Overview
- Brazil seamer Laura Cardoso, who starred Thursday in Gaborone, took 9 for 4 in three overs against Lesotho to set a T20I record and deliver a 189-run win.
- Her spell featured five wickets in five consecutive balls across two overs, a first in international cricket.
- The ICC lists her figures as the best in any T20I, and Wisden calls them the best in recorded limited-overs cricket.
- Brazil posted 202 for 8 before Lesotho were all out for 13 in 6.2 overs, with teammate Marianne Artur taking the final wicket after Cardoso claimed the first nine.
- The right-arm quick, a product of Brazil’s development programme, has lifted an unbeaten Brazil to the top of the BCA Kalahari tournament group stage in Gaborone.