Brazil’s Laura Cardoso has turn out to be the primary participant ever to take nine wickets in a T20 international, recording figures of 9-4 towards Lesotho.
The seamer achieved the feat in three overs as Lesotho had been bowled out for 13 in 6.2 overs, chasing 203.
The 21-year-old now has the very best figures in the format, besting the earlier record held by Bhutan’s Sonam Yeshey, who took eight wickets for seven runs towards Myanmar in a males’s T20 international in 2025.
In girls’s cricket, Cardoso surpassed Indonesia’s Rohmalia Rohmalia’s figures of 7-0 towards Mongolia in 2024.
Cricket Brasil president Roberta Moretti, who witnessed all of Cardoso’s dismissals from her place at first slip, mentioned her team-mate is a participant with enormous potential.
“I don’t think this is the end. She’s still only 21 and I believe Laura is someone who can one day play at the elite level in England and Australia,” she advised BBC Sport.
“For me it’s a joy to see an athlete like Laura becoming the cricketer she is, with her work ethic and passion for the game.
“She got here from one among our grassroots programmes and thru the entire pathways and is without doubt one of the best cricketers Brazil has produced.”
Cardoso started her remarkable run of dismissals by taking wickets with five consecutive deliveries, spanning the last three balls of the second over and first two of the fourth to leave Lesotho sprawling on 8-5.
She took two further wickets in the remainder of the over, recording a second maiden, then removed another pair of batters in the fifth over.
However she was denied a 10-wicket haul when Marianne Artur had Lindiwe Polaki, one of only three Lesotho batters to score a run, stumped to conclude the match.
Brazil are unbeaten in 5 matches on the six-team Kalahari Women’s T20 match, which is being staged totally in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana.
