List of Test cricket hat-tricks and some of the hat-trick trivia

In the sport of cricket, a hat-trick is an occasion where a bowler takes three wickets in consecutive deliveries. As of 5 August 2016, this rare feat has been achieved 42 times in over two thousand Test matches, the form of the sport in which national representative teams compete in matches of up to five days' duration. 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. The most recent bowler to achieve the feat was Sri Lankan spin bowler Rangana Herath against Australia on 5 August 2016. At least one bowler from each of the ten nations that play Test cricket has taken a Test hat-trick

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, both taken on 28 May 1912. He completed both hat-tricks by dismissing South Africa's Tommy Ward.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 Englishfast bowler Stuart Broad. 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.Geoff Griffin took the fewest total Test wickets of any player who recorded a hat-trick, taking only eight wickets in his entire Test career.

During the match in which he took his hat-trick, Griffin was repeatedly called for throwing by the umpires and never bowled again in a Test match.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.

Australian Merv Hughes is the only bowler to take a hatrick where the wickets fell over three overs. He took a wicket with the final ball of an over. With the first ball of the next over he took the final wicket of the West Indies innings. He then removed the opener Gordon Greenidge with the first ball of the West Indies second innings.

In the five-match series between a Rest of the World XI and 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).These matches were considered to be Tests at the time, but that status was later removed.

List of Test cricket hat-tricks

No.	Bowler	For	Against	Inn.	Test	Dismissals	Venue	Date	Ref.
1	Fred Spofforth	Australia	England	1	1/1	Vernon Royle (b) Francis MacKinnon (b) Tom Emmett (c Tom Horan)	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	2 January 1879
2	Billy Bates	England	Australia	1	2/3	Percy McDonnell (b) George Giffen (c and b) George Bonnor (c Walter Read)	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	20 January 1883
3	Johnny Briggs	England	Australia	2	2/3	Walter Giffen (b) Jack Blackham (lbw) Sydney Callaway (c W. G. Grace)	Sydney Cricket Ground,Sydney	2 February 1892
4	George Lohmann	England	South Africa	2	1/3	Frederick Cook (b) Bonnor Middleton (b) Joseph Willoughby (cTom Hayward)	St. George's Park, Port Elizabeth	14 February 1896
5	Jack Hearne	England	Australia	2	3/5	Clem Hill (b) Syd Gregory (c Archie MacLaren) Monty Noble (cRanjitsinhji)	Headingley, Leeds	30 June 1899
6	Hugh Trumble	Australia	England	2	2/5	John Gunn (c Sammy Jones) Arthur Jones (c Joe Darling) Sydney Barnes (c and b)	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	4 January 1902
7	Hugh Trumble	Australia	England	2	5/5	Bernard Bosanquet (cAlgy Gehrs) Plum Warner (c and b) Dick Lilley (lbw)	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	8 March 1904
8	Jimmy Matthews	Australia	South Africa	1	1/3	Rolland Beaumont (b) Sid Pegler (lbw) Tommy Ward (lbw)	Old Trafford,Manchester	28 May 1912
9	Jimmy Matthews	Australia	South Africa	2	1/3	Herbie Taylor (b) Reggie Schwarz (c and b) Tommy Ward (c and b)	Old Trafford,Manchester	28 May 1912
10	Maurice Allom	England	New Zealand	1	1/4	Tom Lowry (lbw) Ken James (c Tich Cornford) Ted Badcock (b)	Lancaster Park,Christchurch	10 January 1930
11	Tom Goddard	England	South Africa	1	1/5	Dudley Nourse (c and b) Norman Gordon (stLeslie Ames) Billy Wade (b)	Old Wanderers,Johannesburg	26 December 1938
12	Peter Loader	England	West Indies	1	4/5	John Goddard (b) Sonny Ramadhin (c Fred Trueman) Roy Gilchrist (b)	Headingley, Leeds	25 July 1957
13	Lindsay Kline	Australia	South Africa	2	2/5	Eddie Fuller (c Richie Benaud) Hugh Tayfield (lbw) Neil Adcock (c Bob Simpson)	Newlands, Cape Town	3 January 1958
14	Wes Hall	West Indies	Pakistan	1	3/3	Mushtaq Mohammed(lbw) Fazal Mahmood (cGarfield Sobers) Nasim-ul-Ghani (b)	Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore	29 March 1959
15	Geoff Griffin	South Africa	England	1	2/5	M. J. K. Smith (c John Waite) Peter Walker (b) Fred Trueman (b)	Lord's, London	24 June 1960
16	Lance Gibbs	West Indies	Australia	1	4/5	Ken Mackay (lbw) Wally Grout (c Garfield Sobers) Frank Misson (b)	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	30 January 1961
17	Peter Petherick	New Zealand	Pakistan	1	1/3	Javed Miandad (cRichard Hadlee) Wasim Raja (c and b) Intikhab Alam (c Geoff Howarth)	Gaddafi Stadium,Lahore	9 October 1976
18	Courtney Walsh	West Indies	Australia	1 & 2	1/5	Tony Dodemaide (c Viv Richards) Mike Veletta (c Carl Hooper) Graeme Wood (lbw)	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane	18–20 November 1988
19	Merv Hughes	Australia	West Indies	1 & 2	2/5	Curtly Ambrose (c Ian Healy) Patrick Patterson (c Tony Dodemaide) Gordon Greenidge (lbw)	WACA, Perth	3–4 December 1988
20	Damien Fleming	Australia	Pakistan	2	2/3	Aamer Malik (c Michael Bevan) Inzamam-ul-Haq (lbw) Saleem Malik (c Ian Healy)	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi	9 October 1994
21	Shane Warne	Australia	England	2	2/5	Phil DeFreitas (lbw) Darren Gough (c Ian Healy) Devon Malcolm (c David Boon)	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	29 December 1994
22	Dominic Cork	England	West Indies	2	4/6	Richie Richardson (b) Junior Murray (lbw) Carl Hooper (lbw)	Old Trafford,Manchester	30 July 1995
23	Darren Gough	England	Australia	1	5/5	Ian Healy (c Warren Hegg) Stuart MacGill (b) Colin Miller (b)	Sydney Cricket Ground,Sydney	2 January 1999
24	Wasim Akram	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	1	3/4	Romesh Kaluwitharana(c Moin Khan) Niroshan Bandaratilleke(b) Pramodya Wickramasinghe (b)	Gaddafi Stadium,Lahore	6 March 1999
25	Wasim Akram	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	2	4/4	Avishka Gunawardene (cShahid Afridi) Chaminda Vaas (b) Mahela Jayawardene (cWajahatullah Wasti)	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	14 March 1999
26	Nuwan Zoysa	Sri Lanka	Zimbabwe	1	2/3	Trevor Gripper (lbw) Murray Goodwin (cRomesh Kaluwitharana) Neil Johnson (lbw)	Harare Sports Club,Harare	26 November 1999
27	Abdul Razzaq	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	1	2/3	Romesh Kaluwitharana(c Moin Khan) Rangana Herath (lbw) Ravi Pushpakumara(lbw)	Galle International Stadium, Galle	21 June 2000
28	Glenn McGrath	Australia	West Indies	1	2/5	Sherwin Campbell (cRicky Ponting) Brian Lara (c Stuart MacGill) Jimmy Adams (c Justin Langer)	WACA, Perth	1 December 2000
29	Harbhajan Singh	India	Australia	1	2/3	Ricky Ponting (lbw) Adam Gilchrist (lbw) Shane Warne (cSadagoppan Ramesh)	Eden Gardens, Calcutta	11 March 2001
30	Mohammad Sami	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	1	3/3	Charitha Buddhika (lbw) Nuwan Zoysa (lbw) Muttiah Muralitharan (b)	Gaddafi Stadium,Lahore	8 March 2002
31	Jermaine Lawson	West Indies	Australia	1 & 2	3/4	Brett Lee (b) Stuart MacGill (b) Justin Langer (lbw)	Kensington Oval,Bridgetown	2–5 May 2003
32	Alok Kapali	Bangladesh	Pakistan	1	2/3	Shabbir Ahmed (cMashrafe Mortaza) Danish Kaneria (lbw) Umar Gul (lbw)	Arbab Niaz Stadium,Peshawar	29 August 2003
33	Andy Blignaut	Zimbabwe	Bangladesh	2	1/2	Hannan Sarkar (lbw) Mohammad Ashraful (csub (Travis Friend)) Mushfiqur Rahman (cTatenda Taibu)	Harare Sports Club,Harare	22 February 2004
34	Matthew Hoggard	England	West Indies	2	3/4	Ramnaresh Sarwan (cAshley Giles) Shivnarine Chanderpaul(lbw) Ryan Hinds (c Andrew Flintoff)	Kensington Oval,Barbados	3 April 2004
35	James Franklin	New Zealand	Bangladesh	1	1/2	Manjural Islam Rana (cBrendon McCullum) Mohammad Rafique (cScott Styris) Tapash Baisya (b)	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	20 October 2004
36	Irfan Pathan	India	Pakistan	1	3/3	Salman Butt (c Rahul Dravid) Younis Khan (lbw) Mohammad Yousuf (b)	National Stadium, Karachi	29 January 2006
37	Ryan Sidebottom	England	New Zealand	2	1 /3	Stephen Fleming (cAlastair Cook) Mathew Sinclair (cAlastair Cook) Jacob Oram (lbw)	Seddon Park, Hamilton	8 March 2008
38	Peter Siddle	Australia	England	1	1/5	Alastair Cook (c Shane Watson) Matt Prior (b) Stuart Broad (lbw)	Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane	25 November 2010
39	Stuart Broad	England	India	1	2/4	Mahendra Singh Dhoni(c James Anderson) Harbhajan Singh (lbw) Praveen Kumar (b)	Trent Bridge,Nottinghamshire	30 July 2011
40	Sohag Gazi	Bangladesh	New Zealand	2	1/2	Corey Anderson (lbw) BJ Watling (c Mushfiqur Rahim) Doug Bracewell (cShakib Al Hasan)	Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium,Chittagong	13 October 2013
41	Stuart Broad	England	Sri Lanka	1	2/2	Kumar Sangakkara (cIan Bell) Dinesh Chandimal (cAlastair Cook) Shaminda Eranga (cMatt Prior)	Headingley, Leeds	20 June 2014
42	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka	Australia	1	2/3	Adam Voges (c Dimuth Karunaratne) Peter Nevill (lbw) Mitchell Starc (lbw)	Galle International Stadium, Galle	5 August 2016

England and Australia combined have taken over half of all Test match hat-tricks to date, 24 of 42 (58.53%)

Test hat-tricks by team

Team	Hat-tricks
England	13
Australia	11
Pakistan	4
West Indies	4
Bangladesh	2
India	2
Sri Lanka	2
New Zealand	2
South Africa	1
Zimbabwe	1

Source : en.wikipedia.org

Below are some of the hat-trick trivia:

Harbhajan Singh, Darren Gough, Broad and Nuwan Zoysa are the only players to have taken a hat-trick in Tests and have been victims of a bowler’s hat-trick too.

Most number of hat-tricks in Tests have been taken by England (13) and the most number of hat-tricks taken against a team also is by England (8).

Damien Fleming, Peter Petherick and Maurice Allom took a hat-trick on their Test debut.

The most number of hat-tricks taken in a year is 1999 (4) followed by 2004 (3).

Pakistan have taken four hat-tricks and all of them have come against Sri Lanka.

The longest hat-trick is by Merv Hughes spread across two innings against the West Indies at WACA in 1988-89. His hat-trick was spread over three overs.

Irfan Pathan has taken a hat-trick in the first over of a Test and Zoysa took a hat-trick during the first three balls of the Test.

Courtney Walsh was the first to take hat-trick in split innings at Gabba, Brisbane against Australia in 1988-89, a feat achieved by Hughes of Australia in the very next Test of the series at WACA. Till date, such a feat has been repeated only by Geoff Lawson of Australia.

Tommy Ward was involved in both hat-tricks of Jimmy Matthews and on the same day. So, Matthews is also the only bowler to have taken a hat-trick in the same Test and on the same day, and that came against South Africa in 1912.

Mohammad Sami and Wasim Akram are the only ones to have a Test and a One-Day International (ODI) hat-trick. Akram is the only one to have achieved hat-tricks twice in both formats.

Hugh Trumble and Patherick’s hat-tricks involved catches in all three dismissals with one of them being caught & bowled. The next one to have done that is Broad in the ongoing Test match against Sri Lanka at Headingley.

Matthews’ hat-trick against South Africa in 1912 in the first innings didn’t involve the fielder, as it included one bowled and two lbws. This was next achieved by Dominic Cork with one bowled and two lbws in the second innings against the West Indies at Lord’s in 1995. Others in this list include; Lawson and Sami.

Sohag Gazi is the only bowler to take a hat-trick and score a century in the same Test.