List of Test cricket hat-tricks

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England cricketer Stuart Broad took hat-tricks against India at Trent Bridge in 2011, and against Sri Lanka at Headingley in 2014.

In cricket, a hat-trick occurs when a bowler takes a wicket with each of three consecutive deliveries. Although hat-tricks can carry over between innings, meaning a batter can be dismissed twice as part of the same hat-trick, they do not carry over between matches. As of January 2025, this feat has only been achieved 48 times, by 44 different bowlers, in more than 2,000 men's Test matches,[1] 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 Australia pace bowler Fred Spofforth, nicknamed "The Demon Bowler",[2] who dismissed three England batters with consecutive deliveries at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The most recent Test hat-trick was taken by Noman Ali in January 2025.

This article relates to men's cricket only. There have been three hat-tricks in women's Test cricket.

Notable Test hat-tricks

Bowlers with multiple 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, both taken on 28 May 1912. He completed both hat-tricks by dismissing South Africa's Tommy Ward.[3]

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), Pakistan fast bowler Wasim Akram (just over a week apart, in consecutive matches between the same teams) and England fast bowler Stuart Broad.

Test hat-tricks spread over two innings

Australian Merv Hughes is the only bowler to take a hat-trick where the wickets fell over three overs. This was at WACA, Perth in 1988. He took a wicket (Curtly Ambrose) with the final ball of an over. With the first ball of his next over he took the final wicket of the West Indies innings (Patrick Patterson). He then removed the opener Gordon Greenidge with the first ball of the West Indies second innings.[4] 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.[5]

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. Walsh's, at the Gabba in 1988, was unusual since, like Hughes' (which was in the very next Test in the series), other wickets fell between the beginning and end of the hat-trick. After dismissing Dodemaide to finish off Australia's first innings, Walsh did not open the bowling in the Australian second innings, and in fact did not bowl until Australia had already lost two wickets and were 65 for 2: then with his first two deliveries he dismissed Wood and Veletta. Lawson's hat trick was at the Kensington Oval in 2003. He removed tail-enders Lee and MacGill in successive deliveries before Australia declared their first innings (at 605/9), and then took the wicket of Langer with the first delivery of Australia's second innings.[6]

Other notable Test hat-tricks

  • 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.[7]
  • 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.[7]
  • Australian Peter Siddle is the only bowler to take a hat-trick on his birthday.[8]
  • Bangladeshi off spinner Sohag Gazi is the only male player to score a century and take a hat-trick in the same Test match.[9]
  • Sri Lankan seamer Nuwan Zoysa became the first player in the history to take a hat-trick off the first three balls of a Test match. He achieved this against Zimbabwe at Harare in November 1999, dismissing Trevor Gripper, Murray Goodwin and Neil Johnson.[10] Indian pacer Irfan Pathan is the second bowler to take a hat-trick in the first over of a Test match, against Pakistan in 2006.[11]

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).[12] These matches were considered to be Tests at the time, but that status was later removed.[13]

Test hat-tricks

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Key
Symbol Meaning
Hat-trick taken in debut match
Bowler The name of the bowler
For The team for which the bowler was playing
Against The team against which the bowler was playing
Inn. The innings (first or second) in which the hat-trick was achieved
Test The number of the Test within the overall series between the two teams
Dismissals The three players dismissed by the bowler
Venue The venue where the hat-trick was achieved
Date The date on which the hat-trick was achieved
Ref. Reference
List of Test cricket hat-tricks
No. Bowler For Against Inn. Test Dismissals Venue Date Ref.
1 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 1/1 Template:Flagicon MCG, Melbourne 2 January 1879 [14]
2 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/3 Template:Flagicon MCG, Melbourne 20 January 1883 [15]
3 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 2/3 Template:Flagicon Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 2 February 1892 [16]
4 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 1/3 Template:Flagicon St. George's Park, Port Elizabeth 14 February 1896 [17]
5 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 3/5 Template:Flagicon Headingley, Leeds 30 June 1899 [18]
6 Template:Sortname (1/2) Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 2/5 Template:Flagicon MCG, Melbourne 4 January 1902 [19]
7 Template:Sortname (2/2) Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 5/5 Template:Flagicon MCG, Melbourne 8 March 1904 [20]
8 Template:Sortname (1/2) Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 1/3 Template:Flagicon Old Trafford, Manchester 28 May 1912 [21]
9 Template:Sortname (2/2) Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 1/3 Template:Flagicon Old Trafford, Manchester 28 May 1912 [21]
10 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 1/4 Template:Flagicon Lancaster Park, Christchurch 10 January 1930 [22]
11 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 1/5 Template:Flagicon Old Wanderers, Johannesburg 26 December 1938 [23]
12 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 4/5 Template:Flagicon Headingley, Leeds 25 July 1957 [24]
13 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 2/5 Template:Flagicon Newlands, Cape Town 3 January 1958 [25]
14 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 3/3 Template:Flagicon Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore 29 March 1959 [26]
15 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/5 Template:Flagicon Lord's, London 24 June 1960 [27]
16 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 4/5 Template:Flagicon Adelaide Oval, Adelaide 30 January 1961 [28]
17 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 1/3 Template:Flagicon Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore 9 October 1976 [29]
18 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 & 2 1/5 Template:Flagicon The Gabba, Brisbane 18–20 November 1988 [30]
19 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 & 2 2/5 Template:Flagicon WACA, Perth 3–4 December 1988 [31]
20 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 2/3 Template:Flagicon Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi 9 October 1994 [32]
21 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 2/5 Template:Flagicon MCG, Melbourne 29 December 1994 [33]
22 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 4/6 Template:Flagicon Old Trafford, Manchester 30 July 1995 [34]
23 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 5/5 Template:Flagicon Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 2 January 1999 [35]
24 Wasim Akram (1/2) Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 3/4 Template:Flagicon Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore 6 March 1999 [36]
25 Wasim Akram (2/2) Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 4/4 Template:Flagicon Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka 14 March 1999 [37]
26 Nuwan Zoysa Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/3 Template:Flagicon Harare Sports Club, Harare 26 November 1999 [38]
27 Abdul Razzaq Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/3 Template:Flagicon Galle International Stadium, Galle 21 June 2000 [39]
28 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/5 Template:Flagicon WACA, Perth 1 December 2000 [40]
29 Harbhajan Singh Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/3 Template:Flagicon Eden Gardens, Calcutta 11 March 2001 [41]
30 Mohammad Sami Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 3/3 Template:Flagicon Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore 8 March 2002 [42]
31 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 & 2 3/4 Template:Flagicon Kensington Oval, Bridgetown 2–5 May 2003 [43]
32 Alok Kapali Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/3 Template:Flagicon Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar 29 August 2003 [44]
33 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 1/2 Template:Flagicon Harare Sports Club, Harare 22 February 2004 [45]
34 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 3/4 Template:Flagicon Kensington Oval, Bridgetown 3 April 2004 [46]
35 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 1/2 Template:Flagicon Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka 20 October 2004 [47]
36 Irfan Pathan Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 3/3 Template:Flagicon National Stadium, Karachi 29 January 2006 [48]
37 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 1/3 Template:Flagicon Seddon Park, Hamilton 8 March 2008 [49]
38 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 1/5 Template:Flagicon Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane 25 November 2010 [50]
39 Template:Sortname (1/2) Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/4 Template:Flagicon Trent Bridge, Nottingham 30 July 2011 [51]
40 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 1/2 Template:Flagicon Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong 13 October 2013 [52]
41 Template:Sortname (2/2) Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/2 Template:Flagicon Headingley, Leeds 20 June 2014 [53]
42 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/3 Template:Flagicon Galle International Stadium, Galle 5 August 2016 [54]
43 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 3/4 Template:Flagicon The Oval, London 31 July 2017 [55]
44 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/2 Template:Flagicon Sabina Park, Kingston 31 August 2019 [56]
45 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 1/2 Template:Flagicon Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi 9 February 2020 [57]
46 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 2 2/2 Template:Flagicon Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet 21 June 2021 [58]
47 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/3 Template:Flagicon Basin Reserve, Wellington 7 December 2024 [59]
48 Template:Sortname Template:Cr Template:Cr 1 2/2 Template:Flagicon Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan 25 January 2025 [60]

By team

England and Australia combined have taken over half of all Test match hat-tricks to date, 26 of 48.[7]

Test hat-tricks by team
Team Hat-tricks No. of bowlers
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Template:Cr 11 9
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Template:Cr 3 3
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Total 48 44

By bowler

Bowlers with multiple hat-tricks
Bowler Hat-tricks
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By type of bowling

Test hat-tricks by type of bowling
Bowling type Hat-tricks Sub-type Hat-tricks Bowlers
Fast bowling 30 Right-arm fast 24 Fred Spofforth, George Lohmann, Jack Hearne, Maurice Allom, Peter Loader, Wes Hall, Geoff Griffin, Courtney Walsh, Merv Hughes, Damien Fleming, Dominic Cork, Darren Gough, Abdul Razzaq, Glenn McGrath, Mohammad Sami, Jermaine Lawson, Andy Blignaut, Matthew Hoggard, Peter Siddle, Stuart Broad (2), Jasprit Bumrah, Naseem Shah, Gus Atkinson
Left-arm fast 6 Wasim Akram (2), Nuwan Zoysa, James Franklin, Irfan Pathan, Ryan Sidebottom
Spin bowling 18 Off spin 9 Billy Bates, Hugh Trumble (2), Tom Goddard, Lance Gibbs, Peter Petherick, Harbhajan Singh, Sohag Gazi, Moeen Ali
Leg spin 4 Jimmy Matthews (2), Shane Warne, Alok Kapali
Left-arm orthodox spin 4 Noman Ali, Johnny Briggs, Rangana Herath, Keshav Maharaj
Left-arm unorthodox spin 1 Lindsay Kline
Total 48 48

By ground

Grounds involved in multiple Test hat-tricks
Ground Hat-tricks
Template:Flagicon Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne 5
Template:Flagicon Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore 3
Template:Flagicon Headingley, Leeds
Template:Flagicon Old Trafford, Manchester
Template:Flagicon Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi 2
Template:Flagicon Bangabandhu Stadium, Dhaka
Template:Flagicon The Gabba, Brisbane
Template:Flagicon Galle International Stadium, Galle
Template:Flagicon Kensington Oval, Bridgetown
Template:Flagicon Harare Sports Club, Harare
Template:Flagicon Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Template:Flagicon WACA Ground, Perth

See also

References

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