{"id":526179,"date":"2026-03-08T06:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T06:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:11:09","slug":"cricket-kiwi-brett-randell-makes-history-with-five-wickets-in-five-balls-for-central-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526179\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket: Kiwi Brett Randell makes history with five wickets in five balls for Central Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Randell\u2019s 37 previous first-class matches, the 30-year-old had only claimed more than five wickets in an innings on two occasions.<\/p>\n

Central Districts started the day at McLean Park on 347\/8 before eventually being bowled out for 373.<\/p>\n

In reply, Northern Districts got off to a bad start when Randell dismissed Henry Cooper with the last ball of his second over.<\/p>\n

He returned for his next over to first claim the scalp of former Black Caps opener Jeet Raval before claiming his hat-trick when he had Joe Carter caught behind.<\/p>\n

Carter was shaking his head profusely, indicating he didn\u2019t hit the ball before eventually departing.<\/p>\n

Randell then got Robbie O\u2019Donnell caught out in the slips before Kristian Clarke became the fifth victim, clipping the ball, which bounced before hitting the stumps.<\/p>\n

Randall\u2019s next two balls didn\u2019t having much luck, but in his fourth over, he claimed the wickets of Ben Pomare and Scott Kuggeleijn.<\/p>\n

Northern Districts were eventually bowled out for 82 and were forced into the follow on, where they reached 162\/5 at stumps. <\/p>\n

Surprisingly, Randell couldn\u2019t add to his wicket tally, with Ray Toole leading the charge with four second innings scalps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Randell\u2019s 37 previous first-class matches, the 30-year-old had only claimed more than five wickets in an innings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,2358,261764,261762,505,22409,13646,740,261763,41261,580,1571,4717,8835,12766,9484,64993,261765,220275,82463,85,3209,1928,154111,3605],"class_list":["post-526179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-balls","tag-bowler","tag-brett","tag-central","tag-clash","tag-created","tag-cricket","tag-districts","tag-five","tag-for","tag-history","tag-in","tag-kiwi","tag-makes","tag-napier","tag-northern","tag-plunket","tag-randell","tag-shield","tag-sports","tag-taking","tag-their","tag-wickets","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}