GOODBYE, NOT-SO-SUPER TIEBREAK

NOBODY will ever win the Cricket World Cup quite like England in 2019, and that is a fact. Nobody can now because the way England won it (right) is to be abolished. The International Cricket Council’s new tiebreak rules at the end of the deciding Super Over will be for a second Super Over. Not, as happened this summer, a random countback through boundaries scored in the game. It always seemed like the last idea of an overrunning meeting anyway. The item on the schedule that is raised just as everybody is packing up, checking their watches, dashing for the last train or wondering if the restaurant will hold their reservation. ‘And suppose the Super Over is a draw?’ chimes one keen soul. ‘Er, what? Well, then, er, we’ll just give it to, er... whoever hit the most fours. Yes, that’s it. Write that down. It’s never going to happen anyway, is it? Hello? Yes, darling, I know, I’m on my way...’ So, all things considered, it could have been worse. Rock, paper, scissors, perhaps?