The club cricketer who took six wickets in six balls - and the ‘chaotic’ week which followed

Myles Davis admits his life has gone crazy in the last six days.

The full-time electrician and part-time cricketer arrived as normal last Saturday to play for Penkridge CC, between Wolverhampton and Stafford in the West Midlands, in the South Staffordshire League’s Premier Division. When he left the club a few hours later, he was about to go viral after completing the incredibly rare feat of taking a double hat-trick.

For clarity, a hat-trick in cricket is when a bowler takes three wickets in three consecutive deliveries. Davis went considerably further, taking six wickets in six balls to bowl his side to a 116-run victory over Pelsall, a club based near Walsall for whom former England spinner Monty Panesar recently signed.

By the end of the week, after a flood of requests for interviews, Davis found himself appearing on the popular BBC podcast Tailenders alongside the former England fast bowler Tymal Mills.

“My week has been absolute chaos,” Davis tells The Athletic. “It’s been a week like nothing I’ve experienced before. It’s been crazy, just juggling work around, being on call, doing interviews and then just trying to do day-to-day life.

“I wouldn’t have wished it any other way, but yeah, it’s been chaotic. It’s definitely been a week I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”

While it is almost impossible to know how often Davis’s feat has been equalled at similar levels of amateur cricket, it has never been achieved in the professional game.

Earlier this year, New Zealander Brett Randell became the first bowler in the 254-year history of first-class cricket — the level of longer-form, red-ball cricket that sits below the Test match game — to take five wickets in five balls.

The 30-year-old achieved the feat while playing for Central Stags against Northern Districts in New Zealand’s Plunket Shield.

And in July 2025, Ireland international Curtis Campher became the first male player to take five wickets in five balls in a professional match while playing for Munster Reds against North-West Warriors in a domestic T20 game in Dublin.

There have been 49 conventional hat-tricks in Test cricket, the first by Fred Spofforth for Australia against England in Melbourne in 1879 and the most recent by another Australian, Scott Boland, against West Indies in Jamaica last July.

Last weekend, Penkridge won the toss and batted first and were bowled out for 168 with opener Amaan Hassan top-scoring with 87 and Davis, batting at No 9, managing two. But his day was about to improve. Dramatically.

Pelsall reached 49-2 in reply with Davis and fellow new-ball bowler Dean Lones taking a wicket each before the chaos began.

Davis clean bowled Peter Stevens and Ashan Akbar with the final two balls of his fifth over to leave himself on a hat-trick when he returned for his sixth.

Lones then claimed his second wicket in his sixth over to reduce Pelsall to 49-5 before Davis had Alex Jones caught by wicketkeeper Teddy Szewczyk to complete the third hat-trick of his Penkridge career. Remarkably, he took two last summer.

But this time, the 22-year-old right-arm medium-pacer was only just getting started.

He clean bowled Daniel Pennell, Tom Wright and Jamie Holmes with his next three balls to complete his remarkable double hat-trick and leave Pelsall 49-9, having lost seven wickets without adding to their score.

They moved their score to 52 before Lones claimed the final wicket in his next over to complete Penkridge’s win. “I think pure adrenaline really took over, and I was just zoned in,” says Davis, who ended with overall figures of 7-16 from six overs.

“I was just focused on running in, bowling and just getting another wicket. I was aiming to just get it full and straight and to hit the stumps.”

Penkridge, who have won one game and lost the other so far this season, are back in action on Saturday at home to Wolverhampton club Fordhouses. The visitors will be wary of what awaits.

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