Brazil’s Laura Cardoso breaks world record, becomes first to take 9 wickets in a T20I match | Cricket News
2 min readApr 9, 2026 10:15 PM IST Brazil fast bowler Laura Cardoso on Thursady became the first player to take nine wickets in a T20 International. She accomplished the feat in a match against Lesotho in the Kalahari Women’s T20 International tournament, returning figures of 9/4 in three overs as Lesotho were bowled out for just 13 runs in reply to Brazil’s 202/8. She is the first to achieve the feat across men’s or women’s T20Is. The previous record belonged to Bhutan’s male left-arm spinner, Sonam Yeshey, who had figures of 8 for 7 against Myanmar last year. Indonesia’s off spinner Rohmalia Rohmalia held the record in women’s cricket – she had taken figures of 7/0 against Mongolia in April 2024. Cardoso’s efforts helped Brazil beat Lesotho by a whopping 189 runs, which is third highest margin of victory by runs in T20Is, according to ESPNCricinfo. Wicketkeeper Monnike Machado’s unbeaten 41-ball 59 and a 35-ball 48 by Roberta Avery earlier helped Brazil past the 200-run mark. Cardoso’s first over was the second of the …
