Premier Cricket: Malaysian cricketers join Casey South Melbourne

An international player who was part of a cricket world record has joined Casey South Melbourne on the eve of the Premier Cricket season.

Virandeep Singh was part of a cricket world record.

Casey South Melbourne’s latest cricket recruit boasts an impressive resume even the best in the game can’t match.

Malaysian cricketer Virandeep Singh has captained his country and played international Twenty20 cricket.

He was also part of a cricket world record in a televised game in Nepal in April when Malaysia took six wickets in six balls.

Singh was in the thick of the action, bowling the final over when the carnage occurred.

He took a wicket from the first legal ball of the over before there was a run-out off the second ball.

Singh then took four wickets with his next four deliveries, with commentators claiming the six-in-six had “never happened in the history of the game’’.

Malaysian cricketer Virandeep Singh. Picture: Facebook

Singh has joined Casey South Melbourne for the 2022-23 season, along with his Malaysian teammate Syed Aziz.

“Virandeep will spend the majority of summer here, albeit he has to return home for a couple of tournaments with Malaysia in December but he will return in January,” Casey South Melbourne coach Will Carr said.

“He decided he wanted to come and look at Premier Cricket in Melbourne and we were able to accommodate him.

“He’s a batter, who bowls a bit.”

Carr said Singh was “certainly at the level of Premier First XI cricket’’.

Aziz, 24, is a batting all rounder who took his first five-wicket haul in List A cricket in July.

Singh and Aziz played in a Casey South Melbourne practice match last week and Carr said they would push for senior selection at some stage this season.

The Swans, after playing off in last season’s grand final, are re-energised, hungry and ready to build on last season.

The buzz word at the Swans is stability. All key players have stayed, with run machine Ashley Chandrasinghe and leg-spinner Ruwantha Kellapotha set to star again as they pursue exciting opportunities at a higher level this season.

Michael Wallace will again lead a well-balanced side packed with talent, with Nathan Lambden and Jackson Fry to provide the firepower with the ball.

St Kilda recruit Michael De Iacovo adds a new dimension to the batting. He’s explosive and damaging and could set the Swans alight at different times.