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\nBrent Randell, who has taken five wickets in five balls, known as a triple hat-trick.
\nPhoto: www.photosport.nz\n<\/p>\n
Central Stags pace bowler Brett Randell has achieved a cricketing rarity, taking five wickets in consecutive balls, which has been described a “triple hat-trick”.<\/p>\n
New Zealand Cricket statistician Francis Payne said Randell becomes the first player in first class cricket history to take five wickets in five balls – and the first to take six wickets in eight balls. His deed of seven wickets in 12 balls has been bettered just once.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old’s feat came in the Stags’ Plunket Shield match today against Northern Districts at McLean Park in Napier.<\/p>\n
He eventually finished with seven for 25, which is the second best in Central Districts history, betterd only by left arm spinner Bryan Yuile’s nine for 100 in 1966.<\/p>\n
“I’m pretty blown away,” Randell told the NZC website.<\/p>\n
“The high was pretty crazy, it was like a pinch-me moment.<\/p>\n
“I was trying to stay level-headed and keep putting the ball in the same area and then after the actual hat-trick, just the same things – trying to put the ball in the same area.<\/p>\n
“It gets drummed into us a lot that we don’t want to go searching for wickets, so I was trying to just keep bowling the same ball, and our “Plan A” that we’d talked about, and it came off.<\/p>\n
“I had no idea that it was the first time it [five wicket in five balls in first-class cricket] had happened in the world, it’s seriously cool. I mean, I don’t really have any words at the moment, to be honest. I’ll take it.”<\/p>\n
The Stags had scored 373 in their first innings and thanks to Randell dismissed Northern for just 82. Central enforced the follow-on and at stumps in their second innings Northern were five for 152, with Randell this time wicketless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brent Randell, who has taken five wickets in five balls, known as a triple hat-trick. Photo: www.photosport.nz Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-319020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}