Five wickets in an over: South African bowler makes historical past with uncommon feat – Watch

Chad Laycock made historical past on Tuesday by turning into the primary bowler to take 5 wickets in an over in South African T20 cricket. The 19-year-old achieved the feat whereas taking part in for KZN Inland towards Titans within the CSA Pro20 Cup in Pietermaritzburg.Laycock completed with career-best figures of 6/26, together with a file of 4 wickets in 4 consecutive deliveries in South African T20 cricket. Among Full Member groups in T20 internationals, Lasith Malinga, Rashid Khan, Curtis Campher and Jason Holder have beforehand achieved the four-wicket sequence.Laycock additionally set a brand new file for the perfect bowling figures in CSA Pro20 Cup historical past, going previous Beuran Hendricks’ 6/29 from 2014.The historic over got here within the nineteenth over of the Titans innings. Laycock first dismissed Leus du Plooy earlier than taking the wickets of Dayyaan Galiem, Aphiwe Mnyanda, Janco Smit and Esosa Aihevba off the following 4 deliveries. The 5 wickets ended Titans’ innings at 204, with the group having been 193/4 earlier than the over.Laycock had earlier given KZN Inland their first breakthrough by dismissing Lhuan-dre Pretorius, who scored 81 off 36 balls, within the ninth over. Pretorius and his opening associate had put collectively 112 runs.However, Laycock’s efficiency was not sufficient to safe a win for KZN Inland. Chasing 205, they completed on 183/6, shedding the match by 21 runs. Laycock remained unbeaten on 31. The victory prolonged table-toppers Titans’ unbeaten run within the competitors to 6 matches.Laycock turned the fourth bowler identified to have taken 5 wickets in an over in males’s T20 cricket, as per Cricinfo. Bangladesh’s Al-Amin Hossain, India’s Abhimanyu Mithun and Indonesia’s Gede Priandana had achieved the feat earlier than him.Priandana stays the one bowler, male or feminine, to take 5 wickets in an over in a T20 global. He achieved the feat towards Cambodia in December 2025.Al-Amin took 5 wickets in an over whereas taking part in for UCB-BCB XI towards Abahani Limited within the 2013-14 Victory Day T20 Cup. Mithun achieved the feat within the 2019-20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy semifinal, taking part in for Karnataka towards Haryana in India’s home T20 competitors.