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Stats, guides and famous finishes from the last five overs, built from real ball-by-ball data.

• How to bowl the death oversA captain's guide to the last five overs of a T20 chase: who bowls when, which deliveries to trust, and where to put the field.
• The best death bowlers in IPL historyWho concedes the fewest runs in overs 16 to 20? Economy rates, wickets and dot-ball rates for every bowler with 100+ death overs, 2008 to 2026.
• The hardest batters to bowl at in the death oversStrike rates, sixes and balls per boundary for every batter with 400+ balls faced in overs 16 to 20 of IPL matches.
• How often do teams chase down runs off the last 30 balls?From 1,042 real chases still alive after 15 overs: the success rate for every target, the biggest last-five-over chases and the smallest totals defended.
• Wickets in hand: how much do they matter at the death?Chase success rates by wickets lost after 15 overs, from 1,042 real IPL chases.
• Death-over scoring by season, 2008 to 2026Runs per over, sixes per over and wickets per over in the last five overs of every IPL season since 2008.
• Who bowls the 20th over?The bowlers captains trust most with the final over of a IPL innings, and how they've done.
• Nine famous IPL finishes you can captain yourselfThe finals and last-over thrillers in 5overs Classics, from the 2008 final to the 2025 final. Play them from the start of the 16th over.
• How the 5overs win chance worksThe model behind 5overs: ball-by-ball data, simulation, calibration against real results, and what is modelled rather than measured.
• T20 field positions explainedEvery fielding position in 5overs, what it's for, and the fielding restrictions that apply in the last five overs.