This happened for the first time in T20I cricket, this player created history by taking 9 wickets in a match.

Laura Cardoso Creates History: Brazil women’s cricket team all-rounder Laura Cardoso has created history by taking 9 wickets in a T20 International match. She has become the first cricketer in the world to achieve such a feat. Before this, such a feat had not happened in any T20 match, whether men’s or women’s. Cardoso took 9 wickets for 4 runs in just 3 overs in the T20I match against Lesotho and gave his team a big victory of 189 runs.

Earlier, the record for best bowling in T20 International was in the name of Bhutan’s Sonam Yeshe, who took 8 wickets in 2025. Among women, Indonesia’s Rohmalia had the record of 7 wickets, which Cardoso comfortably overtook.

𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧 🚨

Brazil’s Laura Cardoso registered the best-ever bowling figures in T20I history with a 9️⃣-wicket haul!

Details 👇https://t.co/IYeBLTRWX2

— ICC (@ICC) April 9, 2026

Best figures in T20I cricket

• El Cardoso – 3-2-4-9 vs LES Women, 9 April 2026
• S Yeshe – 4-1-7-8 vs Myanmar, 26 December 2025
• R Rohamalia – 3.2-3-0-7 vs MNG Women’s Team, April 24, 2024
• F Overdijk – 4-2-3-7 vs France Women, 26 August 2021
• A Stokes – 3.4-0-3-7 vs Peru Women, 14 October 2022

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