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. 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. 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. 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.
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. •
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. •
Bangladeshi off spinner
Sohag Gazi is the only male player to score a century and take a hat-trick in the same Test match. • Sri Lankan seamer
Nuwan Zoysa became the first player in the history to take a hat-trick off their 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. • Indian pacer
Irfan Pathan is the first bowler to take a hat-trick in the first over of a Test match, against Pakistan in 2006. 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. ==Test hat-tricks==