Hat-trick

Author: Leandro Alegsa Creation date: November 13, 2022

A hat-trick, hat trick or hattrick in sports means that something is done 3 times. For example: goals, wickets and so forth.

Word Origin

The term has its origins in cricket. As far as is known today, in 1858 at Hyde Park Ground in Sheffield, Heathfield Harman ("HH") Stephenson became the first bowler to convert three successive throws into three wickets. He was presented with a hat (English hat) as a special award for this sporting achievement. In connection with the word for a feat (English trick), this developed into the phrase hat trick, which was adopted as a foreign word in German usage when written together.

Cricket

So far, there have been 45 hat-tricks in Test cricket and 49 in One-Day Internationals. In Twenty20s, there have been 13 hat-tricks so far (as on 21 February 2020).

Four wickets in four consecutive balls is sometimes referred to as a double hat-trick, as in a sense it contains two sequences of three consecutive wickets each. Although there have been several instances in first-class cricket, it has only occurred once in international cricket, and that was during the 2007 Cricket World Cup match between Sri Lanka and South Africa. Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith Malinga achieved this feat when he successively bowled out first Shaun Pollock and Andrew Hall and then Jacques Kallis and Makhaya Ntini with the first two balls of his next over.

Test Match Hat Tricks
No.	Bowler	Country	Opponents	Location	Season
1	Fred Spofforth	Australia	England	Melbourne Cricket Ground	1878/79
2	Billy Bates	England	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	1882/83
3	John Briggs	England	Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground	1891/92
4	George Lohmann	England	South Africa	St George's Park, Port Elizabeth	1895/96
5	Jack Hearne	England	Australia	Headingley, Leeds	1899
6	Hugh Trumble	Australia	England	Melbourne Cricket Ground	1901/02
7	Hugh Trumble	Australia	England	Melbourne Cricket Ground	1903/04
8	Jimmy Matthews1	Australia	South Africa	Old Trafford, Manchester	1912
9	Jimmy Matthews1	Australia	South Africa	Old Trafford, Manchester	1912
10	Maurice Allom2	England	New Zealand	Lancaster Park, Christchurch	1929/30
11	Tom Goddard	England	South Africa	Johannesburg	1938/39
12	Peter Loader	England	West Indies	Headingley, Leeds	1957
13	Lindsay Kline	Australia	South Africa	Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town	1957/58
14	Wesley Hall	West Indies	Pakistan	Lahore Stadium, Lahore	1958/59
15	Geoff Griffin	South Africa	England	Lord's Cricket Ground, London	1960
16	Lance Gibbs	West Indies	Australia	Adelaide Oval	1960/61
17	Peter Petherick2	New Zealand	Pakistan	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	1976/77
18	Courtney Walsh3	West Indies	Australia	Brisbane Cricket Ground	1988/89
19	Mervyn Hughes3	Australia	West Indies	WACA Ground, Perth	1988/89
20	Damien Fleming2	Australia	Pakistan	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium	1994/95
21	Shane Warne	Australia	England	Melbourne Cricket Ground	1994/95
22	Dominic Cork	England	West Indies	Old Trafford, Manchester	1995
23	Darren Gough	England	Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground	1998/99
24	Wasim Akram4	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	1998/99
25	Wasim Akram4	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	1998/99
26	Nuwan Zoysa	Sri Lanka	Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	1999/00
27	Abdur Razzaq	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium	2000
28	Glenn McGrath	Australia	West Indies	WACA Ground, Perth	2000/01
29	Harbhajan Singh	India	Australia	Eden Gardens, Calcutta	2000/01
30	Mohammed Sami	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	2001/02
31	Jermaine Lawson3	West Indies	Australia	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	2003
32	Alok Kapali	Bangladesh	Pakistan	Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar	2003
33	Andy Blignaut	Zimbabwe	Bangladesh	Harare	2003/04
34	Matthew Hoggard	England	West Indies	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	2003/04
35	James Franklin	New Zealand	Bangladesh	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	2004/05
36	Irfan Pathan5	India	Pakistan	National Stadium, Karachi	2005/06
37	Ryan Sidebottom	England	New Zealand	Seddon Park, Hamilton	2007/08
38	Peter Siddle6	Australia	England	Brisbane Cricket Ground	2010/11
39	Stuart Broad	England	India	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	2011
40	Sohag Gazi	Bangladesh	New Zealand	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong	2013/14
41	Stuart Broad	England	Sri Lanka	Headingley, Leeds	2014
42	Ranga Herath	Sri Lanka	Australia	Bile	2016
43	Moeen Ali	England	South Africa	The Oval, London	2017
44	jasprit bumrah	India	West Indies	Sabina Park, Kingston	2019
45	Naseem Shah	Pakistan	Bangladesh	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium	2019/20

¹ A hat trick in both innings of the game.

² In his first test match

³ Not all in the same innings

⁴ In consecutive matches

⁵ With the last three throws of the first over of the match.

⁶ On his 26th birthday