graeme swann has taken hat-trick in both innings of a test match.
graeme swann has taken hat-trick in both innings of a test match.
who has taken hat-trick in both innings of a test match?
graeme swann
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 english fast 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.
list of test cricket hat-tricks
in the first test match, sidebottom started the first day the pick of the england bowlers, taking two wickets. the first innings ended on day 2, sidebottom with 4 wickets in total, 2 wickets from the last 2 balls of the innings. despite missing out on a hat-trick with the first ball of the second innings (after forcing jeetan patel to edge his shot to andrew strauss, then cleaning chris martin for a duck), he went on to take the 37th test cricket hat-trick, and the first in 2 years, in new zealand's second innings. dismissing stephen fleming (caught by alastair cook) with the final ball of his ninth over, he then dismissed mathew sinclair (also caught by alastair cook) and jacob oram (lbw) with the first two balls of his tenth over. with the dismissal of oram he also claimed his second five wicket haul in an england test match and when he went on to dismiss kyle mills and daniel vettori he recorded his first test match ten wicket match.
ryan sidebottom