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Brazil are the unlikely candidates to have claimed two cricket records as one of their bowlers took a record nine wickets \u2013 including five in a row \u2013 in their 189-run T20 Women\u2019s International victory against Lesotho in Botswana.<\/p>\n
Having won the toss on Thursday, at the BCA Kalahari Women\u2019s T20 International Tournament, Brazil posted a daunting 202-8 with wicketkeeper Monnike Machado hitting 69 off 41.<\/p>\n
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The fun, for the Brazilians, was only just beginning, though, as Laura Cardoso claimed a hat-trick with the last three deliveries of her first over \u2013 the second of the Lesotho innings \u2013 to set in motion the incredible feat that eventually saw the Africans bowled out for 13.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old then continued her wicket-taking achievement with a Women\u2019s T20 International first of five dismissals in a row as she struck with the first two balls of her second over. This was all part of claiming the first nine Lesotho wickets to fall, but being denied the chance to take all 10 after a change of bowling following her third over. Her final wicket was Ret\u2019sepile Limema, who fell to the fifth ball of the fifth over, with Cardoso replaced for the following over at that end. Her nine wickets, nevertheless, is the best return in either men\u2019s or women\u2019s T20 internationals.<\/p>\n
The right-arm seamer did, indeed, come close to another hat-trick, when she claimed wickets with the last two balls of her second over, which itself totalled four victims.<\/p>\n
Cardoso, who has has taken 55 wickets in 48 T20 matches for Brazil,\u00a0replaces Indonesia\u2019s Rohmalia Rohmalia at the top of the Women\u2019s T20 best bowling rankings, as she finished with figures of 3-2-4-9.<\/p>\n
Rohmalia had claimed seven wickets in 2024 in a match against Mongolia in Bali. Only three other women have claimed seven in a T20 international.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s record, and the overall in the format, had been held by Bhutan\u2019s Sonam Yeshey after \u2060he took eight wickets for seven \u2060runs against Myanmar \u2060last year.<\/p>\n
The previous record for the number of wickets in consecutive deliveries was four, and was jointly held with the most prominent occasion in women\u2019s cricket being when Shakera Selman pulled off the feat for the West Indies against Pakistan in 2018. Afghanistan\u2019s Rashid Khan and Sri Lanka\u2019s Lasith Malinga are among the most notable bowlers from the men\u2019s game to have claimed four consecutively in the format.<\/p>\n
Although a huge winning margin, Brazil\u2019s overall win does not compare with Argentina\u2019s record after they beat Chile by 364 runs in 2023. The Argentinians had struck 427-1 to set up their victory.<\/p>\n
Lesotho\u2019s part in the record extends to no further than Cardoso\u2019s haul, with the record-lowest total belonging to Mali, who were bowled out for 6 in 2019 by Rwanda.<\/p>\n
Brazil, \u200cwho lead the six-team tournament with five straight wins, play \u200cMozambique \u200con Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Laura Cardoso takes record nine-wicket haul in 189-run win against Lesotho to claim best T20I bowling figures.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3711,9548,1721,8911,25503,50,217,101,56,54,55,21567],"class_list":{"0":"post-522280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-latin-america","12":"tag-lesotho","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sport","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom","19":"tag-zimbabwe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522280","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=522280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}