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Follow UsIn the first T20I against Sri Lanka on November 9 (Saturday), 24-year-old Mitchell Hay’s international career got off to the worst start possible, with the wicketkeeper batter registering a two-ball duck batting at No.6.
However, he went from zero to hero in the second T20I, scripting an all-time wicketkeeping record with the gloves in hand. That’s right, the wicketkeeper from Canterbury inflicted six dismissals, the most by any wicketkeeper in a single game in the history of T20I cricket.
Hay scored 3 with the bat in hand but took five catches and made a stumping as New Zealand defended 108 to tie the two-match T20I series 1-1.
His contribution with the glove proved decisive as two of the six dismissals came in the very final over the stumping of Matheesha Pathirana and then the catch of Maheesh Theekshana to seal the game for the Blackcaps.
Most dismissals for a wicketkeeper in a T20I
6 - Mitchell Hay (NZ) vs SL, Dambulla, 2024
5 - Mohammad Shahzad (AFG) vs OMN, Abu Dhabi, 2015
5 - MS Dhoni (IND) vs ENG, Bristol, 2018
5 - Irfan Karim (KEN) vs GHA, Kampala, 2019
5 - Kiplin Doriga (PNG) vs VAN, Apia, 2019
It’s not quite the all-time T20 record, however. Sri Lanka’s Upul Fernando holds the record for the most dismissals by a wicketkeeper in a T20 game (7). That came back in 2005 in Sri Lanka’s domestic T20 competition, representing Lankan Cricket Club.
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