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In [[cricket]], a '''hat-trick''' occurs when a bowler takes three [[Dismissal (cricket)|
Hat-tricks are rare, and as such are treasured by bowlers.
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==T20 Internationals==
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The first Twenty20 hat-trick was taken by [[Brett Lee]] of [[Australia national cricket team|Australia]], playing against Bangladesh in [[Cape Town]] in September 2007.<ref name=":0"/><ref name="BL1st">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/twenty20wc/engine/match/287866.html |title= 14th Match, Group F, ICC World Twenty20 at Cape Town, Sep 16 2007|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=27 October 2017
[[Rashid Khan]], [[Lasith Malinga]], [[Curtis Campher]] and [[Jason Holder]] are the only bowlers to take four wickets in four balls in T20Is
On 6 August 2021, [[Nathan Ellis]] picked up three wickets off the last three balls [[Australian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2021#3rd T20I|of Bangladesh innings]] to become the first male cricketer to take a hat-trick on his debut in a T20I match.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/58120763 |title=Nathan Ellis: Australia bowler takes hat-trick on debut against Bangladesh |work=BBC Sport |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>
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It has also occurred on other occasions in [[first-class cricket]]. [[Kevan James]] of [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] took four wickets in four balls and scored a century in the same county game against India in 1996. The [[Cricinfo]] report on the game claimed that this was unique in cricket.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1996/IND_IN_ENG/IND_HANTS_29JUN-01JUL1996_ET_MR.html|title=Hampshire v Indians, Match Report. |publisher=CricInfo|access-date=11 April 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1996/IND_IN_ENG/IND_HANTS_29JUN-01JUL1996.html|title=Hampshire v Indians at Southampton, 29 June-1 July 1996|publisher=CricInfo|access-date=11 April 2007}}</ref> It is sometimes claimed that the first cricketer to achieve this feat was Joseph Wells (father of novelist H. G. Wells):<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283446.html|title=Four wickets in four balls|publisher=CricInfo|access-date=19 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1249.html|title=Sussex v Kent at Hove, 1862|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=19 November 2012}}</ref> in 1862 he dismissed Sussex's James Dean, Spencer Leigh, Charles Ellis and Richard Fillery with successive balls. (Spencer Leigh was the great-nephew of [[Jane Austen]].)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154150.html|title=Never a famous cricketer|first=Jonathan|last=Rice|publisher=John Wisden|access-date=19 November 2012}}</ref>
[[Albert Trott]] and [[Joginder Rao]] are the only known bowlers credited with ''two'' hat-tricks in the same innings in first-class cricket (double hat-tricks notwithstanding). One of Trott's two hat-tricks, for Middlesex against Somerset at Lords in 1907, was a four in four (i.e. a double hat-trick). Similarly, there are at least two known instances of first-class hat-tricks from two innings in the same match. Amin Lakhani achieved this feat for the Combined XI side against India in Multan in 1979,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-11-07 |title=Mitchell Starc creates history, takes two hat-tricks in same game ahead of Ashes |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/mitchell-starc-creates-history-takes-two-hat-tricks-in-same-game-ahead-of-ashes/story-u6LGDaBgmXveF6HveYKj1J.html |access-date=2022-08-27 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref> while [[Mitchell Starc]]'s hat-tricks occurred in [[2017–18 Sheffield Shield season|2017]] in a [[Sheffield Shield]] clash between [[New South Wales cricket team|New South Wales]] and [[Western Australia cricket team|Western Australia]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Mitchell Starc takes double hat-trick, creates history |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9NacidK0QI |language=en |access-date=2022-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Watch Starc's two hat-tricks back-to-back |url=https://www.cricket.com.au/video/mitchell-starc-sheffield-shield-two-hat-tricks-nsw-western-australia-watch-highlights/2017-11-08 |access-date=2022-08-27 |website=cricket.com.au |language=en}}</ref>
For Gloucestershire against Yorkshire in 1922, [[Charlie Parker (cricketer)|Charlie Parker]] had a hat-trick that was nearly five wickets in five balls: he actually struck the stumps with five successive deliveries, but the second was a no-ball.
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A 'perfect over' of 6 wickets taken with 6 consecutive balls was achieved by Australian Aled Carey on 21 January 2017 while bowling for Golden Point Cricket Club against East Ballarat Cricket Club in the [[Ballarat Cricket Association]] competition. This very rare feat consisted of 2 catches, an LBW and 3 bowled.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11789075|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|title=Six of best for Australian club bowler Aled Carey|date=26 January 2017|access-date=27 June 2017}}</ref>
This feat was also achieved by Matt Rowe, aged 17, playing for [[Palmerston North Boys' High School]] 1st XI on 22 March 2023 in a match against [[Rotorua Boys' High School]] in [[Tauranga]], New Zealand. Rowe's first delivery of the 'perfect over' netted a catch in the slips, followed by 4 clean-bowled and the 6th [[Leg before wicket|LBW]]. Rowe finished with bowling figures of 9 for 12 and [[PNBHS]] subsequently chased the total of 26 in 2.1 overs.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-23 |title=Schoolboy completes perfect over |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/486525/schoolboy-completes-perfect-over |access-date=2023-03-22 |website=[[RNZ]] |language=en-nz}}</ref>
Taking two wickets in two consecutive deliveries is occasionally known as a brace, or, more commonly, especially until the next delivery has been made, being on a hat-trick. In Australia, four wickets in four balls is sometimes referred to as a double hat-trick on the basis that there are two ways of compiling the three-in-three sequence (i.e. wickets 1,2 and 3 or wickets 2,3 and 4).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-03-29/proteas-escape-after-malinga-double-hat-trick/2229418|title=Proteas escape after Malinga double hat-trick|date=2007-03-29|website=ABC News|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118406676|title=DOUBLE 'HAT TRICK' TO SCHOOLBOY|date=1953-02-28|work=Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 – 1954)|access-date=2019-01-06|pages=5}}</ref>
==Three dismissals by fielders==
There are very few cases of a fielder or wicket keeper taking a hat-trick of dismissals off consecutive deliveries in first-class cricket, and none in international cricket. The first such instance is the only known hat-trick of stumpings by a wicket-keeper: W. H. Brain for Gloucestershire against Somerset in 1893, all off the bowling of C. L. Townsend. There has never been a first-class wicket-keeping hat-trick that mixes catches and stumpings, but four other wicket-keepers have taken a hat-trick of catches: KR Meherhomji for Railways vs Freelooters at Secunderabad (the only instance outside England) in 1931, GO Dawkes for Derbyshire vs Worcestershire at Kidderminster in 1958,
==See also==
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