Cricket produces drama in every format. But nothing in the sport – not a World Cup final, not a last-ball six, not a century under pressure – quite matches the concentrated electricity of an IPL Super Over. Six deliveries. Two wickets maximum. An entire tournament’s context distilled into a single over.
The IPL super over list now runs to 16 entries across 18 seasons – and every single one of those matches has delivered something that a standard 20-over game simply cannot manufacture. The most recent addition came on April 26, 2026, at Lucknow’s Ekana Stadium, where Mohammed Shami – a number-ten batter who had no business being the hero – smashed a last-ball six off Kartik Tyagi to tie the scores at 155 and force a Super Over. What followed was Sunil Narine at his most terrifying: three balls, two dismissals of Nicholas Pooran and Aiden Markram, and just 1 run conceded – the lowest Super Over score in IPL history. Rinku Singh finished it with a boundary off the first ball he faced. Sixteen Super Overs in. The format still surprises me.
What Is a Super Over and How Does It Work in IPL 2026?
A Super Over is the T20 cricket equivalent of a penalty shootout – a sudden-death extension designed to produce a result when both teams finish their 20 overs with identical scores. The basic mechanics are well-known to regular cricket fans, but IPL 2026 operates under a specific updated set of rules worth understanding before you sit down for a match.
Each team nominates up to three batters and one bowler for the Super Over. The team that batted second in the main match bats first in the Super Over. The innings concludes the moment two wickets fall, regardless of how many deliveries have been bowled. The bowler who delivered the final over of the regular innings is not eligible to bowl the Super Over – meaning captains often face an interesting puzzle about which of their remaining bowlers to trust with the biggest overs of the game.
The rules were substantially updated following the controversial boundary-count finish in the 2019 Cricket World Cup Final. The most important change: if the Super Over itself results in a tie, another Super Over is immediately bowled – and the process continues until a winner is found. IPL 2026 has also introduced a 60-minute time window within which the Super Over must be completed once the main match ends. In playoff situations, if circumstances prevent a Super Over from being completed, the higher-placed league-stage team advances.
| Scenario | IPL 2026 Rule |
| Regular match tie | Super Over is played |
| Super Over also ties | Additional Super Overs until winner found |
| Playoff Super Over interrupted | Higher league-stage team wins |
| No play possible | Match abandoned – 1 point each |
| Time restriction | Must complete within 60 minutes of match end |
The Complete IPL Super Over List from 2009 to 2026
In 18 IPL seasons spanning three continents, six different host nations, and the full career arcs of multiple generations of cricketers, only 16 matches have been level after 40 overs. Each one is listed below – with the tied score, venue, and Super Over winner.
The standout data points from the full IPL super over list: the highest tied score is 201 – a number that feels impossible until you recall it happened in IPL 2020. The lowest tied score is 130, from a seamer-friendly evening in Hyderabad in 2013. The lowest Super Over score is 1 run – set in April 2026, a record that genuinely may stand for years. And Delhi Capitals (previously Daredevils) have appeared in more Super Overs than any other franchise, and won more of them too.
| # | Year | Match | Venue | Tied Score | Winner |
| 1 | 2009 | KKR vs RR | Cape Town | 150 | Rajasthan Royals |
| 2 | 2010 | CSK vs PBKS | Chennai | 136 | Punjab Kings |
| 3 | 2013 | SRH vs RCB | Hyderabad | 130 | Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| 4 | 2013 | RCB vs DD | Bengaluru | 152 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru |
| 5 | 2014 | KKR vs RR | Abu Dhabi | 152 | Rajasthan Royals |
| 6 | 2015 | KXIP vs RR | Ahmedabad | 191 | Kings XI Punjab |
| 7 | 2017 | GL vs MI | Rajkot | 153 | Mumbai Indians |
| 8 | 2019 | DC vs KKR | Delhi | 185 | Delhi Capitals |
| 9 | 2019 | MI vs SRH | Mumbai | 162 | Mumbai Indians |
| 10 | 2020 | DC vs KXIP | Dubai | 157 | Delhi Capitals |
| 11 | 2020 | RCB vs MI | Dubai | 201 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru |
| 12 | 2020 | SRH vs KKR | Abu Dhabi | 163 | Kolkata Knight Riders |
| 13 | 2020 | MI vs PBKS | Dubai | 176 | Kings XI Punjab (double) |
| 14 | 2021 | DC vs SRH | Chennai | 159 | Delhi Capitals |
| 15 | 2025 | DC vs RR | Delhi | 188 | Delhi Capitals |
| 16 | 2026 | LSG vs KKR | Lucknow | 155 | Kolkata Knight Riders |
Of the 16 entries, eight have been won by the team that batted first – and eight by the team that batted second. The 50/50 split across 17 years of competition is a reminder that Super Over advantage is not baked into the toss or the batting order. It belongs to the players who handle the six-ball pressure best.
The Super Over That Started It All – KKR vs RR in 2009
Every record has a beginning. The opening entry in the IPL super over history book came on April 23, 2009, in Cape Town – during the second edition of the IPL, which had been relocated to South Africa following concerns around the Indian general elections. Neither Kolkata Knight Riders nor Rajasthan Royals had any frame of reference for what was about to happen. Nobody in the IPL did.
Both teams had scored 150 in their 20 overs. The Super Over format was theoretical for most players – explained in the rulebook but never experienced in practice. KKR batted first in the Super Over and posted 15/1 off their six deliveries against the RR bowling, a total that felt competitive but not insurmountable on the small Cape Town ground.
Then Yusuf Pathan arrived.
One of the most fearsome strikers of his era, Pathan treated Ajantha Mendis – a spinner who had confused the best batters in the world throughout IPL 2009 – with absolute contempt. He hit three boundaries in four deliveries, taking the score to 18/0 in just 0.4 overs. Rajasthan Royals had won cricket’s first-ever IPL Super Over with two balls to spare.
The outcome mattered. The precedent mattered more. From that evening in Cape Town, every IPL player, every franchise, every fan knew that 40 overs of cricket could be rendered meaningless by six balls. The format had its mythology. The Super Over was born.
IPL 2020 – The Season That Gave Us Four Super Overs in One Tournament
If any single IPL season deserves to be remembered as the Super Over season, it is IPL 2020. Played entirely in the UAE across a compressed schedule with bio-bubbles, no home fans, and flat pitches that produced extraordinary batting conditions, the 2020 edition delivered four Super Overs – the most in any single edition, a record that has never been matched.
The four Super Overs came in the space of 13 days, across three cities:
DC vs KXIP (Dubai, October 3): Scores tied at 157. Punjab’s batters managed just 2/2 in the Super Over against Marcus Stoinis – one of the great defensive Super Over performances – before DC knocked off the target comfortably.
RCB vs MI (Dubai, October 12): The highest tied score in IPL history – 201 each. Both sides had produced extraordinary batting, with AB de Villiers and Kohli then combining to chase down MI’s Super Over total with ease. The tied score of 201 remains the most remarkable entry in the IPL tied matches list.
SRH vs KKR (Abu Dhabi, October 18 – afternoon): Tied at 163. Lockie Ferguson bowled a devastating Super Over for KKR – two wickets, three runs conceded – before KKR chased it without loss.
MI vs PBKS (Dubai, October 18 – evening): The one that stands apart from everything else.
The Double Super Over That Cricket Had Never Seen Before
On the night of October 18, 2020, Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab delivered something cricket had never seen in any professional T20 league anywhere on earth: a double Super Over – two successive one-over shootouts, played back to back after the main match and the first Super Over had both ended in identical scores.
The main match: tied at 176. Extraordinary batting from both sides across 40 overs.
The first Super Over: Jasprit Bumrah – arguably the greatest death bowler in T20 history – conceded just 5 runs while taking two wickets. Punjab needed 5 off 6 balls and matched it. Five all. The first Super Over was also a tie.
The second Super Over: the rule that allows repeated Super Overs until a winner is found has been activated for the first time in IPL history. MI batted again and posted 11/1. Chris Gayle walked out for Punjab needing 12 to win, hit a six off the first ball, and watched Mayank Agarwal finish the job with boundaries off the next two deliveries. Punjab won off the fourth ball.
Three complete innings of high-stakes T20 cricket – 63 overs in total – to separate two teams that had been inseparable all evening. The record stands to this day: the only double Super Over in IPL history.
The 2026 Super Over – Narine Rewriting History at Ekana Stadium
Every Super Over in the IPL super over 2026 KKR LSG, Sunil Narine conversation begins with the same impossible question: how did a number-ten batter end up determining the outcome of an IPL match in the final over?
The setup was this: KKR, reduced to 93/7 by Mohsin Khan’s five-wicket demolition, had been revived by an extraordinary 83 not out off 51 balls from Rinku Singh – one of the most important innings of his career. The total: 155/7. Chasing 156, LSG looked comfortable. They were scoring smoothly, the required rate was manageable, and the match appeared settled.
Then it was not. Seven needed off the final over from Kartik Tyagi. A no-ball free hit. Somehow, LSG still could not get those runs. And when Shami connected with the last ball of the innings – an agricultural swing that cleared long-off by several metres – Ekana Stadium turned briefly insane and the scoreboard read 155 apiece.
Sunil Narine took the ball for the Super Over. LSG sent in their two most dangerous batters: Nicholas Pooran and Aiden Markram. Narine delivered the first ball – flighted, dipping, right on off-stump. Pooran, committed to attack, hit it straight to mid-on. Pooran 0. Wicket 1. A single from the next ball – then Markram, typically assured at the crease, was beaten by flight and sharp turn off the pitch, stumped with no hesitation. Markram 0. Wicket 2.
LSG: 1/2 off three balls. The lowest Super Over total in IPL history.
Rinku Singh – who had already played the innings of the match in the first 20 overs – walked to the crease, took guard, and struck the first ball through the off side for a boundary. Match over in one delivery.
KKR moved off the bottom of the IPL 2026 standings. LSG suffered their fifth successive defeat. Irfan Pathan, watching from the commentary box, said it simply: “Narine delivered when it mattered most.”
How Narine Set Up the Win Before He Ever Bowled the Super Over
The Super Over was Narine’s masterpiece. But the canvas had been prepared across the previous 20 overs. Narine’s main-innings figures of 4-0-23-1 were economical, probing, and deliberately designed around intelligence rather than aggression. He had watched Pooran’s trigger movement throughout the evening – the way the left-hander set up slightly outside off, predetermining a slog-sweep against any delivery that drifted. He had noted Markram’s habit of taking a trigger step back against spin, leaving himself vulnerable to the fuller delivery that spins back into the right-hander sharply off a good-length line.
When the Super Over came, Narine did not improvise. He executed two deliveries he had already decided upon. Seventeen seasons in the IPL builds that kind of certainty – a player who has been in this situation before, understands what each batter is likely to do, and has the technical repertoire to exploit it in six balls under maximum pressure. The Super Over was not Narine being brilliant under fire. It was Narine delivering what preparation makes possible.
Super Over Records That Tell the Full Story of IPL History
The statistical landscape of the IPL super over history tells its own story about the format’s drama, unpredictability, and enduring quality:
- Total Super Overs in IPL history: 16 (through May 2026, across 18 seasons)
- Most Super Overs in a single season: 4 – IPL 2020 (UAE)
- Seasons with zero Super Overs: 8 – including three consecutive drought seasons between 2022 and 2024
- Highest tied score leading to a Super Over: 201 – RCB vs MI, Dubai, October 2020
- Lowest tied score leading to a Super Over: 130 – SRH vs RCB, Hyderabad, April 2013
- Lowest Super Over score conceded: 1 run – LSG vs KKR, Lucknow, April 26, 2026 (new record)
- Only double Super Over in IPL history: MI vs PBKS, Dubai, October 18, 2020
- Win/loss split between batting-first and batting-second teams: exactly 8-8 across 16 Super Overs
- Most expensive Super Over boundary count (old rules): KKR vs RR, Abu Dhabi, 2014 – decided by boundary count after both teams matched in the Super Over, under rules since changed
- Longest gap between Super Overs: three successive seasons – IPL 2022, 2023, and 2024 – before the format returned in 2025
Which Teams Win Super Overs the Most and Why
The IPL tied matches list across all 16 Super Overs reveals a clear franchise hierarchy when it comes to handling the format’s pressure.
Delhi Capitals (formerly Delhi Daredevils) are the outstanding performers – 4 wins from 5 Super Over appearances, a record no other franchise approaches. The thread connecting their successful Super Overs is consistent: elite bowling in the one-over shootout (Kagiso Rabada in 2019, Mitchell Starc in 2025) combined with composed, target-oriented batting that never panics regardless of the score required. DC has never lost a Super Over at home.
Kolkata Knight Riders have made four Super Over appearances in total (2009, 2014, 2020, 2026), winning two. The two losses were at opposite ends of the spectrum – the odd 2014 boundary-count defeat and the 2020 morning match against SRH where they actually won. KKR’s 2026 win, powered by Narine’s clinical bowling and Rinku’s finishing, is the most technically impressive of their four appearances.
Rajasthan Royals have a 2-1 record across three Super Overs (2009, 2014, 2015) – won the first ever, lost the 2014 boundary-count match, and won the 2015 game against KXIP. Their 2009 win remains the founding moment of the Super Over in IPL history, and the blueprint for everything that followed.
Conclusion: The Format That Keeps Rewriting Itself
Seventeen years. Sixteen Super Overs. Not a single one that resembled the one before it.
From the improvised, reference-free urgency of Cape Town 2009 – two teams figuring out what a Super Over even meant in real time – to the premeditated, analytical precision of Narine in Lucknow 2026, the IPL super over list is a document of cricket at its most essential. It strips the sport to its bones: one batter, one bowler, six balls, everything on the line.
The 2014 boundary-count controversy changed the rules. The 2020 double Super Over pushed those rules to their limit. The 2026 record of 1 run in a Super Over proved that no benchmark is permanent. Each Super Over in IPL history has added a new definition to what the format can produce – and none of them has been less than extraordinary.
The record that every team fears most in 2026 is not the highest individual score, not the most successful franchise, not even the most wickets. It is the next six-ball sequence that has not happened yet – the next Super Over that will once again make the previous 40 overs feel like the opening credits of the real film. The Super Over is T20 cricket’s greatest invention. IPL 2026 has only confirmed it.
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