Five wickets in an over: Indonesias Priandana creates history in T20 Internationals

Indonesia fast bowler Gede Priandana etched his name into the record books by becoming the first player to take five wickets in a single over in T20 International cricket. The 28-year-old right-arm quick achieved the historic feat on Tuesday during the first T20I against Cambodia in Bali. It is the first instance of five wickets in an over in international T20 cricket across both men’s and women’s matches.
Chasing a target of 168, Cambodia were still in the contest at the end of the 15th over, with the scoreboard reading 106 for 5. At that point, Priandana was introduced into the attack and he completely turned the match on its head. Bowling his first over of the match, he claimed a hat-trick with the first three deliveries, dismissing Shah Abrar Hussain, Nirmaljit Singh and Chanthoeun Rathanak. After a dot ball, Priandana removed Mongdara Sok and Pel Vennak off the final two deliveries. Cambodia managed just one run in the over — a wide — and eventually fell 60 runs short of the target.
Priandana also contributed with the bat earlier in the match, scoring 6 off 11 balls while opening the innings. However, the standout performer for Indonesia was wicketkeeper-batter Dharma Kesuma, who played a commanding knock of 110 not out from 68 balls, including eight fours and six sixes.
While this is the first such instance in international T20 cricket, the feat has previously been achieved twice in men’s domestic T20s. In the 2013–14 Victory Day T20 Cup, Al-Amin Hossain took five wickets in an over for UCB-BCB XI against Abahani Limited. Later, in the 2019–20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy semi-final, Karnataka’s Abhimanyu Mithun dismissed five Haryana batters in a single over.
Before Priandana’s achievement, there had been 14 instances of a bowler taking four wickets in an over in T20 Internationals. The most famous of those came in 2019, when Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga claimed four wickets in four consecutive deliveries against New Zealand.