A Staffordshire cricketer has achieved one of the rarest feats in the sport, taking six wickets in six balls during a club match. Fast bowler Myles Davis completed a double hat-trick while playing for Penkridge against Pelsall in the South Staffordshire County League Premier Division.
After Penkridge posted 168 all out, Pelsall reached 49-2 in eight overs, with Davis already having claimed one wicket. He began his ninth over with a wide before unleashing a devastating spell. Davis clean bowled two batters with the final two deliveries of that over, prompting teammates to scramble for their phones to record the hat-trick ball at the start of his next over.
That ball produced a catch down the leg side to the wicketkeeper. The phones were put away briefly but came out again as Davis bowled the next batter, knocked out the middle stump of the following batsman, and sealed the sixth wicket by removing off stump, leaving Pelsall at 49-9.
"It's still a bit surreal, but it's an amazing achievement," Davis told BBC Midlands Today. "I didn't know what to think, to be honest. When the fourth wicket happened I was just amazed and it just carried on. I couldn't believe it."
Davis finished with figures of 7-16 from six overs as Penkridge won by 116 runs. The right-arm quick joined an exclusive club, with Penkridge chairman John Price noting it is believed to be only the seventh time this has occurred worldwide and the first by an adult male in the UK.
The feat echoes that of 12-year-old Oliver Whitehouse, who took six wickets in six balls for Bromsgrove in June 2023.