This game simply refuses to breathe.<\/p>\n
After Afghanistan were run out off the final ball of regulation time to force a Super Over, the drama only intensified as the first Super Over ended in a tie \u2014 setting up yet another decider.<\/p>\n
Lungi Ngidi had the ball. Azmatullah Omarzai and Rahmanullah Gurbaz walked out, with Mohammad Nabi padded up.<\/p>\n
Ball 1 \u2013 FOUR:<\/strong> Ball 2 \u2013 SIX:<\/strong> Ball 3 \u2013 1 run:<\/strong> Ball 4 \u2013 1 run:<\/strong> Ball 5 \u2013 FOUR:<\/strong> Ball 6 \u2013 1 run:<\/strong> Target: 18.<\/p>\n David Miller and Dewald Brevis stepped out first. Tristan Stubbs padded up as the third batter. Fazalhaq Farooqi took responsibility with the ball.<\/p>\n Ball 1 \u2013 1 run:<\/strong> Ball 2 \u2013 SIX:<\/strong> Ball 3 \u2013 OUT:<\/strong> Ball 4 \u2013 FOUR:<\/strong> Ball 5 \u2013 DOT:<\/strong> Ball 6 \u2013 SIX:<\/strong> 17 plays 17.<\/p>\n The Super Over is tied.<\/p>\n This T20 World Cup clash has now delivered a run-out off a free-hit, two clutch boundary-line moments, and a tied Super Over \u2014 and the madness is not done yet.<\/p>\n Another Super Over beckons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This game simply refuses to breathe. After Afghanistan were run out off the final ball of regulation time to force\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":44007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4641],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-t20-world-cup"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44008,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44006\/revisions\/44008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLow full-toss on off, Azmat stays deep and squeezes it between backward point and short third. Afghanistan 4\/0.<\/p>\n
\nSlower off-cutter, full outside off. Azmat lofts over long-off. Marco Jansen leaps but it clears him. Afghanistan 10\/0.<\/p>\n
\nLow full-toss outside off, driven to sweeper cover. 11\/0.<\/p>\n
\nSlower off-cutter again, Gurbaz mistimes to long-on. 12\/0.<\/p>\n
\nLength ball outside off. Azmat slashes. Rabada runs, dives, catches airborne \u2014 but as he falls, the ball rolls over the boundary cushions. Agonising moment for South Africa. Afghanistan 16\/0.<\/p>\n
\nPinpoint yorker. Dug out to short fine. They don\u2019t attempt the second. Afghanistan finish on 17\/0.<\/p>\n
\nSouth Africa Super Over \u2013 17\/1<\/h3>\n
\nFull-toss outside off. Miller mistimes to long-on. Just one.<\/p>\n
\nShort outside off from round the wicket. Brevis goes back and smashes a 97m pull over deep mid-wicket. 7\/0.<\/p>\n
\nSlower bouncer, off-cutter dug in. Brevis is early on the pull, top-edge to Gurbaz. Afghanistan roar. 7\/1.<\/p>\n
\nYorker length just outside off. Stubbs drives, thick bottom-edge flies past Gurbaz to third man. Fortune with South Africa. 11 off 3 becomes 7 off 2.<\/p>\n
\nFull on off. Stubbs drills it straight back. Farooqi stops it. South Africa need 6 off 1 to force another tie.<\/p>\n
\nFarooqi misses his length. Stubbs launches it over the boundary. We are level again.<\/p>\n