jimmy matthews is the only bowler to have taken a hattrick in both innings of a test matches.
jimmy matthews is the only bowler to have taken a hattrick in both innings of a test matches.
who is the only bowler to have taken a hattrick in both innings of a test matches?
jimmy matthews
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
returning to trinidad, roach scored two fifties in three first-class matches in 1929. in 1930 the mcc undertook a tour of the west indies which included four test matches—the first tests to be played in the west indies. the mcc side was not at full international strength; it included players who were either just beginning or just ending their international careers, and several star english bowlers were missing. roach played in the first test and, opening the batting, scored 122 in the first innings, the first test century for west indies and roach's maiden century in first-class cricket. he hit the english bowler wilfred rhodes for successive fours to reach three figures. in his second innings, he scored 77 runs and the match was drawn. after the test, roach played twice for trinidad against the mcc team without much success. when he failed to score in either innings of the second test, played in trinidad, he had scored just 24 runs in his last six innings. disappointed with his form, he intended to miss the next test, but the selectors picked him anyway, and he scored 209, the first double-century for the west indies in test matches. he shared partnerships of 144 for the first wicket with errol hunte, and 192 with george headley for the second wicket. his second hundred runs were scored in 74 minutes. in his history of west indies cricket, michael manley describes roach's innings as "dashing" but containing an element of luck which contrasted with the safe play of headley. west indies eventually won the match comfortably to record their first win in test matches. roach did little during the final test, but finished the series with 467 runs at 58.37, placing him third in the team batting averages. only roach and headley from the home team played in every test match. inter-island politics meant that selectors tended to pick players from the island hosting the test. in the series, 29 players represented the west indies and the team had a different captain in each match.
clifford roach