Randall took the primary wicket of his 5 in a row on the finish of his second over earlier than taking the remaining from the beginning of his third over as Northern Districts slumped from 4-0 to 9-5.
The right-arm medium pacer had figures of 5-2 at that time and took a wicket with the primary ball of his fourth over to make it six wickets in eight balls.
He later dismissed one other batter and completed with figures of 7-25.
“It gets drummed into us a lot that we don’t want to go searching for wickets, so I was trying to just keep bowling the same ball, and our ‘Plan A’ that we’d talked about, and it came off,” mentioned Randall.
“I had no idea that it was the first time it [five wicket in five balls in first-class cricket] had happened in the world, it’s seriously cool.
“I imply, I do not actually have any phrases in the meanwhile, to be sincere. I’ll take it.”
While it is the first time a player has achieved the feat in first-class cricket, it is not the first time a player has taken five wickets in five balls in all formats.
Ireland worldwide Curtis Campher became the first male player to do so in an expert match in July 2025 in a home T20 sport.
Zimbabwe Women all-rounder Kelis Ndhlovu beforehand took 5 wickets in 5 balls in a home under-19 T20 in 2024.
