The First Super Over Of The UPT20 League 2025 Season – 3 Finished in Just 5 Balls, Gorakhpur Lions registered its 5th win

Lucknow : Super Over in UP T20 League 2025 – The match between Gaur Gorakhpur and Kanpur Superstars played on 31 August in the UP T20 League was tied. After this match was tied, the first super over of the season was seen. Leader-actor Ravi Kishan’s team Gorakhpur Lions has registered its 5th win in UP T20 League 2025.

In the match played on 31 August, it registered this victory against the league’s worst team Kanpur Superstars. This match was decided by a 5-ball super over. Now you will say that in the super over also 12 balls are bowled by both the teams, then how did this super over happen of 5 balls? So before we tell you about that, just know the status of the match played between Gaur Gorakhpur Lions and Kanpur Superstars. This match played between Gaur Gorakhpur Lions and Kanpur Superstars was tied. Due to rain, the match between the two teams was of 15-15 overs. Gaur Gorakhpur Lions batted first and scored 141 runs for 7 wickets in 15 overs. In reply, Kanpur Superstars also scored 141 runs for 5 wickets in 15 overs. Now when both the teams had equal scores, a super over was played to decide the result. First super over of UP T20 League 2025, that too of 5 balls……………

In the super over, Kanpur Superstars batted first. Its captain Sameer Rizvi had scored a quick 75 runs in the match. In such a situation, he was expected to score in the super over as well. But before that could happen, he was pulled down by Abdul Rehman, the bowler of Gaur Gorakhpur Lions who was bowling the super over. He got Sameer Rizvi out LBW on the very first ball of the super over. Abhishek Pandey, who came after Rizvi, took a single on the second ball and gave the strike to Adarsh Singh. But in the super over, on the third ball of Abdul Rehman, he too got out without opening his account like Sameer Rizvi. In this way, the super over innings of Kanpur Superstars ended in just 3 balls.

Now the target in front of Gaur Gorakhpur Lions was not only clear but also very easy. Akshadeep Nath and Prince Yadav came to open for them and together they chased the target of 2 runs against Kanpur Superstars bowler Vineet Pawar in 2 balls of the super over. Now if we look at the total balls in the super over by both the teams, then it is only 5. The thrill of a super over with only 5 balls was not seen in the match played between Gorakhpur Lions and Kanpur Superstars, this was also the first super over of UP T20 League 2025.