Cobras clinch Super Over thriller

Sep 26, 2014

Barbados Tridents, having been inserted, were dealt an early blow when Charl Langeveldt dismissed Shane Dowrich for a duck•BCCI

Dilshan Munaweera counterattacked with a 21-ball 42•BCCI

Carter made Cobras pay for the drop, as he thumped 10 fours and five sixes, and raised his maiden Twenty20 century to lift Tridents to 174•BCCI

Amla, however, rode his luck during the knock. He was dropped in the first over, and was later caught by Munaweera in the deep, but the bowler Hosein had overstepped for a no-ball •BCCI

Set 12 for victory, Carter, facing Engelbrecht in the last ball, needed a four. However, he could only hit a full toss for two, as Cobras kept their semi-final hopes alive with a narrow win•BCCI

Things got worse when Raymon Reifer was run out after a mix-up, and Tridents were 7 for 2•BCCI

He added 75 in the company of Jonathan Carter, who was aggressive from the get go•BCCI

Cobras began the chase brightly, racing to 56 inside five overs before Akeal Hosein bowled out the opener Richard Levi•BCCI

Jeevan Mendis turned the game in Tridents' favour by collecting 4 for 27 to dent Cobras' chase•BCCI

Carter could have departed for 26 itself had Sybrand Engelbrecht not fluffed a catch at long on•BCCI

Hashim Amla kept the team on track by scoring his first fifty of the tournament. He made 59 off 42 balls•BCCI

With 13 needed off the final over, Engelbrecht kept nudging away for twos to bring the equation down to three needed off the final ball. Engelbrecht ran two, with Tridents missing a simple run-out chance, to send the game into a Super Over•BCCI