WATCH: 6 Wickets in 6 Balls! Team sets bizarre record in Nepal’s Club Cricket

Nepal’s club cricket scene on Monday (April 11) witnessed a historic first in T20 history, as a team bagged six wickets off six balls inside an over. 

The record set of dismissals was achieved by the Malaysia Club XI in their match against the Push Sports Delhi in a Group A encounter of the Nepal Pro Club Championship. 

In the bizarrest of sequences, Malaysia Club XI bowler Virandeep Singh took five wickets in the 20th over of the first-innings with the addition of a team run-out to make his the strangest set of six balls delivered in T20 cricket ever. 

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Virandeep ran through the Push Sports Delhi’s middle and lower order as they went from a reasonably good 130/3 at the start of the 19th over to be 132 all out by the end of the 20th. The passionate cricket land of Nepal may have seen a team record that could well never be matched. 

Historic first in Nepal, a team records six wickets off six balls 

The nearest possible thing ever seen in organised T20 cricket was on display in the 2010 edition of the T20 World Cup in the Caribbean. Left-arm quick Mohammad Amir bowled an over where Pakistan recorded five scalps during a group stage encounter against Australia. 

Bowling the 20th over of Australia’s first-innings in St Lucia, Amir got the wickets of Brad Haddin, Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Tair on the first, second and the sixth ball of the over, while on third and fourth Pakistan inflicted the run-outs of Steve Smith and Dirk Nannes. Without taking a hat-trick, Amir was involved in a five-wicket over, the only such instance in T20Is at the highest level. 

The record achieved by Virandeep and Malaysia Club XI may have not been at the top-level game. But is equally eye-catching and memorable, as he took individual wickets on the first and the last four balls of his over, while Malaysia Club XI’s fielding unit successfully made a run-out opportunity count on the second ball. 

Virandeep also scalped a rare double hat-trick in the back half of his over, taking four wickets off four successive deliveries. When the bowler started off with a wide, nobody expected him to end with a record-breaking over. But now he and his team are part of the history books.