Brazil’s Laura Cardoso takes file nine-wicket haul in 189 win towards Lesotho to say finest bowling figures in a T20I.
Printed On 9 Apr 2026
Brazil are the unlikely candidates to have claimed two cricket data as one among their bowlers took a file 9 wickets – together with 5 in a row – of their 189-run T20 Girls’s Worldwide victory towards Lesotho in Botswana.
Having gained the toss on Thursday, on the BCA Kalahari Girls’s T20 Worldwide Event, Brazil posted a frightening 202-8 with wicketkeeper Monnike Machado hitting 69 off 41.
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The enjoyable, for the Brazilians, was solely simply starting, although, as Laura Cardoso claimed a hat-trick with the final three deliveries of her first over – the second of the Lesotho innings – to set in movement the unimaginable feat that finally noticed the Africans bowled out for 13.
The 21-year-old then continued her wicket-taking achievement with a Girls’s T20 Worldwide first of 5 dismissals in a row as she struck with the primary two balls of her second over. This was all a part of claiming the primary 9 Lesotho wickets to fall, however being denied the prospect to take all 10 after a change of bowling following her third over. Her remaining wicket was Ret’sepile Limema, who fell to the fifth ball of the fifth over, with Cardoso changed for the next over at that finish. Her 9 wickets, nonetheless, is the very best return in both males’s or ladies’s T20 internationals.
The suitable-arm seamer did, certainly, come shut to a different hat-trick, when she claimed wickets with the final two balls of her second over, which itself totalled 4 victims.
Cardoso replaces Indonesia’s Rohmalia Rohmalia on the prime of the Girls’s T20 finest bowling rankings, as she completed with figures of 3-2-4-9.
Rohmalia had claimed seven wickets in 2024 in a match towards Mongolia in Bali. Solely three different ladies have claimed seven in a T20 worldwide.
The earlier file for the variety of wickets in consecutive deliveries was 4, and was collectively held with essentially the most outstanding event being when Shakera Selman pulled off the feat for the West Indies towards Pakistan in 2018.
Though an enormous profitable margin, Brazil’s total win doesn’t evaluate with Argentina’s file after they beat Chile by 364 runs in 2023. The Argentinians had struck 427-1 to arrange their victory.
Lesotho’s half within the file extends to no additional than Cardoso’s haul, with the file lowest whole belonging to Mali, who had been bowled out for six in 2019 by Rwanda.
Brazil, who lead the six-team match with 5 straight wins, play Mozambique on Friday.
