The opposition side needed 5 runs in the last over when Gareth Morgan, the fielding captain, did the unthinkable by picking up six wickets in six balls.
An Australian third-grade cricketer has taken an incredible six wickets in six balls to lead his team to victory on the Gold Coast south of Brisbane.
Gareth Morgan was captain of the Mudgeeraba Nerang and Districts Cricket Club against Surfers Paradise in the Gold Coast’s Premier League division three when he took the six wickets in the final over of the match.
Surfers Paradise had 174 runs for the loss of four wickets and needed five runs to win at the Carrera Community Centre venue on Saturday.
Morgan said he considered giving one of his younger bowlers the ball, but then thought: “I’ll bowl — they can hit the winning runs off me, this younger fella doesn’t need that.’”
Off the first ball, he had opener Jake Garland caught at midwicket for 65 trying to win the game with one hit. A journalist for the Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper, Garland wrote about the afternoon under the headline: “I was first to go in six-ball epic.”