Test cricket hat-tricks
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This is a list of all hat-tricks in Test cricket; that is, the occasions when a bowler has taken three wickets in consecutive deliveries in Test cricket matches. As of 29 January 2006, a hat-trick has been taken 36 times since the first Test match in 1877, most recently by Indian fast bowler Irfan Pathan on 29 January 2006 in the 1783rd Test. On average, a hat-trick occurs roughly every 50 Tests. At least one bowler from each of the ten nations that play Test cricket has taken a Test hat-trick.
In the five-match series between a Rest of the World XI against England in 1970, a hat-trick was taken by South African Eddie Barlow in the fourth match, at Headingley (the last three of four wickets in five balls).[1] These matches were considered to be Tests at the time, but that status was later removed.
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[edit] Notable Test hat-tricks
- A player has taken two hat-tricks in the same Test match only once. Playing for Australia against South Africa in the first match of the 1912 Triangular Tournament at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, leg spinner Jimmy Matthews took a hat-trick in South Africa's first and second innings (No. 8 and 9 in the list below), both taken on 28 May 1912.
- Only two other cricketers have taken a Test hat-trick more than once: Australian off spinner Hugh Trumble (No. 6 and 7 in the list below, two years apart, between the same teams at the same ground) and Pakistani fast bowler Wasim Akram (No. 24 and 25 in the list below, just over a week apart, in consecutive matches between the same teams). Wasim Akram is also the only player to have taken a hat-trick while Test captain.
- Only two cricketers have taken a Test hat-trick and a One-Day International hat-trick: both Pakistani bowlers, Mohammed Sami and Wasim Akram; however, Wasim Akram has the unique distinction of taking two Test hat-tricks and two ODI hat-tricks, making four international hat-tricks in all.
- Three players have taken a hat-trick on their Test debut, English medium pace bowler Maurice Allom in 1930 (No. 10), New Zealand off-spinner Peter Petherick in 1976 (No. 17), and Australian medium pace bowler Damien Fleming in 1994 (No. 20).
- No player has taken four wickets in four balls, but Allom's hat-trick was the last three of four wickets in five balls of his eighth over in Test cricket (the second ball being a dot ball). Two other Test players have taken four wickets in five balls: Chris Old, playing for England against Pakistan at Edgbaston in 1978 (the third ball of the series was a no ball), and Wasim Akram, playing for Pakistan against West Indies at Lahore in 1990-91 (the third ball of the series was a dot ball).
- The youngest player to take a hat-trick is Bangladeshi leg spinner Alok Kapali (No. 32), when aged 19 years 240 days. The oldest player is English off spinner Tom Goddard (No.11), aged 38 years and 87 days.
- Irfan Pathan (No. 36) is the only bowler to have taken a hat-trick in the first over of a Test match.
- Merv Hughes (No. 19) is the only bowler to have taken a Test hat-trick with each ball in a different over.
[edit] List of Test hat-tricks
[edit] Notes
- ^ Spofforth took 6 wickets for 48 runs in the first innings, and 7 wickets for 62 runs in the second innings. Australia won by 10 wickets.
- ^ Bates took seven wickets in each innings, and also scored 55 runs, the second highest on either side in the match. England won by an innings and 27 runs, the first innings victory in Tests.
- ^ On a matting wicket in South Africa, Lohmann took 7 wickets for 38 runs in the first innings, and 8 wickets for 7 runs in the second innings. The hat-trick ended the second innings, with South Africa bowled out for 30 runs having faced 112 balls. Lohmann scored a pair while batting. In a three-match series, Lohmann took 35 wickets at a bowling average of 5.80.
- ^ a b c Last three wickets to win the match.
- ^ Trumble took a hat-trick in the second innings although he hadn't bowled in the first innings.
- ^ a b Same match.
- ^ a b c On debut.
- ^ South African opening batsman Trevor Goddard carried his bat through this innings.
- ^ This was Griffin's second match. He was no balled 11 times for throwing, and again in the exhibition match following the early end of the Test, and never played Test cricket again.
- ^ First wicket in first innings; second and third wickets in second innings two days later.
- ^ Each ball bowled in a different over, the first and second in the first innings and the third in the second innings, over 24 hours later.
- ^ a b Consecutive matches between the same sides.
- ^ Third match of the Asian Test Championship 1998/99.
- ^ Final of the Asian Test Championship 1998/99.
- ^ First three balls of the second over of the innings.
- ^ Final of the Asian Test Championship 2001/02.
- ^ First two wickets at the end of the first innings on the second day; third wicket at the start of the second innings towards the end of the fifth day.
- ^ Last three balls of the first over of the match.
[edit] See also
- One-day International cricket hat-tricks
- List of Test cricket triple centuries
- Category:Test hat-trick takers
[edit] References
- Lists
- Full
- Bowlers Taking Hat Tricks (a list to Pathan, No.36, with dismissed batsmen), Howstat, 2006. Last accessed 21 March 2006.
- Hat Tricks in Test Matches (a list to Pathan, No.36, with dismissed batsmen), Cricinfo, 2006. Last accessed 21 March 2006.
- Partial
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (includes a list to Franklin, No.35), 2005, Matthew Engel (ed), John Wisden & Co Ltd, ISBN 0-947766-89-8 (and earlier editions)
- Lawson - the fourth West Indian to perform a hat-trick (includes a list to Lawson, No.31), Cricket Archive, 2003. Last accessed 21 March 2006.
- Hat-tricks in Test Cricket (includes a list to Sami, No.30, with dates, batsmen and dismissals), h2g2, 21 February 2003. Last accessed 21 March 2006.
- Sami bowls into record books (includes a list to Sami, No.30, with innings, Test, and dismissal), Cricinfo, March 22, 2002. Last accessed 21 March 2006.
- Harbhajan makes history (includes a list to Harbhajan, No.29, with innings, Test, and dismissal), Cricinfo, March 12, 2001. Last accessed 21 March 2006.
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