What happened yesterday during the match between New Zealand women and Sri Lanka women?

There are a lot of cricket matches going on around the world regularly, and we see some or other record getting broken in all of those matches. It is rarely seen that during a cricket match, no record is broken.

Well, yesterday, on July 1, 2023, in the match between New Zealand women and Sri Lanka women at the Galle International Stadium, a very funny and shocking incident took place. The New Zealand women’s team’s bowler, Eden Carson, accidentally bowled 11 overs in an ODI match.

11 overs for a bowler in a 50-over match? 🤔

New Zealand's Eden Carson did that due to an oversight in the second #SLvNZ ODI!

Since the last 55-overs-a-side match in ODIs in 1995, there have been five instances (across men's and women's games) where a bowler has bowled beyond… pic.twitter.com/capOHd8Zfv

— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) July 1, 2023

Since the ODI match is 50 overs long and every team needs to use a minimum of five bowlers in their innings, no bowler can exceed his or her quota of bowling 10 overs per innings in a One-day international match.

But this happened yesterday, when New Zealand women’s bowler Eden Carson bowled 11 overs in her innings due to negligence and a huge blunder in oversight by the on-field umpires as well as the third umpire. She ended the match with a score of 11-0-41-2.

Thankfully, her last over, which was the 11^th one, did not result in too much damage for either of the teams. Neither she conceded many runs in that over nor did she take any wickets, so it did not create much of a problem. But this was a very poor display by the match officials, as things like this can change the course of the game in just one ball.

Incidents like these have also happened in the past, as this was the fifth time (men’s and women’s matches together) this kind of incident took place since 1995, after the conclusion of 55-over ODI matches.

The other four times it has happened are listed below.

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