Randell first bowled Henry Cooper on the last ball of his second over. In his next over, he dismissed former New Zealand Test opener Jeet Raval. He then claimed a hat-trick with Joe Carter caught behind. His fourth wicket camw when Robert O'Donnell edged Randell's outswinger to Curtis Heaphy in the slips.

Randell then added a fifth wicket in five balls to his tally when Kristian Clarke flirted at a delivery well outside off, got a thin inside-edge with the ball bouncing back onto his stumps and disturbing his leg bail.

Only spinner Bryan Yuile (9-100 in 1966) has taken a better first-class bag for the team, but Randell's feat, with all seven wickets falling in the same session -- Day Two of the sixth round match at McLean Park against Plunket Shield leader Northern Districts -- will go down in history for the one-of-a-kind first-class hat-trick.

Randell's first five wickets had Northern Districts reeling at 9/5 - and at one point he himself was sitting on figures of 7/4. He claimed just the eighth hat-trick in Stags first-class cricket, and helped to dismiss Northern Districts for just 82. Stags captain Tom Bruce then enforced the follow on with a lead of 291, after having been sent in on the previous sunny morning in Napier.

Only spinner Bryan Yuile (9-100 in 1966) has taken a better first-class bag for the team, but Randell's feat, with all seven wickets falling in the same session -- Day Two of the sixth round match at McLean Park against Plunket Shield leader Northern Districts -- will go down in history for the one-of-a-kind first-class hat-trick.

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“It gets drummed into us a lot that we don't want to go searching for wickets, so I was trying to just keep bowling the same ball, and our “Plan A” that we’d talked about, and it came off.

I had no idea that it was the first time it [five wicket in five balls in first-class cricket] had happened in the world, it's seriously cool. I mean, I don't really have any words at the moment, to be honest. I'll take it," he added.

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