Cricket is all about making new records, and a fiery right-arm pacer from Indonesia has done just that. 28-year-old fast bowler Gede Priandana has smashed his way into cricket’s record books, becoming the first player in international T20 history to take five wickets in a single over.
The fast bowler produced the extraordinary spell in the first T20I against Cambodia in Bali. Chasing 168, Cambodia were 106 for five after 15 overs when Priandana was brought into the attack for the first time.
Priandana struck with his first three balls, removing Shah Abrar Hussain, Nirmaljit Singh, and Chanthoeun Rathanak to complete a rapid hat-trick.
After a dot ball, he dismissed Mongdara Sok and Pel Vennak with his fifth and sixth legal deliveries, finishing the over with an unprecedented five wickets.
Cambodia managed only a single run in that over, via a wide between the last two dismissals, and their innings folded 60 runs short of Indonesia’s total.
Earlier, Priandana had opened the batting and chipped in with six off 11 balls, while wicketkeeper-batter Dharma Kesuma stole the show with the bat, crafting a commanding unbeaten 110 off 68 deliveries, laced with eight fours and six sixes, to lift Indonesia to 167.
Priandana’s feat is the first of its kind in international T20 cricket with full ball-by-ball data available. Five wickets in an over had previously been achieved only at the domestic level: by Bangladesh seamer Al-Amin Hossain in the 2013–14 Victory Day T20 Cup, and by Karnataka pacer Abhimanyu Mithun in the 2019–20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy semi-final.
Until this match, the ceiling in T20 internationals had been four wickets in an over, a feat managed 14 times, including Lasith Malinga’s famous four-in-four against New Zealand in 2019. With his fiery world record over, Gede Priandana has just raised that bar to a level never seen before in the international game.