nuwan zoysa was the only bowler to take hatric in both innings in test match.
nuwan zoysa was the only bowler to take hatric in both innings in test match.
only bowler to take hatric in both innings in test match?
nuwan zoysa
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 cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five-for" or "fifer") refers to a bowler taking five or more wickets in a single innings. this is regarded as a notable achievement. the first bowler to take a five-wicket haul in a test match at the riverside ground was richard johnson in 2003 who, making his test debut for england against zimbabwe, finished with bowling figures of 6 wickets for 33 runs. these remained the best test bowling figures at the riverside until 2013 when australia's ryan harris took 7 wickets for 117 runs in the fourth test against england. stuart broad is the only bowler to have taken two five-wicket hauls in test matches at the ground, doing so in the same test match, also making him the only bowler to have taken ten wickets in an international match at the riverside. overall, as of august 2015, nine bowlers have taken ten test match five-wicket hauls at the ground. every test match in which a five-wicket haul has been taken at the riverside ground has resulted in an england victory.
list of international cricket five-wicket hauls at the riverside ground