23 Mar 2023

High school cricket player bowls perfect over

From Morning Report, 7:57 am on 23 March 2023

It's almost unheard of.

A perfect over in a cricket match - six wickets from six balls bowled.

Well, yesterday Palmerston North Boys' High School fast bowler Matt Rowe completed that remarkable feat in a game against Rotorua Boys High School in Tauranga.

He ended up with nine wickets for just 12 runs from his spell of bowling

Playing for a place in the Super 8 tournament final, Matt Rowe opened the bowling, and had a wicket in his first over.

He told told Morning Report producer Ben Strang his perfect over is now a blur.