While hardcore players may not be in a position to create records in T20 International cricket, raw amateurs are going great guns and establishing records for countries that have no tradition at all in the once summer sport.
The latest record breaker in T20 Internationals plays for Indonesia named Rohmalia Rohmalia who took seven wickets for no run (7-0) to claim the best figures in T20 International history on Friday.
It is the result of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in its quest to spread the game far and wide and gain more commercial partners, taking into the fold any country that can throw a bat to a ball or bowl a ball to a bat in the same way that the world’s hardcore and traditional cricket playing countries playing Test cricket are doing.
The highest totals in T20 International cricket have also been made by non-Test playing nations with the highest being 314 for 3 by Nepal against Mongolia in 2023 and 278 for 4 made by the Czech Republic against Turkey.
Rohmalia is a 17-year old girl and was playing in her first International cricket match when she performed the feat against Mongolia at a venue called Bali.
Mongolia were all out for just 24 in 16.2 overs after Indonesia set out to defend a total of 152.
Rohmalia plucked a wicket in her first ball and five of her victims could not score a single run as she bowled 3.2 overs.
Earlier the best bowling figures in T20 Internationals was not held by any play from established countries, but by a player in Argentina named Alison Stocks who jointly holds the record with a player named Frederique Overdiik from the Netherlands as both took seven wickets for three runs (7-3).
Even in men’s T20 Internationals, the record for best bowling figures is held by a non-full member of the ICC which is Malaysia by a player named Svazrul Idrus who took seven wickets for eight runs (7-8) against China.
