First match decided by bowl-out A bowl-out was first used in the
NatWest Trophy in June 1991 in a match between
Derbyshire and
Minor County side
Hertfordshire at
Bishops Stortford. Derbyshire bowled first and
Steve Goldsmith managed one hit from his two deliveries.
Ole Mortensen,
Alan Warner,
Frank Griffith and
Simon Base all missed with both of theirs. Hertfordshire's first bowler,
Andy Needham, hit with his first ball but missed with his second.
John Carr missed with both of his, but
Bill Merry struck middle stump with his second attempt to win the match. A second match was decided by bowl-out later that day as
Surrey beat
Oxfordshire 3–2.
International cricket The
International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced the bowl-out should scores be tied in the semifinals and final of the
2006 ICC Champions Trophy or the
2007 Cricket World Cup, although it was not required to be used in either tournament. At the ICC Annual Conference 2008 it was decided that the bowl-out should be replaced by a one-over "eliminator" (also called a "
Super Over") in the
2008 ICC Champions Trophy (postponed to 2009) and the
2009 ICC World Twenty20. ==Twenty20==