Notable Test Hat-tricks
- 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 (No. 8 and 9 in the list below), both taken on 28 May 1912.
- Only three cricketers have taken a Test hat-trick more than once: Australian off spinner Hugh Trumble (No. 6 and 7 in the list below, two years apart, between the same teams at the same ground), Jimmy Matthews (Australian leg spinner) and Pakistani fast bowler Wasim Akram (No. 24 and 25 in the list below, just over a week apart, in consecutive matches between the same teams). Wasim Akram is also the only player to have taken a hat-trick while Test captain.
- Only two cricketers have taken a Test hat-trick and a One-Day International hat-trick: both Pakistani bowlers, Mohammed Sami and Wasim Akram; however, Wasim Akram has the unique distinction of taking two Test hat-tricks and two ODI hat-tricks, making four international hat-tricks in all.
- Three players have taken a hat-trick on their Test debut, English medium pace bowler Maurice Allom in 1930 (No. 10), New Zealand off-spinner Peter Petherick in 1976 (No. 17), and Australian pace bowler Damien Fleming in 1994 (No. 20).
- T J Matthews (both hat-tricks), Dominic Cork, Mohammed Sami and Jermaine Lawson all achieved their hat-tricks without fielding assistance
- No player has taken four wickets in four balls (although this feat has been accomplished in one day cricket, by Lasith Malinga 28/3/2007 for Sri Lanka vs South Africa), but Allom's hat-trick was the last three of four wickets in five balls of his eighth over in Test cricket (the second ball being a dot ball). Two other Test players have taken four wickets in five balls: Chris Old, playing for England against Pakistan at Edgbaston in 1978 (the third ball of the series was a no ball), and Wasim Akram, playing for Pakistan against West Indies at Lahore in 1990–91 (the third ball of the series was a dot ball).
- The youngest player to take a hat-trick is Bangladeshi leg spinner Alok Kapali (No. 32), when aged 19 years 240 days. The oldest player is English off spinner Tom Goddard (No.11), aged 38 years and 87 days.
- Irfan Pathan (No. 36) is the only bowler to have taken a hat-trick in the first over of a Test match.
- Courtney Walsh (No. 18) & Merv Hughes (No. 19) are the only two bowlers from opposing teams to have taken hat-tricks in the same series.
- Merv Hughes (No. 19) is the only bowler to have taken a Test hat-trick with each ball in a different over.
- Peter Siddle (No. 38), is the first bowler to take a hat-trick on his birthday, turning 26 on Thursday 25 November 2010.
- All Test hat-tricks by Pakistani bowlers (Wasim Akram, Abdul Razzaq, Mohammad Sami) have been against Sri Lanka.
- Stuart Broad was involved in 2 consecutive hat-tricks. He was the 3rd victim of the 38th and the bowler who took the 39th.
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