{"id":657079,"date":"2026-06-25T06:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657079\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:59:09","slug":"nine-year-old-bowler-takes-six-wickets-in-six-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657079\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine-year-old bowler takes six wickets in six balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rohan&#8217;s dad, Narain, 54, said it was &#8220;truly amazing&#8221; to watch his son complete the feat, especially on Father&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To get one wicket is a great achievement for someone so young, but wicket after wicket I was so proud,&#8221; Narain said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Just him playing at the local cricket team was a great achievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I realised how rare of an achievement it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vishal Gupta, one of the team&#8217;s coaches and umpire at the match, said he &#8220;had the best seat in the house&#8221; to watch Rohan&#8217;s achievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I took my umpire hat off and threw him up in the air with his team,&#8221; said Gupta. &#8220;Everyone was clapping about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I will ever see it again, it was amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lucas Green, the under-nines&#8217; head coach, added that everyone watching was pleased for Rohan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When the wickets fell for the sixth ball everyone ran on to the pitch,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The other team were so happy for him&#8230; and him and his team-mates enjoyed the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Cambridgeshire? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rohan&#8217;s dad, Narain, 54, said it was &#8220;truly amazing&#8221; to watch his son complete the feat, especially on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657079","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\/657079","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=657079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}