A third division club cricketer from Australia has pulled off a uncommon feat of taking six wickets in six balls to assist his facet win an area match right here.
Gareth Morgan, captain of Mudgeeraba Nerang & Districts Cricket Club, claimed a sextuple-wicket maiden in a dramatic four-run win over Surfers Paradise CC in the Gold Coast’s Premier League Division 3 competitors right here on Saturday.
Surfers Paradise had been chasing 178 and had been 174 for 4, heading into the final over of the 40-over match.
But Morgan turned the match on its head as he acquired a wicket from every off his six deliveries to bowl out Surfers Paradise for 174. Five batsmen had been out for golden geese.
The first 4 dismissals had been all caught, whereas the ultimate two had been bowled, in response to abc.web.au Morgan, an area council employee, ended with figures of seven/16 off seven overs. He had earlier taken the wicket of Surfers Paradise opener Jake Garland earlier than his ‘six-in-six’ feat.
Morgan had additionally top-scored for Mudgeeraba with a speedy 39.
According to ABC, essentially the most wickets taken in an over {of professional} cricket is 5, claimed by New Zealand’s Neil Wagner for Otago towards Wellington in 2011, Bangladeshi Al-Amin Hossain for the UCB-BCB XI towards Abhani Limited in 2013 and India’s Abhimanyu Mithun for Karnataka towards Haryana in 2019.
