A Staffordshire cricketer has described achieving one of the rarest feats in the game as “a bit surreal” but “amazing” after taking six wickets in six balls.
Fast bowler Myles Davis completed the double hat-trick playing for Penkridge against Pelsall in the Premier Division of the South Staffordshire County League on Saturday., external
After Penkridge had won the toss and made 168 all out, Pelsall, who were without former England spinner Monty Panesar, were 49-2 after eight overs, with Davies having already picked up his first wicket in his third over.
He started the ninth over with a wide before readjusting his radar with devastating effect.
Davis clean bowled two batters with the final two deliveries of his over, sending his watching club-mates scrambling for their mobile phones to film the hat-trick ball at the start of his next one.
That duly arrived to a catch down the legside to the wicketkeeper, before the phones went away – only to come out again after the next batter was bowled.
Davies then knocked out the middle stump of the next batter and sealed his sixth wicket in six balls by removing the off stump of another to leave Pelsall 49-9.
“It’s still a bit surreal, but it’s an amazing achievement,” Davis told BBC Midlands Today.
“I didn’t know what to think, to be honest. When the fourth [wicket] happened I was just amazed and it just carried on. I couldn’t believe it.”