The 9 Most disastrous experiments in Cricket

4. Bowl Out:

Similar to a penalty shootout in football a bowl out in cricket followed a tied T20I game. Five bowlers from each side deliver one ball each at an unguarded wicket and the team that hits the maximum times win. If the scores are tied even in the bowl out the procedure continues and the outcome is decided by sudden death. The bowl out was used as a tie breaker for the first time between New Zealand and West Indies on February 2006 and the Kiwis won that one. Memorably, during the 2007 World Twenty20, India won 3-0 in the bowl out against Pakistan in Durban. Deemed as unpopular, 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”)  Considering the Super Over’s popularity the bowl out rule never quite came back into reckoning.