Gold Coast's Premier League: Australian 3rd Division Club Cricketer Makes History by scalping 6 wickets in an Over

A third division club cricketer from Australia scalped six wickets in six balls to help his side win a local match. Gareth Morgan, captain of Mudgeeraba Nerang & Districts Cricket Club, claimed a sextuple-wicket maiden in a dramatic four-run win over Surfers Paradise CC in a 40-over match in the Gold Coast's Premier League Division 3 competition here on Saturday. Surfers Paradise were chasing 178 and were 174 for 4. They needed just 4 runs in the last over to win the game. But Morgan turned the match on its head as he got a wicket from each of his six deliveries to bowl out Surfers Paradise for 174. Five batsmen were out for golden ducks.

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The first four batters were all caught, while the final two were bowled. Morgan ended with a brilliant figures of 7/16 off seven overs. He had earlier taken the wicket of Surfers Paradise opener Jake Garland before the magical over. Morgan had also top-scored for Mudgeeraba with a rapid 39.

The most wickets taken in an over of professional cricket is five, claimed by New Zealand's Neil Wagner for Otago against Wellington in 2011. Bangladesh's Al-Amin Hossain for the UCB-BCB XI against Abhani Limited in 2013 and India's Abhimanyu Mithun for Karnataka against Haryana in 2019 also achieved the same feat.