List of Test cricket hat-tricks

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 30 July 2011, a hat-trick has been taken 39 times since the first Test match in 1877, most recently by English fast-medium bowler Stuart Broad on 30 July 2011. 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. India was the only country against whom nobody has taken a hat-trick, until 30 July 2011.

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.

England and Australia combined have taken over half of all Test match hat-tricks to date, 23 of 39 (59%). To date the number of hat-tricks by team is; England- 12, Australia- 11, West Indies- 4, Pakistan- 4, New Zealand – 2, India- 2, South Africa- 1, Sri Lanka- 1, Bangladesh- 1, Zimbabwe- 1.

Contents 1 Notable Test hat-tricks 2 List of Test hat-tricks 3 Notes 4 See also 5 References

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 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 (No. 18) & Merv Hughes (No. 19) are the only two bowlers 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.[2]	Fred Spofforth	AUS	ENG	1st	Only	• Vernon Royle (b) • Francis MacKinnon (b) • Tom Emmett (c Tom Horan)	MCG, Melbourne	2 January 1879
2.[3]	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.[4][5]	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.[5]	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.[6]	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.[7]	Jimmy Matthews	AUS	SAF	1st	1st	• Rolland Beaumont (b) • Sid Pegler (lbw) • Tommy Ward (lbw)	Old Trafford, Manchester	28 May 1912
9.[7]	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.[8]	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.[5][9]	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.[10]	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.[8]	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.[11]	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.[12]	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.[8]	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.[13][14]	Wasim Akram	PAK	SRI	1st	3rd	• Romesh Kaluwitharana (c Moin Khan) • Niroshan Bandaratilleke (b) • Pramodya Wickramasinghe (b)	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	6 March 1999
25.[13][15]	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.[16]	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.[17]	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.[19]	Mohammad Sami	PAK	SRI	1st	Final	• Charitha Buddhika (lbw) • Nuwan Zoysa (lbw) • Muttiah Muralitharan (b)	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	8 March 2002
31.[20]	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.[21]	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.[22]	Stuart Broad	ENG	IND	1st	2nd	• Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c James Anderson) • Harbhajan Singh (lbw) • Praveen Kumar (b)	Trent Bridge, Nottinghamshire	30 July 2011

Notes

See also

• List of One Day International cricket hat-tricks
• List of Test cricket triple centuries
• Test cricket hat-trick takers

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.

Reports

• Hat-trick heroes in Test cricket before Wasim Akram, Cricinfo, 29 March 1999. Last accessed 21 March 2006.
• Hat-tricks in Test cricket, Cricinfo, March 22, 2001. Last accessed 21 March 2006.

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