152 in their respective innings, the teams walked back out for the first Super Over, both plundering 19 runs in six balls. Having taken the match to a second Super Over through a Max O'Dowd four, the Dutch batted first in the second Super Over, hitting 13 runs off the first three balls, though were held at the end of the over through a wicket to Lalit Rajbanshi to finish with 17.
It was Nepal's turn to match the lofty six-ball score set, with Rohit Paudel and Dipendra Singh Airee combining with 17 between them, capped off with an Airee six to trigger unprecedented scenes in the international game, an ICC report said.
Eventually, it was the Dutch to hold their nerve, with Zach Lion-Cachet's spin taking two wickets and ending Nepal's third crack at breaking the deadlock, with the Dutch youngster also at the other end for Michael Levitt's six to finally finish proceedings.
It's the first time a men's professional T20 match has needed a third Super Over across domestic, franchise, and International cricket.
Earlier, it was the heroics of Nepali newcomer Nandan Yadav which denied the Dutch victory in regulation overs, hitting two boundaries, including one from the last ball, to tie the match up.
