Curtis Campher had a poor start with the ball but came back in his second over to bamboozle Netherlands taking a hat-trick.
Scotland shocked Bangladesh on the first day of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021 and now Ireland had Netherland on the backfoot owing to pacer Curtis Campher's outrageous spell as the Dutch went from 50/2 to 52/6 in the span of just one over.
The right-arm fast medium pacer had a rough start to his spell when he came on to bowl the seventh over of Ireland's bowling innings. He conceded a couple of boundaries, sprayed one down the leg side and the men in orange accumulated 12 runs from the over.
He returned in the 10th over of the innings and bowled the first ball wide but came back well from then on as he took not one, not two but four wickets in a row. He first dismissed Colin Ackermann when the Dutch batter tried to pull it towards the fine leg but could only get it as far as the keeper's gloves. The umpire signalled it wide but the Irish team decided to for a review and the ultra edge showed a nick.
Campher then trapped Ryan ten Doeschate LBW on the next delivery and followed it by hitting Scott Edwards' pads as well. Again umpire gave it not out and Ireland reversed it with the help of DRS and Campher had his hat-trick.
He became the second bowler to take a hat-trick in the T20 World Cup after Brett Lee, who achieved the feat in the 2007 World T20. However, the South Africa-born cricketer didn't have enough as he got Roelof van der Merwe to chop onto his stumps and he had four wickets in four balls.
Campher became only the third bowler to pick up four wickets in four consecutive balls in T20Is after Lasith Malinga and Rashid Khan as Ireland were able to dismiss the Netherlands for just 109 runs.
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