The Nepal and Netherlands cricket teams created history on Monday (June 16) during a T20I match in the ongoing tri-series, which also involved Scotland at the Titwood Cricket Ground in Glasgow, as the two teams played a match that will be remembered for ages.

The game, which is only the second match of the tournament and the first one for Nepal, saw an incredible finish as the match ended in a tie. The Netherlands posted a total of 152 while batting first, while Nepal managed to level the scores in a dramatic finish as Nandan Yadav scored a boundary on the last ball of the match.

In the first super over, Nepal made 19 runs batting first, but the Netherlands equalled the score as Max ODowd hit a six and a boundary on the last ball. This forced the game into a second super over, marking only the second instance of an international match (men's cricket) in any format seeing two super overs after a T20I between India and Afghanistan in January 2024 at Bengaluru.

The second attempt to produce a result also saw a similar result as the Netherlands posted 17 on the board and Nepal levelled with Dipendra Singh Airee hitting a six on the last ball.

This led the match to a third super-over, which saw cricket's records books being rewritten as never before in any professional cricket match either international or domestic, had any match in either format gone to a third super over. In ODIs, T20Is, List A Cricket, or T20 cricket, there has never been an instance of this happening.

While history was created, the third supe over proved to be anti-climax with Nepal losing both wickets without scoring a run. Michael Levitt scored a first-ball six to ensure the Netherlands sealed a victory.

A Maharaja T20 League (Karnataka State Cricket Association's League) match between Hubli Tigers and Bengaluru Blasters last year at the Chinnaswamy Stadium saw three super overs. State T20 league games do not count as officially recognised T20 games and hence the Nepal-Netherlands one is the first instance in an official match.

Post the 2019 World Cup final, which was decided on boundary count after the Super Over finished as a tie, the lawmakers of the sport changed the rule and decided that if a match goes into super overs, the one-over tie-breaker will be played multiple times. The first instance of such a match was in the 2020 IPL between the Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians at Dubai.

Alongside the India-Afghanistan and Nepal-Netherlands clash, a women's T20I match between Fiji and France earlier this season also saw two super-overs. This was the first and only women's match to see this rare event. No match in the female game has also ever seen three super-overs.

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