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A third-grade cricketer from the Gold Coast has become an overnight global sensation thanks to a feat never seen before in the professional game.
Gareth Morgan took six wickets in six balls to win a game for Mudgeeraba Nerang and Districts Cricket Club against Surfers Paradise in division three at the weekend.
Surfers Paradise needed only four runs to win, and had six wickets in hand, before opposing captain Morgan brought himself on to save the day.
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What transpired next will stick in his memory for a long time.
“Ball one, caught deep mid-wicket boundary,” Morgan recalled when speaking to 9News on Monday.
“Ball two, caught at mid-on. Ball three, caught at short mid-wicket. Ball four, caught at point. Ball five, bowled. Ball six, bowled.”
The six-ball feat stunned Surfers Paradise, as well as Morgan and his teammates who could only sit back and watch the fairytale unfold.
But what happened over the ensuing 24 hours really took the third-grade skipper by surprise.
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International news sites like England’s BBC, India’s The Hindu, Hong Kong-based BNN and North Carolina’s BVM picked up the remarkable story, making Morgan an international star.
“I can’t believe the exposure that Gold Coast third-grade cricket is getting from this,” he said.
“It’s been just non-stop, text after text, call after call.”
On three occasions in professional cricket has a five-wicket over been recorded.
But nowhere on record is there a six-wicket over, putting Morgan in rarefied air.
Remarkably, it wasn’t the first time he had rolled an opposition line-up in the space of one over.
Playing junior cricket several years ago, Morgan took five wickets in five balls, and was robbed of the chance to take a sixth only because the opposition was all out.
“I had a bit of a flashback, and thought ‘this can’t be happening again’,” he said.
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