Gaborone (Botswana), April 9 -- Laura Cardoso etched her name into the record books, becoming the first player in either men's or women's T20I cricket to pick up nine wickets ina single innings.
Cardoso delivered a sensational spell against Lesotho, finishing with extraordinary figures of 9/4 from her three overs, the best-ever bowling figures in T20I cricket.
The previous best was held by Bhutan's Sonam Yeshey, who claimed eight wickets for just seven runs against Myanmar in a Men's T20I in 2025.
In Women's T20Is, Cardoso surpassed Indonesia's Rohmalia Rohmalia's figures of 7/0 against Mongolia in 2024, according to ICC.
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