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Hat-trick (cricket)
In cricket, a hat-trick occurs when a bowler takes three wickets from three 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 in the same match. Only wickets attributed to the bowler count towards a hat-trick; run outs do not count, although they can contribute towards a so-called team hat-trick, which is ostensibly a normal hat-trick except that the three successive deliveries can be wickets from any bowler in the team and with any mode of dismissal. Hat-tricks are rare, and as such are treasured by bowlers. The term is also sometimes used to mean winning the same competition three times in a row. For example, Australia winning the Cricket World Cup in 1999, 2003 and 2007, and Lancashire winning the County Championship in 1926, 1927 and 1928. Test cricket In Test cricket history there have been just 48 ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Trumble
Hugh Trumble (19 May 1867 – 14 August 1938) was an Australian cricketer who played 32 Test matches as a bowling all-rounder between 1890 and 1904. He captained the Australian team in two Tests, winning both. Trumble took 141 wickets in Test cricket—a world record at the time of his retirement—at an average of 21.78 runs per wicket. He is one of only four bowlers to twice take a hat-trick in Test cricket. Observers in Trumble's day, including the authoritative ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', regarded him as ranking among the great Australian bowlers of the Golden Age of cricket. He was named as one of the ''Wisden'' Cricketers of the Year in 1897 and the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, established in 1996, inducted him in 2004. A tall and thin off spinner, Trumble delivered the ball at a quicker pace than most spin bowlers, using his height and uncommonly long fingers to his greatest advantage. He was at his best on the softer pitches of England, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lankan Cricket Team In New Zealand In 2024–25
The Sri Lanka cricket team toured New Zealand in December 2024 and January 2025 to play the New Zealand cricket team. The tour consisted of three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. In July 2024, the New Zealand Cricket New Zealand Cricket, formerly the New Zealand Cricket Council, is the governing body for professional cricket in New Zealand. Cricket is the most popular and highest profile summer sport in New Zealand. New Zealand Cricket operates the New ... (NZC) confirmed the fixtures for the tour, as a part of the 2024–25 home international season. Squads Tour matches New Zealand XI played two warm-up games against touring Sri Lankan team on 23 December. One match was played in T20 format while the other match was played in T10 format. 10 overs match 20 overs match T20I series 1st T20I 2nd T20I 3rd T20I ODI series 1st ODI 2nd ODI 3rd ODI References External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maheesh Theekshana
Morawakage Maheesh Theekshana (born 1 August 2000), is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer who plays all three formats of the game for Sri Lanka national cricket team. He made his international debut for Sri Lanka in September 2021. Regarded as one of the best T20 bowlers in the world, his bowling action resembles that of former Sri Lankan mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis, who coincidentally happened to be his mentor with the Sri Lanka Army Sports Club, whom he has represented in the Sri Lankan domestic game. As of today he is ranked by ICC as the number one bowler in One Day Internationals. He is known for bowling spin at high speeds that exceeds 100 km/h and for bowling yorkers by a spinner, which makes difficult for the batsman to face. He is also a handy lower-order batsman. Early life Theekshana grew up with his grandmother and hailed from Siddhartha Vidyalaya, Sedawatta. Two of the old boys from St. Benedict's College, Colombo requested the guardian of Theekshana to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalal-ud-Din (cricketer)
Jalal-ud-din (born 12 June 1959) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in six Test matches and eight One Day Internationals from 1982 to 1985. Cricket career A specialist right-arm pace bowler, Jalal played first-class cricket in Pakistan from 1977–78 to 1988–89. His father and older brother also played first-class cricket. He was the first player to take a hat-trick in ODI cricket. He did so while playing against Australia at Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad on 20 September 1982. Coaching career Jalal is now a coach, and is the only Pakistani Test cricketer who has the accreditation as both an ECB and PCB level 3 coach. As of February 2021, he was a level 4 coach. In January 2018, he was appointed chief selector to the Pakistan women's team. In March 2019, former Pakistan women's team captain Urooj Mumtaz replaced him in the position. In October 2020, he was appointed as USA’s national selector for the South-West Zone, responsible for selecting the men's seniors and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of One Day International Cricket Hat-tricks
A hat-trick in cricket is when a bowler takes three wickets on consecutive deliveries, dismissing three different batsmen. It is a relatively rare event in One Day International (ODI) cricket with only 50 occurrences in 4546 matches since the first ODI match between Australia and England on 5 January 1971. The first ODI hat-trick was taken by Pakistan's Jalal-ud-Din against Australia in Hyderabad, Sindh, in September 1982. The most recent player to achieve this feat is Maheesh Theekshana of Sri Lanka against New Zealand in January 2025. The only bowler to have taken three ODI hat-tricks is Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga. Five other bowlers Pakistan's Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq, Sri Lanka's Chaminda Vaas, New Zealand's Trent Boult and India's Kuldeep Yadavhave taken two hat-tricks in the format. Vaas is the first and only bowler to claim a hat-trick on the first three balls of any form of international cricket; he achieved the feat against Bangladesh during the 2003 Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Day International
One Day International (ODI) is a format of cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of fifty overs, with the game lasting up to 7 hours. The World Cup, generally held every four years, is played in this format. They are major matches and considered the highest standard of List A, limited-overs competition. The international one-day game is a late-twentieth-century development. The first ODI was played on 5 January 1971 between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. When the first three days of the third Test were washed out officials decided to abandon the match and, instead, play a one-off one day game consisting of 40 eight-ball overs per side. Australia won the game by 5 wickets. ODIs were played in white-coloured kits with a red-coloured ball. In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ashes
The Ashes is a Test cricket series played biennially between England and Australia. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, '' The Sporting Times'', immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and that "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". The mythical ashes immediately became associated with the 1882–83 series played in Australia, before which the English captain Ivo Bligh had vowed to "regain those ashes". The English media therefore dubbed the tour ''the quest to regain the Ashes''. After England won two of the three Tests on the tour, a small urn was presented to Bligh in Melbourne. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of a wooden bail, and were humorously described as "the ashes of Australian cricket". It is not clear whether that "tiny silver urn" is the same as the small terracotta urn given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Siddle
Peter Matthew Siddle (born 25 November 1984) is an Australian former cricketer. He was a specialist right-arm fast bowling, fast-medium bowler who played mostly for Victoria cricket team, Victoria in first-class cricket, first-class and List A cricket, and also had a two season stint at Tasmania. In the Big Bash League, he was a foundation member of the Melbourne Stars, although he never played a game for them. He also played one season for cross town rivals the Melbourne Renegades, before a long stint with the Adelaide Strikers. He later played for the Renegades and Stars in the 23-24 and 24-25 seasons respectively. He played Test cricket for Australia national cricket team, Australia over an eight-year period from 2008 to 2016, before being recalled for the Australian cricket team in the United Arab Emirates in 2018–19, Test series against Pakistan in 2018. He retired from International cricket in December 2019. Australia won the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy during his time in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irfan Pathan
Irfan Pathan (; born 27 October 1984) is an Indian cricket commentator, analyst and former player. He was a bowling all-rounder and member of the Indian cricket team that won the inaugural 2007 ICC Twenty20 World Cup and 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. Beginning his career as a fast-medium swing and seam bowler, Pathan broke into the national team soon after turning 19, and evoked comparisons with Pakistan's Wasim Akram with his promising performances and prodigious swing. In early 2006, Pathan became the only bowler to take a Test hat-trick in the first over of the match (vs Pakistan at Karachi). However, the productive run did not last and after the start of 2006, Pathan began to steadily lose pace and swing, and his wicket-taking dwindled. Although Pathan's batting continued to be productive, he was not regarded as a specialist and was dropped from the team in both Tests and ODIs by the end of 2006, and by 2007 was no longer in the squad until his return in the 2007 World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuwan Zoysa
Demuni Nuwan Tharanga Zoysa (born 13 May 1978), or Nuwan Zoysa, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. He was a tall left-arm seam bowler, who played 30 Test Cricket, Tests and 95 One Day Internationals (ODIs) for Sri Lankan Cricket Team, Sri Lanka. Nuwan was educated at Isipathana College, Colombo. In his eighth Test, Zoysa became the first player in history to take a Hat-trick (cricket), hat-trick off his first three balls of a Test match. He achieved this against Zimbabwe national cricket team, Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club, Harare in November 1999, dismissing Trevor Gripper, Murray Goodwin and Neil Johnson (cricketer), Neil Johnson. International career Zoysa made his first-class debut in 1996/97 and during his first season he took his career best figures of 7 for 58, playing for Sinhalese Sports Club. He made his Test debut soon after in Dunedin against New Zealand. He took over 100 ODI wickets for Sri Lanka, becoming the eighth to have achieved the milestone in the 2004 Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Broad
Stuart Christopher John Broad (born 24 June 1986) is an English former cricketer who played Test cricket for the England cricket team and was One Day and Twenty20 International captain. Broad was a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20. His longevity, and highly successful partnership with fellow fast bowler James Anderson cemented him as one of England's greatest ever Test bowlers. A right-arm seam bowler and left-handed batsman, Broad began his professional career at Leicestershire; in 2008 he transferred to Nottinghamshire, the county of his birth and the team for which his father played. In August 2006 he was voted the Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year. In the fourth Test of the 2015 Ashes series Broad took career-best figures of 8/15 in the Australian first innings as they were dismissed for just 60. This performance was named as Wisden's Men's Test spell of the decade. Broad was awarded the Man of the Match in the fifth Tes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
