{"id":465170,"date":"2026-03-09T02:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/465170\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T02:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:23:10","slug":"brett-randell-makes-history-with-five-wickets-in-five-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/465170\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Randell makes history with five wickets in five balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">New Zealand seam bowler Brett Randell has become the first player to take five wickets in five balls in first-class cricket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Randell, who plays for Central Districts in New Zealand\u2019s first-class competition, recorded the history making feat on day two of the Plunket Shield match against Northern Districts. He took a wicket with the last ball of the innings\u2019 third over and then wickets with the first four balls of its fifth over as Northern Districts slumped from 4 without loss to 9 for five in Napier on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">The 30-year-old right arm seam bowler then also became the first player to take six wickets in eight balls in first-class cricket and finished the day with seven for 25 from 11 overs as Northern Districts were dismissed for just 82 and asked to follow-on after Central Districts had scored 373 in their first innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"styles__Paragraph-sc-12n1gx9-4 cHqSOe\">Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using <a href=\"#\" class=\"styles__LinkPrivacyManager-sc-12n1gx9-7 gbNmVF\">privacy manager.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enable cookiesAllow cookies once<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">While Randell is the first bowler in first-class cricket to take five in five, it has been achieved in T20 cricket by Ireland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/cricket\/article\/curtis-campher-i-love-challenges-and-play-with-my-heart-on-my-sleeve-bbvbqncvk\" class=\"link__RespLink-sc-1ocvixa-0 csWvlP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Curtis Campher<\/a> playing for Munster Reds against North West Warriors in Ireland\u2019s inter-provincial T20 trophy and Zimbabwe women\u2019s all-rounder Kelis Ndhlovu also achieved the same feat for Zimbabwe Under 19s against Eagles Women in their domestic T20 tournament in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">\u201cI\u2019m pretty blown away,\u201d Randell said. \u201cI had no idea that it was the first time that had happened in the world \u2014 it\u2019s seriously cool. It was like a pinch-me moment. 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 \u2013 trying to put the ball in the same area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"last-paragraph\" class=\"responsive__Paragraph-sc-1pktst5-0 gaEeqC\">Randell has never played international cricket but has played 37 first-class matches, 54 one-day matches and 45 T20s for his district and has 103 first-class wickets at an average of 25.84.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand seam bowler Brett Randell has become the first player to take five wickets in five balls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-465170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}