Walsh's was unusual since, like Hughes's (which was in the very next Test in the series), other wickets fell between the beginning and end of the hat-trick. Two other hat-tricks have taken place over two innings rather than one, both taken by West Indians against Australia- Courtney Walsh and Jermaine Lawson. Even more unusually, Hughes's two first-innings wickets were not consecutive, since Tim May had bowled an over himself in between Hughes's two deliveries, and took the wicket of Gus Logie. He then removed the opener Gordon Greenidge with the first ball of the West Indies second innings. With the first ball of his next over he took the final wicket of the West Indies innings (Patrick Patterson). He took a wicket (Curtly Ambrose) with the final ball of an over. Īustralian Merv Hughes is the only bowler to take a hat-trick where the wickets fell over three overs. This also makes it the most aggregated average of the three batsmen. Indian pacer Irfan Pathan is the only bowler to take a hat-trick in the first over of a Test match, against Pakistan in 2006. Australian Peter Siddle is the only bowler to take a hat-trick on his birthday, and Bangladeshi off spinner Sohag Gazi is the only player to score a century and take a hat-trick in the same Test match. Alok Kapali took the fewest total Test wickets of any player who recorded a hat-trick, taking only six wickets in his entire Test career. Three players have taken a hat-trick on their Test debut: English medium pace bowler Maurice Allom in 1930, New Zealand off-spinner Peter Petherick in 1976, and Australian pace bowler Damien Fleming in 1994. Only three other cricketers have taken more than one Test hat-trick: Australian off spinner Hugh Trumble (two years apart, between the same teams at the same ground), Pakistani fast bowler Wasim Akram (just over a week apart, in consecutive matches between the same teams) and English fast bowler Stuart Broad. He completed both hat-tricks by dismissing South Africa's Tommy Ward. 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, both taken on. Ī player has taken two hat-tricks in the same Test match only once. The most recent hat-trick was taken by South Africa's spin bowler Keshav Maharaj against the West Indies in June 2021 at Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet, Saint Lucia. The first Test hat-trick was recorded 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 with consecutive deliveries at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. As of June 2021, this feat has only been achieved 46 times in more than two thousand Test matches, the form of the sport in which national representative teams compete in matches of up to five days' duration. In the sport of cricket, a hat-trick is an occasion where a bowler takes three wickets in consecutive deliveries, dismissing three different batsmen. English cricketer Stuart Broad took hat-tricks against India at Trent Bridge in 2011 and against Sri Lanka at Headingley in 2014.