5 wickets in one over: Indonesia’s Gede Priyandana created T20I history, defeated Cambodia by 60 runs

crop Indonesia’s 28-year-old right-arm fast bowler Gied Priyandana has created history by taking five wickets in an over in a T20 International match (where fall-of-wickets data is available). He has become the first bowler in the world (including men’s or women’s cricket) to do so. He achieved this feat in the first T20 against Cambodia in Bali on Tuesday. Priyandana achieved this feat when the Cambodia team, chasing the target of 168 runs, was struggling at 106 runs for five wickets in 15 overs. While bowling her first over, Priyandana completed her hat-trick by taking consecutive wickets in the first three balls.

He sent Shah Abrar Hussain, Nirmaljit Singh and Chanthoun Rathanak to the pavilion in this order. After this he bowled a dot ball and then dismissed Mongdara Sok. He then ended the match by dismissing Pel Wennak after bowling a wide. Cambodia could score only one run in this over, which came from a wide between the last two wickets and their team lost the match by 60 runs.

Earlier, while opening the innings, Priyandana had also scored 6 runs in 11 balls along with Dharma Kesuma. Wicketkeeper batsman Kesuma led the batting for Indonesia and scored an unbeaten 110 off 68 balls, which included eight fours and six sixes. However, this feat has been done twice before in men’s T20 cricket. Al-Amin Hussain took five wickets in an over against Abahani Limited while playing for UCB-BCB XI in the 2013–14 Victory Day T20 Cup.

This happened for the second time when Karnataka’s Abhimanyu Mithun sent five Haryana batsmen to the pavilion in a single over in the semi-finals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2019-20. Although this is the first instance of taking five wickets in an over in international cricket, there are 14 previous instances of taking four wickets in an over. The most famous incident among these is when Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga took four wickets in four consecutive balls in a T20 against New Zealand in 2019.