INDIAN CRICKET: November 2011

A hat-trick or hat trick in sport is the achievement of a positive feat three times during a game, or other achievements based on threes. The term was first used in 1858 in cricket to describe HH Stephenson's feat of taking three wickets in three balls. A collection was held for Stephenson, and he was presented with a hat bought with the proceeds. The term was used in print for the first time in 1878.
The term was eventually adopted by many other sports including association football, water polo, and team handball, but didn't become popular in North America until the mid 1940s (in the National Hockey League and then baseball (three strikeouts or hits)).

A hat-trick occurs in cricket when a bowler dismisses three batsmen with consecutive deliveries. The deliveries may be interrupted by an over bowled by another bowler from the other end of the pitch or the other team's innings, but must be three consecutive deliveries by the individual bowler. Only wickets attributed to the bowler count towards a hat-trick; run outs do not count.
Hat-tricks are very rare and as such are treasured by bowlers. In Test cricket history there have been just 39 hat-tricks, the first achieved by Fred Spofforth for Australia against England in 1879. In 1912, Australian Jimmy Matthews achieved the feat twice in one game against South Africa. The only other players to achieve two hat-tricks are Australia's Hugh Trumble, against England in 1902 and 1904, and Pakistan's Wasim Akram, in separate games against Sri Lanka in 1999.India's Harbhajan achieved this feat in Kolkata in 2001.
In One Day International cricket there have been 27 hat-tricks up to 22 August 2011, the first by Jalal-ud-Din for Pakistan against Australia in 1982, and the most recent by Lasith Malinga for Sri Lanka cricket team against Australia on August 22nd, 2011 in the last match of the five-ODI series played in Colombo. With this last hat-trick Lasith Malinga became the first and only bowler to take three hat-tricks in any form of international cricket. Four players have taken at least two One Day International hat-tricks in their careers: Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan and Chaminda Vaas and Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka. (Akram therefore has four international hat-tricks in total).
In Twenty20 International Cricket, Brett Lee of Australia had a hat-trick against Bangladesh in the Super Eight of the Twenty20 World Cup on 16 September 2007 in South Africa. Jacob Oram of New Zealand made a hat-trick against Sri Lanka on 2 September 2009 in Colombo, And Tim Southee, also from New Zealand, made a hat-trick against Pakistan, and ended up with a 5-For at the end of the match^.
Taking two wickets in two consecutive deliveries is occasionally known as a brace, or (more commonly) being on a hat-trick. This is only a run-up to the hat-trick. If a hat-trick is not achieved, it is not called a brace.
Four wickets in four balls is referred to in cricket literature and record books as four in four but the term double hat-trick has also been used in the media, as it will contain two different, overlapping sets of three consecutively dismissed batsmen. It has occurred only once in international one-day cricket, in the 2007 World Cup, when Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga managed the feat against South Africa by dismissing Shaun Pollock, Andrew Hall, Jacques Kallis and Makhaya Ntini, though it has occurred on other occasions in first-class cricket. Kevan James of 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. Chaminda Vaas of Sri Lanka is one of the two bowlers, the other one being Wasim Akram of Pakistan against Bangladesh as well to achieve a hat-trick in the first three balls of any form of international cricket. Chaminda Vass did so in their pool B ODI world cup qualifier against Bangladhesh on 14 February 2003 at City Oval, Pietermaritzburg. He took his fourth wicket with the fifth ball of the same over and missed the double-hat-trick.
Albert Trott and Joginder Rao are the only two bowlers credited with two hat-tricks in the same innings in first class cricket. One of Trott's two hat-tricks, for Middlesex against Somerset at Lords in 1907, was a four in four

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While all hat-tricks are rare and prized, some examples are particularly extraordinary. On 2 December 1988, Merv Hughes, playing for Australia, dismissing Curtly Ambrose with the last ball of his penultimate over and Patrick Patterson with the first ball of his next over, wrapping up the West Indies first innings. When Hughes returned to bowl in the West Indies second innings, he trapped Gordon Greenidge lbw with his first ball, completing a hat-trick over two different innings and becoming the only player in Test cricket history to achieve the three wickets of a hat-trick in three different overs.
In 1844, underarm bowler William Clark, playing for "England" against Kent, achieved a hat-trick spread over two innings, dismissing Kent batsman John Fagge twice within the hat-trick. Fagge batted at number 11 in the first innings and at number 3 in the second. This event is believed to be unique in first-class cricket.
The most involved hat-trick was perhaps when Melbourne club cricketer Stephen Hickman, playing for Power House, achieved a hat-trick spread over three overs, two days, two innings, involved the same batsman twice, and was observed by the same non striker, with the hat-trick ball being bowled from the opposite end to the first two. In the Mercantile Cricket Association C Grade semi final at Fawkner Park South Yarra in Melbourne, Gunbower United Cricket Club were 8 for 109 when Hickman came on to bowl his off spin. He took a wicket with the last ball of his third over and then bowled number 11 batsman Richard Higgins with the first ball of his next over to complete the Gunbower innings, leaving Chris Taylor the not out batsman. Power House scored 361 putting the game out of reach of Gunbower. In the second innings opener Taylor was joined by Higgins at the fall of the fourth wicket as Hickman returned to the attack. With his first ball, observed by an incredulous Taylor at the non-strikers end, he clean bowled Higgins leaving Higgins with a pair of golden ducks.
One of the most unlikely of hat-tricks occurred in 2009. Representing City Eagles in Christchurch, New Zealand, David Crocker (a former wicket-keeper batsman turned surprised bowler) took 3 wickets to secure a hat-trick with the first 3 deliveries he bowled in Suburban Cricket. It is unknown if this has occurred before with the very first deliveries a bowler would bowl in a competition claiming wickets. David also scored 118 against the same team.
At least two triple hat-tricks have been achieved. The first was by Scott Babot of Wainuiomata Cricket Club playing in the Senior 3 competition in New Zealand in 2008. It consisted of five wickets in five balls, across two innings and separated by seven days, as the match took place on consecutive Saturdays. The second was in an Ireland club U13 youth game in 2011, achieved by David Delany of Clontarf Cricket Club playing in an All-Ireland final against Bready Cricket Club. Bready needed 19 runs to win with 6 wickets in hand, when Delany took five wickets in five balls, with all five batsmen being dismissed bowled. Clontarf won the game.

HAT-TRICK IN TEST MATCHES:

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 three 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), Jimmy Matthews (Australian leg spinner) 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 pace bowler Damien Fleming in 1994 (No. 20).
T J Matthews (both hat-tricks), Dominic Cork, Mohammed Sami and Jermaine Lawson all achieved their hat-tricks without fielding assistance
No player has taken four wickets in four balls (although this feat has been accomplished in one day cricket, by Lasith Malinga 28/3/2007 for Sri Lanka vs South Africa), 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.
Courtney Walsh & Merv Hughes are the only two players from opposing teams to have taken hat-tricks in the same series.
Merv Hughes (No. 19) is the only bowler to have taken a Test hat-trick with each ball in a different over.
Peter Siddle (No. 38) , is the first bowler to take a hat-trick on his birthday, turning 26 on Thursday 25 November 2010.
All Test hat-tricks by Pakistani bowlers (Wasim Akram, Abdul Razzaq, Mohammad Sami) have been against Sri Lanka.
Stuart Broad was involved in 2 consecutive hat-tricks. He was the 3rd victim of the 38th and the bowler who took the 39th.

List of Test hat-tricks

No.	Bowler	For	Against	Inn.	Test	Dismissals	At	Date
1.	Fred Spofforth	AUS	ENG	1st	Only	• Vernon Royle (b) • Francis MacKinnon (b) • Tom Emmett (c Tom Horan)	MCG, Melbourne	2 January 1879
2.	Billy Bates	ENG	AUS	1st	2nd	• Percy McDonnell (b) • George Giffen (c and b) • George Bonnor (c Walter Read)	MCG, Melbourne	20 January 1883
3.	Johnny Briggs	ENG	AUS	2nd	2nd	• Walter Giffen (b) • Jack Blackham (lbw) • Sydney Callaway (c W. G. Grace)	SCG, Sydney	2 February 1892
4.	George Lohmann	ENG	SAF	2nd	1st	• Frederick Cook (b) • Bonnor Middleton (b) • Joseph Willoughby (c Tom Hayward)	St. George's Park, Port Elizabeth	14 February 1896
5.	Jack Hearne	ENG	AUS	2nd	3rd	• Clem Hill (b) • Syd Gregory (c Archie MacLaren) • Monty Noble (c Ranjitsinhji)	Headingley, Leeds	30 June 1899
6.	Hugh Trumble	AUS	ENG	2nd	2nd	• John Gunn (c Sammy Jones) • Arthur Jones (c Joe Darling) • Sydney Barnes (c and b)	MCG, Melbourne	4 January 1902
7.	Hugh Trumble	AUS	ENG	2nd	5th	• Bernard Bosanquet (c Algy Gehrs) • Plum Warner (c and b) • Dick Lilley (lbw)	MCG, Melbourne	8 March 1904
8.	Jimmy Matthews	AUS	SAF	1st	1st	• Rolland Beaumont (b) • Sid Pegler (lbw) • Tommy Ward (lbw)	Old Trafford, Manchester	28 May 1912
9.	Jimmy Matthews	AUS	SAF	2nd	1st	• Herbie Taylor (b) • Reggie Schwarz (c and b) • Tommy Ward (c and b)	Old Trafford, Manchester	28 May 1912
10.	Maurice Allom	ENG	NZL	1st	1st	• Tom Lowry (lbw) • Ken James (c Tich Cornford) • Ted Badcock (b)	Lancaster Park, Christchurch	10 January 1930
11.	Tom Goddard	ENG	SAF	1st	1st	• Dudley Nourse (c and b) • Norman Gordon (st Leslie Ames) • Billy Wade (b)	Old Wanderers, Johannesburg	26 December 1938
12.	Peter Loader	ENG	WI	1st	4th	• John Goddard (b) • Sonny Ramadhin (c Fred Trueman) • Roy Gilchrist (b)	Headingley, Leeds	25 July 1957
13.	Lindsay Kline	AUS	SAF	2nd	2nd	• Eddie Fuller (c Richie Benaud) • Hugh Tayfield (lbw) • Neil Adcock (c Bob Simpson)	Newlands, Cape Town	3 January 1958
14.	Wes Hall	WI	PAK	1st	3rd	• Mushtaq Mohammed (lbw) • Fazal Mahmood (c Garfield Sobers) • Nasim-ul-Ghani (b)	Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore	29 March 1959
15.	Geoffrey Griffin	SAF	ENG	1st	2nd	• M. J. K. Smith (c John Waite) • Peter Walker (b) • Fred Trueman (b)	Lord's, London	24 June 1960
16.	Lance Gibbs	WI	AUS	1st	4th	• Ken Mackay (lbw) • Wally Grout (c Garfield Sobers) • Frank Misson (b)	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	30 January 1961
17^.	Peter Petherick	NZL	PAK	1st	1st	• Javed Miandad (c Richard Hadlee) • Wasim Raja (c and b) • Intikhab Alam (c Geoff Howarth)	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	9 October 1976
18.	Courtney Walsh	WI	AUS	1st & 2nd	1st	• Tony Dodemaide (c Viv Richards) • Mike Veletta (c Carl Hooper) • Graeme Wood (lbw)	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane	18 November, 20 November 1988
19.	Merv Hughes	AUS	WI	1st & 2nd	2nd	• Curtly Ambrose (c Ian Healy) • Patrick Patterson (c Tony Dodemaide) • Gordon Greenidge (lbw)	WACA, Perth	3 December, 4 December 1988
20.	Damien Fleming	AUS	PAK	2nd	2nd	• Aamer Malik (c Michael Bevan) • Inzamam-ul-Haq (lbw) • Saleem Malik (c Ian Healy)	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi	9 October 1994
21.	Shane Warne	AUS	ENG	2nd	2nd	• Phil DeFreitas (lbw) • Darren Gough (c Ian Healy) • Devon Malcolm (c David Boon)	MCG, Melbourne	29 December 1994
22.	Dominic Cork	ENG	WI	2nd	4th	• Richie Richardson (b) • Junior Murray (lbw) • Carl Hooper (lbw)	Old Trafford, Manchester	30 July 1995
23.	Darren Gough	ENG	AUS	1st	5th	• Ian Healy (c Warren Hegg) • Stuart MacGill (b) • Colin Miller (b)	SCG, Sydney	2 January 1999
24.	Wasim Akram	PAK	SRI	1st	3rd	• Romesh Kaluwitharana (c Moin Khan) • Niroshan Bandaratilleke (b) • Pramodya Wickramasinghe (b)	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	6 March 1999
25.	Wasim Akram	PAK	SRI	2nd	Final	• Avishka Gunawardene (c Shahid Afridi) • Chaminda Vaas (b) • Mahela Jayawardene (c Wajahatullah Wasti)	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	14 March 1999
26.	Nuwan Zoysa	SRI	ZIM	1st	2nd	• Trevor Gripper (lbw) • Murray Goodwin (c Romesh Kaluwitharana) • Neil Johnson (lbw)	Harare Sports Club, Harare	26 November 1999
27.	Abdul Razzaq	PAK	SRI	1st	2nd	• Romesh Kaluwitharana (c Moin Khan) • Rangana Herath (lbw) • Ravi Pushpakumara (lbw)	Galle International Stadium, Galle	21 June 2000
28.	Glenn McGrath	AUS	WI	1st	2nd	• Sherwin Campbell (c Ricky Ponting) • Brian Lara (c Stuart MacGill) • Jimmy Adams (c Justin Langer)	WACA, Perth	1 December 2000
29.^[18]	Harbhajan Singh	IND	AUS	1st	2nd	• Ricky Ponting (lbw) • Adam Gilchrist (lbw) • Shane Warne (c Sadagoppan Ramesh)	Eden Gardens, Calcutta	11 March 2001
30.	Mohammad Sami	PAK	SRI	1st	Final	• Charitha Buddhika (lbw) • Nuwan Zoysa (lbw) • Muttiah Muralitharan (b)	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	8 March 2002
31.	Jermaine Lawson	WI	AUS	1st & 2nd	3rd	• Brett Lee (b) • Stuart MacGill (b) • Justin Langer (lbw)	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown	2 May, 5 May 2003
32.	Alok Kapali	BAN	PAK	1st	2nd	• Shabbir Ahmed (c Mashrafe Mortaza) • Danish Kaneria (lbw) • Umar Gul (lbw)	Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar	29 August 2003
33.	Andy Blignaut	ZIM	BAN	2nd	1st	• Hannan Sarkar (lbw) • Mohammad Ashraful (c sub (Travis Friend)) • Mushfiqur Rahman (c Tatenda Taibu)	Harare Sports Club, Harare	22 February 2004
34.	Matthew Hoggard	ENG	WI	2nd	3rd	• Ramnaresh Sarwan (c Ashley Giles) • Shivnarine Chanderpaul (lbw) • Ryan Hinds (c Andrew Flintoff)	Kensington Oval, Barbados	3 April 2004
35.	James Franklin	NZL	BAN	1st	1st	• Manjural Islam Rana (c Brendon McCullum) • Mohammad Rafique (c Scott Styris) • Tapash Baisya (b)	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	20 October 2004
36.	Irfan Pathan	IND	PAK	1st	3rd	• Salman Butt (c Rahul Dravid) • Younis Khan (lbw) • Mohammad Yousuf (b)	National Stadium, Karachi	29 January 2006
37.	Ryan Sidebottom	ENG	NZL	2nd	1st	• Stephen Fleming (c Alastair Cook) • Mathew Sinclair (c Alastair Cook) • Jacob Oram (lbw)	Seddon Park, Hamilton	8 March 2008
38.	Peter Siddle	AUS	ENG	1st	1st	• Alastair Cook (c Shane Watson) • Matthew Prior (b) • Stuart Broad (lbw)	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane	25 November 2010
39.	Stuart Broad	ENG	IND	1st	2nd	• Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c James Anderson) • Harbhajan Singh (lbw) • Praveen Kumar (b)	Trent Bridge, Nottinghamshire	30 July 2011

HAT-TRICK IN ODI :

It is a relatively rare event in One Day International (ODI) cricket with only 30 occurrences in over 3,000 matches since the first ODI, between Australia and England on 5 January 1971. The first ODI hat-trick was taken by Jalal-ud-Din of Pakistan, playing against Australia at Niaz Stadium in September 1982 ; the most recent was taken by Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka, playing against Australia on 22 August 2011.

Pakistani bowlers hold the record for the most ODI hat-tricks taken by a team with eight. The only bowler to have taken three career hat-tricks is Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka, three other bowlers (Wasim Akram, Saqlain Mushtaq and Chaminda Vaas) have taken two hat-tricks. Hat-tricks are dominated by fast bowlers with Pakistan's Saqlain and Bangladesh's Razzaq the only two spinners to have taken an ODI hat-trick. Chaminda Vaas of Sri Lankan cricket team became the only bowler to claim a hat-trick in the first three balls of any form of international cricket when he took the first three wickets off the opening three balls of their match against Bangladesh during 2003 Cricket World Cup. Seven hat-tricks have occurred in World Cup matches, the most important form of ODI cricket. The last was during the 2011 World Cup when Malinga took a hat-trick against Kenya to become the only bolwer to claim two World Cup hat-tricks.

LIST OF PLAYERS :

№	ODI №	Bowler	For	Against	Wickets	Venue	Date
1.	158	Jalal-ud-Din	Pakistan	Australia	• Rod Marsh (b) • Bruce Yardley (c Wasim Bari) • Geoff Lawson (b)	Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad	20 September 1982
2.	359	Bruce Reid	Australia	New Zealand	• Bruce Blair (c Greg Matthews) • Ervin McSweeney (c Allan Border) • Stu Gillespie (b)	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	29 January 1986
3.	474	Chetan Sharma	India	New Zealand	• Ken Rutherford (b) • Ian Smith (b) • Ewen Chatfield (b)	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur	31 October 1987*
4.	570	Wasim Akram	Pakistan	West Indies	• Jeff Dujon (b) • Malcolm Marshall (b) • Curtly Ambrose (b)	Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah	14 October 1989
5.	631	Wasim Akram	Pakistan	Australia	• Merv Hughes (b) • Carl Rackemann (b) • Terry Alderman (b)	Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah	4 May 1990
6.	661	Kapil Dev	India	Sri Lanka	• Roshan Mahanama (c Kiran More) • Rumesh Ratnayake (lbw) • Sanath Jayasuriya (c Sanjay Manjrekar)	Eden Gardens, Calcutta	4 January 1991
7.	685	Aaqib Javed	Pakistan	India	• Ravi Shastri (lbw) • Mohammad Azharuddin (lbw) • Sachin Tendulkar (lbw)	Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah	25 October 1991
8.	896	Danny Morrison	New Zealand	India	• Kapil Dev (b) • Salil Ankola (b) • Nayan Mongia (b)	McLean Park, Napier	25 March 1994
9.	966	Waqar Younis	Pakistan	New Zealand	• Chris Harris (b) • Chris Pringle (b) • Richard de Groen (b)	Buffalo Park, East London	19 December 1994
10.	1,113	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan	Zimbabwe	• Grant Flower (c Moin Khan) • John Rennie (c Moin Khan) • Andy Whittall (c Saleem Malik)	Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar	3 November 1996
11.	1,158	Eddo Brandes	Zimbabwe	England	• Nick Knight (c Andy Flower) • John Crawley (lbw) • Nasser Hussain (c Andy Flower)	Harare Sports Club, Harare	3 January 1997
12.	1,164^[15]	Anthony Stuart	Australia	Pakistan	• Ijaz Ahmed (c Ian Healy) • Mohammad Wasim (c Ian Healy) • Moin Khan (c Mark Taylor)	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	16 January 1997
13.	1,479	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan	Zimbabwe	• Henry Olonga (st Moin Khan) • Adam Huckle (st Moin Khan) • Pommie Mbangwa (lbw)	The Oval, London	11 June 1999*
14.	1,776	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka	Zimbabwe	• Stuart Carlisle (c Suresh Perera) • Craig Wishart (lbw) • Tatenda Taibu (lbw)	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo	8 December 2001
15.	1,880	Mohammad Sami	Pakistan	West Indies	• Ridley Jacobs (lbw) • Corey Collymore (b) • Cameron Cuffy (b)	Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah	15 February 2002
16.	1,950	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka	Bangladesh	• Hannan Sarkar (b) • Mohammad Ashraful (c and b) • Ehsanul Haque (c Mahela Jayawardene)	Pietermaritzburg Oval, Pietermaritzburg	14 February 2003*
17.	1,990	Brett Lee	Australia	Kenya	• Kennedy Otieno (b) • Brijal Patel (c Ricky Ponting) • David Obuya (b)	Kingsmead, Durban	15 March 2003*
18.	2,026	James Anderson	England	Pakistan	• Abdul Razzaq (c Marcus Trescothick) • Shoaib Akhtar (c Chris Read) • Mohammad Sami (b)	The Oval, London	20 June 2003
19.	2,164	Steve Harmison	England	India	• Mohammad Kaif (c Geraint Jones) • Lakshmipathy Balaji (c Andrew Flintoff) • Ashish Nehra (c and b)	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	1 September 2004
20.	2,243	Charl Langeveldt	South Africa	West Indies	• Ian Bradshaw (b) • Daren Powell (b) • Corey Collymore (lbw)	Kensington Oval, Barbados	11 May 2005
21.	2,394	Shahadat Hossain	Bangladesh	Zimbabwe	• Tafadzwa Mufambisi (c Khaled Mashud) • Elton Chigumbura (lbw) • Tawanda Mupariwa (c Khaled Mashud)	Harare Sports Club, Harare	2 August 2006
22.	2,432	Jerome Taylor	West Indies	Australia	• Michael Hussey (b) • Brett Lee (lbw) • Brad Hogg (b)	Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai	18 October 2006
23.	2,474	Shane Bond	New Zealand	Australia	• Cameron White (c Craig McMillan) • Andrew Symonds (c Brendon McCullum) • Nathan Bracken (b)	Bellerive Oval, Hobart	14 January 2007
24.	2,556	Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka	South Africa	• Shaun Pollock (b) • Andrew Hall (c Upul Tharanga) • Jacques Kallis (c Kumar Sangakkara) • Makhaya Ntini (b)	Providence Stadium, Georgetown	28 March 2007*
25.	2,833	Andrew Flintoff	England	West Indies	• Denesh Ramdin (b) • Ravi Rampaul (lbw) • Sulieman Benn (b)	Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia	3 April 2009
26.	2,999	Farveez Maharoof	Sri Lanka	India	• Ravindra Jadeja (lbw) • Praveen Kumar (b) • Zaheer Khan (c Kumar Sangakkara)	Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla	22 June 2010
27.	3,073	Abdur Razzak	Bangladesh	Zimbabwe	• Prosper Utseya (c Naeem Islam) • Ray Price (lbw) • Christopher Mpofu (lbw)	Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	3 December 2010
28.	3,112	Kemar Roach	West Indies	Netherlands	• Pieter Seelaar (lbw) • Bernard Loots (lbw) • Berend Westdijk (b)	Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi	28 February 2011*
29.	3,113	Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka	Kenya	• Tanmay Mishra (lbw) • Peter Ongondo (b) • Shem Ngoche (b)	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	1 March 2011*
30.	3,184	Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka	Australia	• Mitchell Johnson (b) • John Hastings (lbw) • Xavier Doherty (b)	R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	22 August 2011

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HAT-TRICK..........

List of Test hat-tricks