{"id":42957,"date":"2026-03-08T09:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42957"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:04:38","slug":"kiwi-cricketer-makes-history-with-five-wickets-in-five-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42957","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi cricketer makes history with five wickets in five balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Central Stags fast bowler Brett Randell became the first player to take five wickets in five balls in first-class cricket on Sunday, producing a remarkable burst on the second day of the Plunket Shield match against Northern Districts in Napier.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old right-armer also became the first bowler to claim six wickets in eight deliveries and finished with figures of 7-25 from 11 overs. His spell skittled Northern Districts for 82 in reply to Central Districts\u2019 373.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Ramazan cricket fever: Women shine in night tournament<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am pretty blown away. The high was pretty crazy, it was like a pinch-me moment,&#8221; Randell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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 &#8211; trying to put the ball in the same area,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Stealing power in Ramazan for night cricket<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gets drummed into us a lot that we don&#8217;t want to go searching for wickets, so I was trying to just keep bowling the same ball, and our &#8216;Plan A&#8217; that we had talked about, and it came off,&#8221; the cricketer stated.<\/p>\n<p>Randell&#8217;s feat is just the eighth hat-trick for the Stags in 75 years of Plunket Shield cricket.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Stags fast bowler Brett Randell became the first player to take five wickets in five balls in first-class cricket on Sunday, producing a remarkable burst on the second day of the Plunket Shield match against Northern Districts in Napier. The 30-year-old right-armer also became the first bowler to claim six wickets in eight deliveries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}