Luckily for all of us, the explanation is rather simple…. A maiden in the context of cricket refers to any over that is bowled by the bowler that results in zero runs being added to the batting teams run total.
The over must consist of 6 legal deliveries. If an illegal delivery such as a wide or a no ball is bowled, a penalty run will be added to the batting teams total, meaning the over cannot be classed as a maiden.
However, an over can still be classed as a maiden if the only runs that the batting side score are as a result of byes or leg byes. Byes and leg byes do not count against the bowler; therefore, they cannot ruin a maiden over! Bowling maidens are a great way of putting pressure on the batting team. These are huge percentages in the context of a match. Add to it the fact that the batting teams are always looking to go after the bowlers, it is so very difficult to bowl a maiden in T20 cricket.
That is why the top bowler in T20I cricket, Jasprit Bumrah, has bowled just 7 maidens so far. Smart bowlers with great control over their line and length can achieve this with astute field placement and, of course, a bit of luck.
In T20s, a maiden is as big as a wicket if not more. A super over decides the fate of the game, in the ODI knockout matches, and all the T20 matches across the world when the game ends with the scores leveled after the completion of both the innings.
Each team gets two wickets and one over to make an impact. Tied at after completing each of their innings, Trinidad and Tobago went batting first in the Super over and managed 11 losing one wicket.
The Warriors needed 12 to win in the super over. A wicket maiden Super Over. If it is hard to believe, have a look at it yourself in the video above. The record for most consecutive maidens in cricket goes to Bapu Nadkarni , a left-arm orthodox spinner from India who bowled 21 consecutive maidens against England in in the first Test of the series. Overall, he bowled Back in , Hugh Tayfield had bowled deliveries without conceding a single run. Although it was in a match where an over consisted of 8 deliveries.
Tests are a game of patience and generally, the conditions also get tougher as the game progress towards day 4 or 5. Due to the unlimited overs available for batting, batsmen tend to play out tough spells and score later once the going gets easy again. The Sri Lankan legend Muttiah Muralitharan is at the top of this list with maidens in innings in the Test career that lasted for 18 years.
Table showing the most maiden overs bowled in a Test Match Career. Each ball has more value in ODIs than in Tests. Muralitharan features in this list as well. Dot balls worth their weight in gold in T20 cricket. If it is a bit difficult to bowl maidens in ODIs, it is extremely unlikely to bowl one in T20 cricket. The bowlers who bowl maiden in T20 Cricket often open the path for the next bowlers to take wickets because of the pressure created by the maiden over.
Indian pacer Jaspreet Bumrah, who bowls at the start of the innings and at death, tops the list with 7 maidens in 49 T20I innings. If we consider all the three formats together, Muralitharan comes at the top with as many as maidens in innings in 19 years of playing career across formats followed by legendary leg spinner Share Warne with maidens in innings.
There have been certain matches especially in Test cricket, where the bowlers, such as Bapu Nadkarni discussed above, have bowled many maiden overs in a single innings. More often, when a batsman fails to score a run in consecutive balls, the pressure starts building up and as a result, the batsman gives away his wicket.
Such a tactic has been used by many bowlers like Glenn McGrath to get a wicket in critical situations. Full credit goes to the bowler for a wicket maiden over as it helps the team significantly. In Tests , we see maiden overs more frequently as the batting side gets sufficient time due to unlimited overs.
Even a draw could favour the team if the side is already leading the Test series or if going for a win looks risky. So, blocking and just staying at the crease becomes more important than scoring runs.
In addition, many times, a team strategically decides to continuously bowl at negative line-and-length, forcing a batsman to do do something different.
All these factors lead to a maiden over. So, in ODIs and especially T20s, a maiden over means a bowler has bowled brilliantly. In T20s, a maiden over is nothing less than a wicket. Lethal pacer and death-over specialist in T20s Jasprit Bumrah has just bowled 7 maidens until now.
That shows how difficult the task is in T20 games. In ODIs knock-out matches and T20 matches, when a game is tied, a Super Over is bowled: a bowler from each side bowls an over, and the team with the most runs in that over wins the match.
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