Randall took the first wicket of his five in a row at the end of his second over before taking the rest from the start of his third over as Northern Districts slumped from 4-0 to 9-5.<\/p>\n
The right-arm medium pacer had figures of 5-2 at that point and took a wicket with the first ball of his fourth over to make it six wickets in eight balls.<\/p>\n
He later dismissed another batter and finished with figures of 7-25.<\/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,” said Randall.<\/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. <\/p>\n
“I mean, I don’t really have any words at the moment, to be honest. I’ll take it.”<\/p>\n
While it is the first time a player has achieved the feat in first-class cricket, it is not the first time a player has taken five wickets in five balls in all formats.<\/p>\n