{"id":50477,"date":"2026-04-26T23:31:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=50477"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:03:56","slug":"ipl-2026-shami-holds-his-nerve-smashes-final-ball-six-and-drags-game-into-super-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-shami-holds-his-nerve-smashes-final-ball-six-and-drags-game-into-super-over\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Last-ball madness as Shami launches six, match heads to Super Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Super Over drama after late twist<\/h3>\n<p>Lucknow Super Giants and Kolkata Knight Riders finished level on 155, forced into a Super Over by Mohammed Shami\u2019s last-ball six. With seven needed off two, Shami stayed still, trusted the length, and hit straight. It was clean and decisive. For a bowler by trade, it was exactly what was required in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>In the dugout, Dwayne Bravo looked stunned. LSG had no right to get there, but Shami\u2019s finish changed that. He made it a Super Over.<\/p>\n<h3>Last over turns the game<\/h3>\n<p>Defending 155, KKR turned to Kartik Tyagi. The over lost shape quickly. Two high full-toss no-balls disrupted the plan, and the field kept changing. Himmat Singh struck a boundary off the free hit to keep LSG alive.<\/p>\n<p>The equation came down to seven off two. Tyagi missed the yorker and offered pace on a hittable length. Shami did not overhit. He got into position and struck through the line. That single shot erased everything that came before.<\/p>\n<h3>Match shaped by earlier chaos<\/h3>\n<p>The tie followed a game already tilted by Mohsin Khan\u2019s five-wicket haul and a controversial obstructing-the-field call involving Angkrish Raghuvanshi.<\/p>\n<p>KKR\u2019s 155 for 7 looked enough for long periods. It wasn\u2019t. Shami, the batter, did what was needed at the end and took the game beyond 40 overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Over drama after late twist Lucknow Super Giants and Kolkata Knight Riders finished level on 155, forced into a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":50479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50477","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\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50480,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50477\/revisions\/50480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}