Curtis Campher 5 Wickets in 5 Balls GettyImage Credit Source: Getty Images
It is not easy to take hat -trick in any format of cricket or at any level. It is a dream for any bowler to take a hat -trick in the match. Some bowlers also get success in this. Taking wickets in 3 consecutive balls is more difficult to take wickets in 4 consecutive balls. Still some bowlers have been successful in doing so. But 5 wickets in 5 consecutive balls- hardly anyone will be able to do it in the dream. An Ireland bowler has shown this, who made history by taking 5 consecutive hunters in a T20 match. These bowlers are Curtis Camphor, who became the first bowler to do so in cricket history.
In Ireland these days, the domestic T20 tournament Inter-Privinial T20 Trophy is being played. In this tournament, Senior all -rounder of Ireland cricket team, playing for Munter Reds, won the team with his amazing performance in a match. In this match played between Reds and North-West Warriors on Thursday 10 July, Camphur’s team scored 188 runs for 7 wickets while batting first. Kartis Camphur, captaining the team, scored the highest 44 runs in just 24 balls during this period. But his real wonder was yet to come from the ball.
History created with 5 consecutive wickets
The North-West started poorly and the team had lost 5 wickets for 11 overs, while the score was just 78 runs. The defeat was fixed, but no one would have thought that the match will end in the next few balls. It was made possible by Captain Camphor, whose medium pace bowling wreaked havoc. Camphor, who gave 8 runs in his first over, a six on the third ball of the second over, but only the wickets kept getting wickets. He took 2 wickets on the last two balls of this over.
Then when he returned in his next over, he had a chance to take a hat -trick in front of him and the Irish star did not lose it. He completed the hat -trick by taking the wicket of his international teammate Andy McBrin on the very first ball of the new over. But he was not satisfied with this much and took the wicket again on the next ball. In this way Camphor completed his double hat -trick in the match. Taking 4 wickets in 4 consecutive balls in cricket is called double hat -trick. Camphor did this amazing earlier also, but this time he died only after creating history. Camphor took 5 wickets in 5 consecutive balls by dismissing the last batsman as Josh Wilson.
Double hat -trick has taken earlier also
This is the first time in the history of professional cricket, when a bowler took 5 wickets in 5 consecutive balls. In this way, Camphur recorded a big record in world cricket forever. On the basis of his performance, North-West piled on for just 88 runs and lost the match by 100 runs. By the way, this is not the first time when Camphor has taken a double hat -trick. About 4 years ago, Camphor did this wonders in the 2021 T20 World Cup. At that time, he could not take 5 wickets in a row, but against the Netherlands, he had completed double hat -trick with 4 consecutive wickets.