Facts and Feats
- William Brain performed a hat-trick of stumpings off Charlie Townsend, a 16-year-old Clifton schoolboy playing for Gloucestershire v Somerset at Cheltenham while on holiday in 1893.
- Mike Procter twice took an all lbw hat trick.
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