List of tied One Day Internationals

There have been 25 tied One Day International cricket matches out of over 2,900 played since 1971. In cricket, a One Day International (ODI) is tied if the match ends with each team having scored exactly the same number of runs and with the side batting second having completed its innings with all 10 batsmen being out or the pre-determined number of overs having been completed. In a rain-affected match, the match is tied if the Duckworth-Lewis method indicates that the second team exactly meets but does not exceed the par score. There are also two further matches where the scores ended level, but one side was declared the winner, because it lost fewer wickets.

Tied matches were relatively rare in the first two decades of ODIs. ODIs had been played for 13 years before the first tie in 1984, in the 247th ODI. There was a gap of 5 years until the second tied ODI, in 1989, in the 567th ODI. However, since 1991, a further 21 tied ODIs have occurred in approximately 2,400 matches.

Every Test-playing nation has been involved in a tied ODI except Bangladesh, with Australia involved in the most (eight) including three ties with South Africa. There has been at least one tied ODI in every Test-playing nation except Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, with the most (four) in both Australia and South Africa.

On February 16, 2006, New Zealand and the West Indies tied a Twenty20 match in Auckland, sending the game in to a bowl-off. Another bowl-off was required at the 2007 Twenty20 World Championship in the group match between India and Pakistan which was tied.

Tied ODIs

World Cup matches are highlighted in green. In some ODIs, the team that had lost fewer wickets would be declared the winner if the scores ended exactly level. This was the case in two further matches:

See also

• List of tied first-class cricket matches
• Tied Test

Notes

1. ^ The series ended 1-1 with one match tied. For the purpose of deciding the winner of the series, England were considered as the winner of this match as they lost fewer wickets.
2. ^ West Indies needed six runs off the last 10 overs, but had only one wicket in hand, when Sachin Tendulkar was called on to bowl. He gave away five runs, leaving the scores level, but took the last wicket, that of Anderson Cummins, with the last ball of his only over of the match.
3. ^ Asif Mujtaba hit the last ball from Steve Waugh for six when Pakistan needed seven runs to win.
4. ^ The crowd invaded the ground while the last ball was in still in play. West Indies scored the two runs that they needed to win but the match referee Raman Subba Row intervened to declare the match a tie.
5. ^ Well set on 142 for 4, Waqar Younis tore through the New Zealand side, with 6 wickets falling for 19 runs, with Younis ending on 6-30.
6. ^ Pakistan needed seven runs in the last over with two wickets in hand. Aamer Nazir was out first ball, and Wasim Akram came in at number 11 to bat one handed, with the other hand in bandages. He had left the field while bowling in the first innings to receive six stitches after injuring himself attempting to take a return catch. He watched from the non-strikers end as Saeed Anwar reach his century, 103 not out. A single leg bye left the scores level, but brought Akram to the stiker's end. He hit his first and only ball, a full toss, straight back to the bowler, Guy Whittall, to be caught and bowled.
7. ^ Well set on 140 for 6, Sri Lanka lost their last four wickets for 19 runs, with Danny Morrison taking 5-34.
8. ^ India needed two runs off the last ball with one wicket in hand. Eddo Brandes bowled a wide (which tied the scores), the batsmen attempted a bye and Robin Singh was run out ending the innings.
9. ^ England needed 7 to win off the final over with 4 wickets in hand. Craig White (number 7) was 38 not out, and Dominic Cork (number 8) was 31 not out. Geoff Allott bowled a dot ball; the second ball went for a single bye; White was run out off the third ball attempting a second run; new batsman Robert Croft hit a four off his first ball but was bowled by the second; and Darren Gough missed the last ball but the batsmen scrambled a bye to tie the match.
10. ^ Australia needed four runs in the last ball. The batsmen ran two but a crowd invasion of the ground prevented them from scoring the tying run or the fielders from completing a run out. The match referee, Raman Subba Row awarded them the third run anyway.
11. ^ 1999 Cricket World Cup semi-final. Australia progressed to the final on the basis of being ahead of South Africa in the prior round robin portion of the tournament.
12. ^ Sri Lanka collapsed from 157 for 1 to 196 all out.
13. ^ Australia were 213 for 6 at the end of the 48th over, needing 14 runs to win with 4 wickets in hand. They lost two wickets (Michael Bevan and Steve Waugh) for one run in the 49th over
14. ^ Staggering at 223 for 9 in the 45th over, Australia's last wicket pair (number 6, Jimmy Maher, and number 11, Nathan Hauritz) put on 36 runs, but could only level the scores.
15. ^ 2003 Cricket World Cup pool match. Duckworth-Lewis method. The scores were tied before the last ball but, unaware of this, the batsmen did not attempt to score.
16. ^ Standing at 263 for 5 at the start of the final over, to be bowled by Kabir Ali, South Africa needed 8 runs to win. After a no ball hit for four, Mark Boucher was caught off the first legitimate ball, then a dot ball and single for Shaun Pollock, Ashwell Prince was run out off the fourth ball, a further single for Pollock, and Andrew Hall was stumped by Geraint Jones off the final ball.
17. ^ England were in trouble at 33-5 in the first 10 overs, but Paul Collingwood and Geraint Jones both hit fifties to bring them back into the match, but they fell in the 43rd and 44th overs. In the end, the tail was unable to score the 10 runs required from the last over.
18. ^ 2007 Cricket World Cup pool match. Zimbabwe was in control with only 15 runs needed from 36 balls with 4 wickets intact. However, 3 wickets fell for a single run, before the score ending up tied after the second last ball. Needing a single to win on the last ball, Ed Rainsford was run out instead.
19. ^ New Zealand needed seven runs to win from the final over. Jamie How was run out off the second-to-last ball. Needing two runs to win off the final ball, Daniel Vettori could manage only a single.
20. ^ From 281 for 2, England collapsed to 307 for 7, and they required 29 runs of the last two overs to win. The penultimate over from Piyush Chawla produced 15 runs, with Greame Swan and Bresnan hitting one six each, but Bresnan was bowled trying to smash one more. England needed 14 of the last over from Munaf Patel. Swan took 2 runs and 1 run in the first 2 balls, bringing the new batsman Ahmed Shehzad on strike. The first ball he faced, he smashed it straight for a six, leaving 5 of the remaining 3 balls. The next ball, they stole a bye. The penultimate ball, Swan got an inside edge, and eked two runs. Two to win, and one to tie in the last ball. Swan smashed the last ball to mid-off, where Pathan dives and fields, but fumbles little, and they take a single to tie the match.
21. ^ England by Duckworth-Lewis method.
22. ^ Pakistan was 211 for 6 before the last ball. Abdul Qadir was run out going for the second run and India won as they had lost fewer wickets. If the batsmen had not attempted the second run, Pakistan would have won as they were ahead after 25 overs.
23. ^ Both the teams scored 229, but Pakistan were declared winners as they lost 7 wickets to Australia's 8.

References

• Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
• List of first 19 tied ODIs, with scores, notes and man-of-the-match
• Stories of Tied ODIs and Tests
• List of first 20 tied ODIs, with team scores
• List of all tied ODIs