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Everything You Need to Know about Australian Test Hat-tricks
- Australian Test hat-tricks: here's everything you need to know
- Scott Boland is the latest entrant
- Overall, 10 Australians have taken 12 Test hat-tricks
Scott Boland is the latest Australian entrant in the club of Test hat-tricks. (Getty Images)
Australian bowlers to claim Test hat-tricks
It was complete mayhem at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica, as Australia steamrolled the West Indies to one of the lowest scores in Test cricket. The icing on the cake was Scott Boland etching his name in the history books with a stunning hat trick.
- Australian bowlers to claim Test hat-tricks
- List of Hat-tricks
- Trivia
- Global Numbers
The metronomic Boland took the wickets of Justin Greaves, Shamar Joseph, and Jomel Warrican to become the 10th Aussie bowler to claim a Test hat-trick. Overall, there have been 12 Test hat-tricks by Australians, with H. Trumble and T.J. Matthews having two hat-tricks to their names.
Boland became the first Aussie to take a Test hat-trick since Rene Farrell in 2011. Among men, the last Australian before Boland to take a Test trifecta was Peter Siddle on his birthday in 2010.
List of Hat-tricks
The full list of Australian bowlers with Test hat-tricks:
| S.No | Bowler | Team Against | Venue & Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FR Spofforth | vs England | Melbourne Cricket Ground 1878/79 |
| 2 | H Trumble | vs England | Melbourne Cricket Ground 1901/02 |
| 3 | H Trumble | vs England | Melbourne Cricket Ground 1903/04 |
| 4 | TJ Matthews (first innings) | vs South Africa | Manchester 1912 |
| 5 | TJ Matthews (second innings) | vs South Africa | Manchester 1912 |
| 6 | LF Kilne | vs South Africa | Cape Town 1957/58 |
| 7 | MG Hughes | vs West Indies | Perth 1988/89 |
| 8 | DW Fleming | vs Pakistan | Rawalpindi 1994/95 |
| 9 | Shane Warne | vs England | Melbourne 1994/95 |
| 10 | Glenn McGrath | vs West Indies | Perth 2000/01 |
| 11 | Peter Siddle | vs England | Brisbane 2010/11 |
| 12 | Scott Boland | vs West Indies | Kingston 2025 |
Trivia
The last Australian hat-trick before Boland was a special one, as Siddle claimed it on his birthday, the only player to do so in the history of the game.
Among the other Australians, Damien Fleming is one of the three to have taken a hat trick on debut.
Boland’s hat-trick was the third time that an Australian took a hat-trick against the West Indies, while England topped the list with five times helping Australians record a hat-trick! South Africa bore the brunt three times and Pakistan once to complete the list of Australian Test hat-tricks.
Global Numbers
Overall, there have been 49 hat-tricks by 45 bowlers in Test cricket by all teams. England tops the list with 15 hat-tricks, while Zimbabwe are at the bottom with just one.
| S.No. | Team | Hat-tricks | No. of bowlers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | England | 15 | 14 |
| 2 | Australia | 12 | 10 |
| 3 | Pakistan | 6 | 5 |
| 4 | West Indies | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | India | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | Bangladesh | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | New Zealand | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | South Africa | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Sri Lanka | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Zimbabwe | 1 | 1 |
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