A bowler from Bhutan has turn into the primary cricketer to take eight wickets in a T20 worldwide.
Left-arm spinner Sonam Yeshey completed with positive figures of 8-7 from 4 overs in his facet’s 82-run win, external over Myanmar within the third of 5 males’s T20s between the perimeters in Gelephu.
The 22-year-old now has the all-time figures of any bowler in males’s or ladies’s T20 worldwide cricket.
Yeshey instructed BBC Sport he felt “immense satisfaction” for “making a world document” as he mirrored on the assist he has obtained to attain the feat.
“My household’s unwavering love, sacrifices, and perception in me gave me the power to maintain going via each problem, reminding me why this dream mattered,” he mentioned.
“Bhutan Cricket’s fixed assist, steering, and belief offered me with the platform and confidence to push my limits and symbolize one thing greater than myself.”
Six of Yeshey’s wickets have been caught whereas one was bowled and the opposite lbw.
Bhutan have been victorious after they made 127-9 then bowled out Myanmar for 45.
Malaysian seamer Syazrul Idrus beforehand held the very best T20 figures for a person with the 7-8 he claimed against China in July 2023.
Indonesia off-spinner Rohmalia Rohmalia has the very best figures in ladies’s T20s for her 7-0 against Mongolia in April 2024.
Bhutan are an Affiliate member of the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) and plenty of gamers representing international locations at that stage are unpaid amateurs.
Nonetheless, Bhutan have 36 gamers – equally break up throughout their males’s and ladies’s nationwide sides – who’re paid through central contracts.
Bhutan are at the moment ranked 77th within the ICC males’s T20 rankings whereas Myanmar are ninety fifth.
