A hat-trick in the
cricket is actually an occasion when a bowler takes three wickets in consecutive deliveries of three bowls. It can be in two different matches or in different over of same match, but a
no or wide ball shouldn’t be bowled in between.
Test Match:
Till 13 October 2013, this has been achieved 40 times in over 2000 Test matches. The first Test hat-trick was got on 2 January 1879, in only the third Test match to take place, by the Australian pace bowler
Fred Spofforth, nicknamed “The Demon Bowler”, who dismissed three English batsmen at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
At least one bowler from each of the ten nations that play Test cricket has taken a Test hat-trick. The most recent, a Bangladeshi spinner
Sohaag Gazi has achieved the record against New Zealand on 13 October 2013. He made his Test debut in first test during West Indies’s tour of Bangladesh in 2012, taking six wickets in the second innings. He is the first and so far, only man to score a century and take a hat-trick in the same Test match and the first man to do it twice in First Class matches while
Peter Siddle (Aus) is the only bowler to take a hat-trick on his birthday.
Harbhajan Singh and
Irfaan Pathan are the only Indian bowlers who have got the hat-tricks in the test match. Irfaan Pathan got his hat-trick in Karachi against Pakistan in 2006. It is only hat-trick in the world cricket which was achieved in the first over of the match.
Jimmy Matthews (Aus) is only bowler who has taken two hat-tricks in the both innings of the same Test match against South Africa in the first match of the Triangular Tournament at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, on 28 May 1912. Only two other cricketers have taken more than one Test hat-trick –
Hugh Trumble (Aus) and
Wasim Akram (Pak). Only three players
Maurice Allom (Eng) in 1930,
Peter Petherick (NZ) in 1976, and
Damien Fleming (Aus) in 1994 have taken a hat-trick on their Test debut.
Geoff Griffin took only 8 Test wickets in his entire Test career with a hat-trick. Griffin was repeatedly called for throwing by the umpires during the match he took his hat-trick, and after that he never bowled again in a Test match.
Following is the list of Hat-tricks in Test Match Crickets:
| Bowler (country) | V/S | Venue | Year |
| Fredrick Spofforth (Aus) | Eng | Melbourne | 02.01.1879 |
| Billy Bates (Eng) | Aus | Melbourne | 20.01.1883 |
| Johnny Briggs (Eng) | Aus | Sydney | 02.02.1892 |
| Gregory Lohmann (Eng) | SA | P’Elizabeth | 14.02.1896 |
| Jack Hearne (Eng) | Aus | Leeds | 30.06.1899 |
| Hugh Trumble (Aus) | Eng | Melbourne | 04.01.1902 |
| Hugh Trumble (Aus) | Eng | Melbourne | 08.03.1904 |
| Jimmy Mathews (Aus) | SA | Manchester | 28.05.1912 |
| Jimmy Mathews (Aus) | SA | Manchester | 28.05.1912 |
| Maurice Allom (Eng) | NZ | C’church | 10.01.1930 |
| Tom Goddard (Eng) | SA | Jo’burg | 26.12.1938 |
| Peter Loader (Eng) | WI | Leeds | 25,07.1957 |
| Lindsay Kline (Aus) | SA | Cape Town | 03.01.1958 |
| Wes Hall (WI) | Pak | Lahore | 29.03.1959 |
| Geoff Griffin (SA) | Eng | Lord’s | 24.06.1960 |
| Lance Gibbs (WI) | Aus | Adelaide | 30.01.1961 |
| Peter Petherick (NZ) | Pak | Lahore | 09.10.1976 |
| Courtney Walsh (WI) | Aus | Brisbane | 18.11.1988 |
| Merv Hughes (Aus) | WI | Perth | 04.12.1988 |
| Damien Fleming (Aus) | Pak | Rawalpindi | 09.10.1994 |
| Shane Warne (Aus) | Eng | Melbourne | 29.12.1994 |
| Dominic Cork (Eng) | WI | Manchester | 30.07.1995 |
| Derren Gough (Eng) | Aus | Sydney | 02.01.1999 |
| Wasim Akram (Pak) | SL | Lahore | 06.03.1999 |
| Wasim Akram (Pak) | SL | Dhaka | 14.03.1999 |
| Nuwan Zoysa (SL) | Zim | Harare | 26.11.1999 |
| Abdul Razzaq (Pak) | SL | Galle | 21.06.2000 |
| Glenn McGrath (Aus) | WI | Perth | 01.12.2000 |
| Harbhajan Singh (India) | Aus | Kolkata | 11.03.2001 |
| Mohammad Sami (Pak) | SL | Lahore | 08.03.2002 |
| Jermeny Lawson (WI) | Aus | Bridgetown | 02.05.2003 |
| Alok Kapali (Bng) | Pak | Peshawar | 29.08.2003 |
| Andy Blignaut (Zim) | Bng | Harare | 22.02.2004 |
| Mathew Hoggard (Eng) | WI | Barbados | 03.04.2004 |
| James Franklin (NZ) | Bng | Dhaka | 20.10.2004 |
| Irfan Pathan (India) | Pak | Karachi | 29.01.2006 |
| Ryan Sidebottom (Eng) | NZ | Hamilton | 08.03.2008 |
| nuwan Zoysa (SL) | Eng | Brisbane | 25.11.2010 |
| Stuart Broad (Eng) | Aus | Nottingham | 30.07.2011 |
| Sohaag Gazi (Bng) | NZ | Chattgaon | 13.10.2013 |
One Day International:
In the year 2013, it was a very lucky year for Bangladeshi bowlers because two bowlers have got hat tricks. They are
Sohaag Gazi and
Rubel Hussain who got hat tricks in test and one day international matches against New Zealand in their home.
The most recent bowler to enter the list is
Rubel Hussain of Bngladesh who grabbed 3 back to back wickets against NZ in Mirpur on 29 Oct, 2013. Pakistani bowlers
Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq have got two hat-tricks in their One day career while
Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka is the only bowler to take 4 wickets in 4 balls, doing it in a world cup 2007 match against South Africa, even though his effort couldn’t win the game for his country.
Aaqib Javed is the youngest bowler to take a hat trick in one day internationals.
Following is the list of Hat-tricks in One Day International Crickets:
| Batsman (Country) | V/S | Venue | Date |
| Jalal-ud-din (Pak) | Aus | Hyderabad | 20.09.1982 |
| Bruce Reid (Aus) | NZ | Sydney | 29.01.1986 |
| Chetan Sharma (India) | NZ | Nagpur | 31.10.1987 |
| Wasim Akram (Pak) | WI | Sharjah | 14.10.1989 |
| Wasim Akram (Pak) | Aus | Sharjah | 04.05.1990 |
| Kapil Dev (India) | SL | Kolkata | 04.01.1991 |
| Aaqib Javed (Pak) | Ind | Sharjah | 25.10.1991 |
| Danny Morrison (NZ) | Ind | Napier | 25.05.1994 |
| Waqar Younis (Pak) | NZ | East London | 12.12.1994 |
| Saqlain Mushtaq (Pak) | Zim | Peshawar | 03.11.1996 |
| Eddo Brandes (Zim) | Eng | Harare | 03.01.1997 |
| AM Stuart (Aus) | Pak | Melbourne | 16.01.1997 |
| Saqlain Mushtaq (Pak) | Zim | The Oval | 11.06.1999 |
| Chaminda Vaas (SL) | Zim | Colombo | 08.12.2001 |
| Mohammad Sami (Pak) | WI | Sharjah | 15.02.2002 |
| Chaminda Vaas (SL) | B’desh | P’burg | 14.02.2003 |
| Brett Lee (Aus) | Kenya | Durban | 15.03.2003 |
| James Anderson (Eng) | Pak | The Oval | 20.06.2003 |
| Steve Harmison (Eng) | Ind | Nottingham | 01.10.2004 |
| Charl Lengeveldt (SA) | WI | Barbados | 11.05.2005 |
| Shahadat Hossain (B’desh) | Zim | Harare | 02.08.2006 |
| Jerome Taylor (WI) | Aus | Mumbai | 18.10.2006 |
| Shane Bond (NZ) | Aus | Hobart | 14.01.2007 |
| Lasith Malinga (SL)) | SA | Guyana | 28.03.2007 |
| Andrew Flintoff (Eng) | WI | St Lucia | 03.04.2009 |
| Farveez Maharoof (SL) | Ind | Dam bulla | 22.06.2010 |
| Abdul Razzak (Bng) | ZIM | Mirpur | 03.12.2010 |
| Cemear Coache(WI) | N’lands | New Delhi | 28.02.2011 |
| Latish Malinga (SL) | Kenya | Colombo | 01.03.2011 |
| Latish Malinga (SL) | Aus | Colombo | 22.08.2011 |
| Denial Cristian (Aus) | SL | Melbourne | 02.03.2012 |
| Thisara Parera (SL) | Pak | Colombo | 16.06.2012 |
| Clint Mechay (AUS) | Eng | Cardiff | 14.09.2013 |
| Rubel Hussain (Bng) | NZ | Mirpur | 29.10.2013 |
