India Women vs South Africa Women, Lucknow, 21 March
A score of 158/4 should have won India the match, especially from when South Africa needed 17 in eight balls. Even after Laura Wolvaardt pulled and swept Harleen Deol for consecutive fours, Arundhati Reddy brought it down to to six from two. Then she bowled a full toss. Wolvaardt ran two, then two more off the free hit to decide the match.
New Zealand Women vs Australia Women, Napier, 30 March
Despite Francis Mackay's 2-20 and 46, New Zealand were left to chase 19 in nine balls. Hannah Rowe then went after Megan Schutt, taking 10 in three balls, leaving the rest to Maddy Green. Nicola Carey brought the equation to three off the last ball, which took Green's bottom edge and ran for four.
West Indies Men vs South Africa Men, St George's, 29 June
West Indies needed only 22 in 16 balls that day, but Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, and Kagiso Rabada were relentlessly accurate with their yorkers and low full tosses. Nortje also pinned Nicholas Pooran leg-before. Fabian Allen found the boundary off Rabada in the last over, but there was no respite. South Africa won by only one run, but that included a redundant last-ball six.
England Women vs New Zealand Women, Taunton, 9 September
England needed only eight from eight balls, but Heather Knight chose that moment to hit Sophie Devine to mid off, while Amy Satterthwaite got Maia Bouchier with her first ball to turn the match on its head. Satterthwaite brought the target to six from three, but Sophia Dunkley saw England home with a ball to spare.
Italy Men vs Germany Men, Almeria, 21 October
After being bowled out for 117, Italy hit back to reduce Germany to 57/6. A win seemed improbable, but Dieter Klein and Sahir Naqqash refused to give up. Both men played their shots, and an eventful 18th over yielded 18 runs. In the end, Germany fell one short.
Australia Men vs South Africa Men, Abu Dhabi, 23 October
Australia needed only 119, but the South Africans pushed them to 101/5 after 18 overs. Then Nortje missed a difficult caught-and-bowled chance of Marcus Stoinis. Thus reprieved, Stoinis hit a four off Nortje, and two more in the last over, from Dwaine Pretorius, to clinch the thriller.
Brazil Women vs Canada Women, Naucalpan, 25 October
Arguably the best T20I finish of the year, if not of all time. After restricting Brazil 48/7, albeit in 17 overs, Canada seemed set to win with one over left. After all, they needed only three runs to win with five wickets in hand.
Enter Laura Boss Cardoso. She started with a dot before Krima Kapadia was run out. Cardoso then bowled Hala Azmat and Hiba Shamshad, and had Sana Zafar caught. Canada still needed three off the last ball. Mukhwinder Gill, back on strike, got a run, but was run out while attempting a second. Brazil pulled off an incredible heist.
Pakistan Men vs Afghanistan Men, Dubai, 29 October
Asif Ali made his intentions clear when he denied a single off the last ball of the 18th over. Pakistan needed 24, and Afghanistan trusted Karim Janat with the 19th over. Karim attempted six yorkers. He got two right, the second and fourth balls, and did not concede a run from either. Asif hit the other four, all overpitched, for sixes.
South Africa Men vs West Indies Men, Sharjah, 30 October
Following Dushmantha Chameera's hat-trick, South Africa needed 22 in nine balls, but Rabada lofted Chameera for six to keep them in the game. Lahiru Kumara bowled the last over, and David Miller decided the match with two consecutive shots out of the ground. Rabada's four ended the match with one ball to spare.
Canada Men vs USA Men, Coolidge, 10 November
USA needed nine off the last three balls when the drama began. Karima Gore hit Jatinderpal Matharu for six, but Matharu had his revenge, trapping Gore leg-before next ball. Ali Khan missed the next ball, but so did wicketkeeper Hamza Tariq, and they ran two byes to tie the match. USA then scored 22 in the Super Over to win by eight runs.