 IPL match last weekend between the Kings and the Royals came down to the last over. What's an over, you ask? Well, it's a collection of six balls, and balls are pitches. So you get 20 overs, so 20 sets of six pitches in a pitcher. They rotate the pitcher. It's kind of like an at bat from the baseball perspective where this bowler pitcher is gonna come in, he gets to throw six pitches, balls, and then the next one comes in. And then the next one, and they can rotate as they see fit depending on who's batting. Lefty, righty, are they better versus spin? Are they better versus speed? It's kind of like an at bat in a baseball sense from the pitcher's point of view or the pitcher's side of things. So there's six balls left. They need eight runs to win. Our dude, Hetmeier's up. He's from Guyana. He's already scored 24 runs off of 12 pitches so he's averaging to a pitch. So he should be able to get this. His teammate, his partner, has only seen one ball and he didn't get a run off that. Let's see, the other team got 189 runs when they hit. So now they need 190 and they're at 182. They've only gotten out four times. Doesn't really matter at this point. Here we go. So it's a strategy game. There's a lot of shifting because you shift your defense and then you bowl the guy based on how you're shifting the defense. So right now they don't want to give up the automatic four which he gets an automatic four runs if he hits the boundary. So they're gonna move all their players and in the front of him, out to the outfield. You can see that he's, that's the captain and now he's gonna run out to the outfield. So they got four in the outfield. They got three over here. We would call that oppo, just kind of like slice it down the third base or foul. And then they got one behind him to guard that and you can see him go, okay. Guess I'll just hit it that way because I get it by that one guy. I get automatic four runs. So here's how they bowl them behind the leg. Unfortunately, it's too far behind the leg and the ref says that's wide. So that's kind of what we would call a ball an unhittable pitch. And in this, it does not count towards the over. So he's still gonna have to throw six balls but now he'll need seven runs. So if you throw it wide, basically like unhittable it's an automatic run for the batting team and you have to redo the pitch. And you can see he was trying to hit it that way. They were trying to bait him because that's the way they didn't want him to hit it. And he wanted to hit it, so it's wide. So now the over still hasn't really started. They still have to throw six more balls and he needs seven runs to win the game. Here's another replay, bounces, spins leg side. He misses it, but it was behind him. So it's wide. Next ball, that is a slow spinning, kind of like a looping curve ball and he absolutely bombs it for the automatic six runs. I got home run. Now he only needs one run to win the game. So you can see they take their fielders and they bring them all in because if he hits it in the air they'd have to catch it, be perfect to get him out. Otherwise, he wins the game basically. If he hits it on the ground, they need to stop it so they can't run. So they bring the infield in, he takes note of that and you can see him kind of looking around and you go, oh, only one guy over there still? Okay, all right, yeah. This dude, Hepmeier, has the, he's the youngest batsman to score 100 runs, which is called a century. So now he's gonna try and hit it past that guy, just dink and right to him. But you can see the strategy, he gets it right past that guy, it's a run. So he's laughing, he's like, all right, you got me that time, okay. Guess I'll just have to power it through the guys on the other side of the field. Bam, and right at a guy. So again, they hold him, they don't run. Now it's like, oh, shit, oh, shit. Three balls left, one run. Like can they do that three more times? Boller looking intense, smoldering look, staring at him and he's gonna shift his feet up and attack that before it bounces. It goes the full length and he kind of, that'd be like just like a bloop over second base, just like dumps it in there and they win. And that's it. And now everyone's happy. People like Pink, it's Mother's Day weekend, he's laughing because it got scary. He's a fun guy. He's from Guyana, which is not part of the Caribbean, but they consider themselves part of the Caribbean. Here's the last three balls thrown. And you can see the first two, he definitely slowed down the pace and then the last one was the full length. So I don't know if that was on purpose or just a mishit, but watch the batsman's feet. The two on the left, the first two he stays, his back foot stays pretty planted, right? And he's waiting for the bounce to get to him. On this last one, look how much he, all the way on the right, look how much he shifts up to attack this ball. So that's what I like, it's like game of adjustments, game of strategy, and then there's a lot of close finishes.