The sport of cricket declares the winner of the match to the team who scored more runs in the match. Both teams have eleven players who are tasked with either scoring runs for their side or restricting the flow of runs of the opposition. The verdict of a cricket match is a win, loss, draw, or a tie. A draw is seen in test cricket where no clear winner can be declared after the scheduled time of play. A tie is when both teams score the same number of runs irrespective of the format.
When a match ends in a tie, both teams get equal points if the match is a part of a multi-team tournament. In the first decade of the 21st century, tiebreakers were proposed and executed to decide a clear winner from a tied match. A bowl out was arguably the first one that was introduced and it saw its use in the T20 format. However, it was later replaced by the super over. In the latter half of the second decade of the 21st century, a boundary count law was also inducted as a tiebreaker.
In limited overs cricket, a super over is like a one over shootout between two teams wherein the one who scored more runs wins the match. Today, if a super over ends in a tie, then another super over is played. This continues till a clear victor emerges. However, in 2019, it was proposed that if a super over ends in a tie, then the team with the higher boundary count must be declared the winner. Boundaries refer to the number of fours and sixes that a team has hit in their innings.
The 2019 World Cup final between New Zealand and England was decided by the boundary count law. However, the decision through the boundary count law received a lot of flak. It became a controversy so extreme, that the law was scraped off.
