List Of One Day International Cricket Hat-tricks
A hat-trick in cricket is referred to when a bowler has taken three wickets in consecutive deliveries, dismissing three different batsmen with three consecutive balls bowled. It is a relatively rare event in One Day International (ODI) cricket with only 32 occurrences in over 3,000 matches since the first ODI, between Australia and England on 5 January 1971. The first ODI hat-trick was taken by Jalal-ud-Din of Pakistan, playing against Australia at Niaz Stadium in September 1982; the most recent was taken by Thisara Perera of Sri Lanka, playing against Pakistan on 16 June 2012.
Pakistani bowlers hold the record for the most ODI hat-tricks taken by a team, with eight. The only bowler to have taken three career hat-tricks is Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka, while three other bowlers (Wasim Akram, Saqlain Mushtaq and Chaminda Vaas) have taken two hat-tricks. Hat-tricks are dominated by fast bowlers with Pakistan's Saqlain and Bangladesh's Abdur Razzak the only two spinners to have taken an ODI hat-trick. Chaminda Vaas of Sri Lankan cricket team became the only bowler to claim a hat-trick in the first three balls of any form of international cricket when he took the first three wickets off the opening three balls of their match against Bangladesh during 2003 Cricket World Cup. Seven hat-tricks have occurred in World Cup matches, the most important form of ODI cricket. The last was during the 2011 World Cup when Malinga took a hat-trick against Kenya to become the only bowler to claim two World Cup hat-tricks.
Pakistanis Wasim Akram and Mohammad Sami have both achieved hat-tricks in ODI and Test cricket. Brett Lee is the only cricketer to have taken a hat-trick in ODI and Twenty20 International cricket.
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