On 9 March 2002, during 3rd day’s play in the 2nd Asian Test Championship Final between Pakistan and Sri Lanka at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium, Mohammad Sami, playing in only his 3rd Test, became the third Pakistani after Wasim Akram and Abdul Razzaq and
Mohammad Ramis Shah22-Mar-2002On 9 March 2002, during 3rd day’s play in the 2nd Asian Test Championship Final between Pakistan and Sri Lanka at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium, Mohammad Sami, playing in only his 3rd Test, became the third Pakistani after Wasim Akram and Abdul Razzaq and 27th bowler overall, to claim the 30th hat-trick in Test cricket. The right arm fast bowler grabbed the last three Sri Lankan wickets. He dismissed Buddhika Fernando, Nuwan Zoysa, both leg before and Muttiah Muralitharan, bowled off consecutive deliveries in his 37th over.With this hat-trick Sami also joined Wasim Akram as the only two bowlers with hat-tricks in both forms of the game so far. Wasim Akram, has two hat-tricks in Test cricket and he same number in LOIs. While Sami had a hat-trick in the 2nd ODI against West Indies at Sharjah on 15 February 2002.The current list includes nine Englishmen, eight Australians, three West Indians, three Pakistanis and one bowler each from South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and India. No bowlers from Zimbabwe and Bangladesh have claimed a hat-trick in Test matches so far.It was 30th hat-trick in Tests. Australia’s Thomas James Matthews and Hugh Trumble along with Pakistan’s Wasim Akram are the only bowlers to have performed this feat twice.The first bowler to perform a hat-trick in Test cricket was Australian, Frederick Robert Spofforth who dismissed three in a row in his six for 48 against England at Melbourne in 1878-79. Spofforth’s victims were V Royle, F Mackinnon and T Emmett.At 21 years and 13 days, Mohammed Sami is the third youngest player after Pakistan’s Abdul Razzaq to achieve this feat. Abdul Razzaq who was 20 years and 201 days old when he took three wickets in a row against Sri Lanka at Galle on 21 June 2000 and India’s Harbhajan Singh who was 20 years and 251 days old when he achieved the same against Australia at Calcutta on 11 March 2000.Hattrick heroes in Test cricket
Hattrick hero
For
Vs
Inns
Test
Venue
Series
Mode of dismissals
FR Spofforth
Aus
Eng
1st
1st
Melbourne
1878-79
2 bowled, 1 ct
W Bates
Eng
Aus
1st
2nd
Melbourne
1882-83
1 bowled, 1 ct & b, 1 ct
J Briggs
Eng
Aus
2nd
2nd
Sydney
1891-92
1 bowled, 1 ct, 1 lbw
GA Lohmann
Eng
SA
2nd
1st
Port Elizabeth
1895-96
2 bowled, 1 ct
JT Hearne
Eng
Aus
2nd
3rd
Leeds
1899
1 bowled, 2 ct
H Trumble
Aus
Eng
2nd
2nd
Melbourne
1901-02
1 ct & b, 2 ct
H Trumble
Aus
Eng
2nd
5th
Melbourne
1903-04
1 ct & b, 1 ct, 1 lbw
TJ Matthews
Aus
SA
1st
1st
Manchester
1912
1 bowled, 2 lbw
TJ Matthews
Aus
SA
2nd
1st
Manchester
1912
1 bowled, 2 ct & b
MJC Allom
Eng
NZ
1st
1st
Christchurch
1929-30
1 lbw, 1 ct, 1 bowled
TWJ Goddard
Eng
SA
1st
1st
Johannesburg
1938-39
1 ct & b, 1 st, 1 bowled
PJ Loader
Eng
WI
1st
4th
Leeds
1957
2 bowled, 1 ct
LF Kline
Aus
SA
2nd
2nd
Cape Town
1957-58
2 ct, 1 lbw
WW Hall
WI
Pak
1st
3rd
Lahore (LG)
1958-59
1 lbw, 1 ct, 1 bowled
GM Griffin
SA
Eng
1st
2nd
Lord’s
1960
1 ct, 2 bowled
LR Gibbs
WI
Aus
1st
4th
Adelaide
1960-61
1 lbw, 1 ct, 1 bowled
PJ Petherick
NZ
Pak
1st
1st
Lahore (Gd)
1976-77
1 ct & b, 2 ct
CA Walsh
WI
Aus
1st
1st
Brisbane
1988-89
2 ct, 1 lbw
MG Hughes
Aus
WI
1st
2nd
Perth
1988-89
2 ct, 1 lbw
DW Fleming
Aus
Pak
2nd
2nd
Rawalpindi
1994-95
2 ct, 1 lbw
SK Warne
Aus
Eng
2nd
2nd
Melbourne
1994-95
1 lbw, 2 ct
DG Cork
Eng
WI
2nd
4th
Manchester
1995
1 bowled, 2 lbw
D Gough
Eng
Aus
1st
5th
Sydney
1998-99
1 ct, 2 bowled
Wasim Akram
Pak
SL
1st
1st
Lahore (Gd)
1998-99
1 ct, 2 bowled
Wasim Akram
Pak
SL
2nd
1st
Dhaka
1998-99
2 ct, 1 bowled
DNT Zoysa
SL
Zim
1st
2nd
Harare
1999-00
2 lbw, 1 ct
Abdur Razzaq
Pak
SL
1st
2nd
Galle
1999-00
1 ct, 2 lbw
GD McGrath
Aus
WI
1st
2nd
Perth
2000-01
3 ct
Harbhajan Singh
Ind
Aus
1st
2nd
Kolkata
2000-01
2 lbw, 1 ct
Muhammad Sami
Pak
SL
1st
Only
Lahore
2001-02
2 lbw, 1 bowled
Notes:No bowler from Zimbabwe or Bangladesh has achieved this feat. A total of eleven hat-tricks have taken place in Australia (five in Melbourne, two in Sydney and Perth and one each in Adelaide and Brisbane), followed by six in England (three in Manchester, two in Leeds and one at Lord’s), five in Pakistan (four in Lahore and one at Rawalpindi), three in South Africa (one each at Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg and Cape Town) and finally one in New Zealand (at Christchurch), one at a neutral venue in Bangladesh (Dhaka), one in Sri Lanka (Galle), one in Zimbabwe (Harare) and one in India (Kolkata).Lahore has the unique distinction with four separate hat-tricks at two different grounds – one at the Lawrence Gardens and three at the Gaddafi Stadium. Allom, Petherick and Fleming did so on their Test debut. Allom, in fact took four wickets in 5 balls. Trumble (his 2nd hat-trick) and Griffin did so in their last Tests. Trumble, Matthews and Wasim Akram are the only bowlers to do so on two occasions. Matthews did so in the same match, but in separate innings in the same afternoon. Goddard was the oldest at 38 years and 87 days. Wasim Akram is the only Test captain to do so. Zoysa became the first bowler to take a hat-trick off his first three balls in a Test match. The Walsh and Hughes hat-tricks were spread over two innings. Allom, Petherick and Fleming did the hat-trick on debut.Petherick has the most expensive innings analysis of somebody doing the hat-trick (3 for 103). Largest total to include a hat-trick is 537 by Pakistan at Rawalpindi in 1994-95. Least number of career Test wickets for a bowler doing a hattrick are 8 by Griffin.All data updated to 20.03.2002