SYDNEY: Over the weekend, an Australian club cricket player claimed six wickets in an amazing final over to secure victory in a one-day match. The player called the exceptional achievement “surreal”.
six wickets in six balls to win match: With six wickets remaining and Surfers Paradise needing five runs to win, Mudgeeraba skipper Gareth Morgan decided to bowl the final six balls alone as his team faced an almost certain defeat in the Gold Coast Premier League Division 3.
With opener Jake Garland out for 65 and the next five batters out for golden ducks, Morgan caused a stunning collapse.
Morgan told the Gold Coast Bulletin, “It’s funny, the umpire told me at the beginning of the over that I needed to take a hat-trick or something to win the game.” Morgan’s antics garnered widespread prominence.
“When it happened, all he did was glance at me.”
He described it as “extremely surreal” to national broadcaster ABC.
Further, He recalled thinking, “I don’t want to lose this game now,” after he scored a hat-trick.
After then, it simply went berserk. Further, I was astounded to see the stumps return on the final ball; I had never seen anything like that.
Batsmen bowled the last two wickets, while fielders caught all the first four.
However, According to ABC, three players in professional cricket have ever claimed the most wickets in an over: Abhimanyu Mithun of India (2019), Al-Amin Hossain of Bangladesh (2013), and Neil Wagner of New Zealand (2011).
