Gaborone: Brazil right-arm pacer Laura Cardoso etched her name in the record books with a nine-wicket haul in the 14th edition of the Kalahari Women’s T20I against Lesotho at the Botswana Cricket Association Oval 2 on Thursday.
Cardoso, playing his 48th match for the South American side in the short international format, wreaked havoc with the ball as he took nine for four in his three overs.
As a result, she became the bowler with the best tally in either men’s or women’s T20I cricket, breaking the previous record of Bhutan’s Sonam Yeshe who took eight for seven against Myanmar in a men’s T20I in 2025.
However, in women’s T20Is, Cardoso beat Indonesia’s Rohmalia Romalia’s figures of 7/0 against Mongolia in 2024.
Cardoso began his streak in the second over of Lesotho’s innings, immediately asserting his dominance by taking a hat-trick. He followed that up with a four-wicket haul in his second over, taking his tournament tally to seven.
The right-arm pacer took two more wickets in his third over, taking him to an unprecedented nine scalps in an innings.
Monique Machado’s unbeaten half-century saw South Africa amass a mammoth total of 202/8 in 20 overs as Brazil thrashed Lesotho by 189 runs.
The Brazilian wicketkeeper top-scored with an unbeaten 69 off 41 balls, followed by fellow middle-order batsman Roberta Moretti Avery’s 48 off 35 balls with the help of 5 fours. The duo shared a 97-run partnership for the fifth wicket.
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