PROV­I­DENCE – Liam Daw­son smashed a six off the penul­ti­mate ball of the match to guide the Hamp­shire Hawks to an ex­cit­ing vic­to­ry over the Rang­pur Rid­ers in the Exxon­Mo­bil Glob­al Su­per League’s (GSL) first-ever Su­per Over in Guyana on Wednes­day.

It was a thrilling fi­nale to the tour­na­ment’s sec­ond game af­ter both sides scored 132 runs from their 20 overs.

Hawks’ cap­tain Chris Wood opt­ed to bowl the cru­cial over, and de­spite be­ing hit for a six by Khushdil Shah, he on­ly con­ced­ed 12 runs from his six overs.

Need­ing 13 runs to win, the Hawks’ James Fuller ham­mered Zak Chap­pell’s first ball for six over the leg side, but the bowler struck back with a slow­er short ball that Fuller could on­ly hit straight up in the air for the bowler to take a sim­ple re­turn catch.

But with the pres­sure ramped up and the crowd and both dugouts watch­ing on ner­vous­ly, Hamp­shire stal­wart Daw­son stepped up to seal the win.

Ear­li­er, af­ter win­ning the toss and choos­ing to bat, the Hawks’ Shan Ma­sood starred with the bat, scor­ing 56 off 41 balls to see that a com­pet­i­tive to­tal of 132 was post­ed.

Ma­sood’s knock was the first half cen­tu­ry of the com­pe­ti­tion and earned him the Play­er-of-the-Match award.

He even­tu­al­ly de­part­ed the scene in the fi­nal over, one of five wick­ers to fall to Chap­pell.

Chap­pell had an im­pres­sive night, pick­ing up both Tom Prest and Joe Weath­er­ley in the fourth over of the match and then clean­ing up the in­nings in the 19th over with the re­moval of Dan­ny Brig­gs and Son­ny Bak­er in con­sec­u­tive de­liv­er­ies to fin­ish with the im­pres­sive fig­ures of 5-23.

CMC