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A peek into the history of hat-tricks in ODIs
Sri Lankan fast bowler Chaminda Vaas took an amazing hat-trick against the minnows of cricket, Bangladesh, on February 14 at Pietermaritzburg. His hat-trick was amazing because no batsmen was able to open his account as they were dismissed on the first three balls of the match. But how many hat-tricks have so far been taken in One-day Internationals and who are the lucky bowlers to have done so? Read below to know more.
There was a time when no bowler had taken three wickets on as many balls in One-day Internationals but after the historic feat by Jalal-ud-din, a Pakistani fast bowler in 1982 at Hyderabad, many have managed to take one. Jalal was the first such bowler to register a hat-trick in limited overs Internationals. His feat came when he dismissed Australians Rodney Marsh, Bruce Yardley and Geoff Lawson off successive deliveries at Hyderabad. While Marsh and Lawson were clean bowled, it was Wasim Bari who took the catch of Yardley to help his fellow countryman achieve the first hat-trick in ODIs.
Four years later, left-arm Australian fast bowler Bruce Reid became the second player to dismiss three players off as many deliveries. He achieved the feat against New Zealand in January 1986 in Sydney when he dismissed Bruce Blair, Ervin McSweeney and Stuart Gillespie on successive deliveries. He was aided by Greg Matthews and Allan Border who took catches of the first two while the tall pacer bowled Gillespie to become the second bowler ever to achieve a One-day hat-trick.
India’s Chetan Sharma, who was hit for a last-ball six by Javed Miandad in Sharjah in 1986, took the first hat-trick in World Cups and the third in one-dayers. He clean bowled all his victims at Nagpur in India in the 1987 World Cup’s most crucial tie against New Zealand where Sunil Gavaskar scored his maiden and only ODI century. Sharma’s victims were batsman Ken Rutherford, wicket-keeper Ian Smith and Evan Chatfield.
A couple of years later, Pakistan’s fast pacer Wasim Akram helped us win matches through his twin hat-tricks at Sharjah. His first feat came against West Indies where he clean bowled Jeff Dujon, Malcolm Marshall and Curtly Ambrose in 1989 while his second such feat came in the final of the second Austral-Asia Cup, in 1990, against the then World Champions Australia. He clean bowled Merv Hughes, Carl Rackemann and Terry Alderman when all hopes of a win were lost for Pakistan.
India’s premier all-rounder Kapil Dev took the sixth and his only hat-trick against Sri Lanka in 1991 at Calcutta. His victims were Roshan Mahanama who was caught by Kiran More, Ravi Ratnayake who was adjudged leg before and current Sri Lankan skipper Sanath Jayasuriya who was caught by Sanjay Manjrekar. The feat was emulated ten months later when Pakistan’s Aaqib Javed became the youngest bowler to achieve a hat-trick, the seventh in one-dayers. He dismissed India’s Ravi Shastri, Mohammad Azharuddin and Sachin Tendulkar - all lbw - off three deliveries and won the Sharjah Cup for Pakistan as he took four more wickets in the match to finish with the match haul of 7-37.
New Zealand’s Danny Morrison matched Kapil Dev’s feat when he took the eighth hat-trick in ODIs. Morrison clean bowled Kapil Dev, Salil Ankola and Nayan Mongia at Napier in 1994. Waqar Younis took the ninth hat-trick as he became the fourth Pakistani to do so. He did so against New Zealand at East London where all of his victims - Chris Harris, Chris Pringle and Richard de Groen - were clean bowled.
Saqlain Mushtaq became the first and so far the only spinner to achieve a hat-trick in ODIs when he dismissed Grant Flower, John Rennie and Andy Whittall of Zimbabwe at Peshawar in November 1996 to take the 10th hat-trick in ODIs. While the first two were caught by Moin Khan, Whittall edged the hat-trick ball to Saleem Malik who accepted the catch and helped Saqlain acquire a hat-trick. Two months later in January 1997, Zimbabwe’s Eddo Brandes accounted for three Englishmen off three balls at Harare to register his name in record books as a hat-trick bowler. His hat-trick was the eleventh in the game and his victims were Nick Knight, John Crawley and Nasser Hussain. While Crawley was adjudged leg before, the others were well caught behind the wicket by Andy Flower.
Australia’s Anthony Stuart, who didn’t play much cricket for Australia, took a hat-trick in his second match against Pakistan just thirteen days after Brandes took a hat-trick. His feat was the twelfth ever and his victims - Ijaz Ahmed, Mohammad Wasim and Moin Khan - were all caught behind by Ian Healy and Mark Taylor who took the hat-trick catch of Moin Khan. Saqlain re-entered the record books with his second hat-trick - thirteenth in ODIs - which was incidentally the second hat-trick in the World Cup. He dismissed three Zimbabweans at The Oval to win the match for Pakistan. While Henry Olonga was caught by Moin Khan, Adam Huckle was stumped while trying to go over the top. The third victim, Mpumelelo Mbangwa was adjudged leg before to give Pakistan a win in their World Cup 1999 match.
Sri Lanka’s Chaminda Vaas then had a gem of a match in December 2001 in which he not only bowled Zimbabwe out for a record low score of 38 but also became the first bowler to take 8 wickets in a match. Vaas finished with match figures of 8-19 off his 8 overs which included a hat-trick - the fourteenth in One-day Internationals. He had Stuart Carlisle caught by Suresh Perera while had Craig Wishart and Tatenda Taibu leg before off the third, fourth and fifth ball off his sixth over.
Mohammad Sami became the fifth Pakistani to register a hat-trick in one-dayers after Wasim Akram, Aaqib Javed, Waqar Younis and spin-king Saqlain Mushtaq. He took his amazing feat in his sixth match when at Sharjah, he had Ridley Jacobs leg before and clean bowled Corey Collymore and Cameron Cuffy for nought. His hat-trick was the fifteenth in ODIs and came 364 days before the latest hat-trick feat by Vaas in World Cup 2003. Vaas’s second hat-trick came against Bangladesh at Pietermaritzburg in Sri Lanka’s second World Cup 2003 match. In what is the sixteenth hat-trick in ODIs, Vaas first bowled Hannan Sarkar first ball while on the very next delivery caught Mohammad Ashraful off his own bowling. He bowled a brilliant in-swinging delivery to Ehsanul Haque who edged the ball to Mahela Jayawardene in the slips.
Hat-tricks in One Day Internationals
Jalal-ud-din Pakistan v Australia Hyderabad 1982/83
BA Reid Australia v New Zealand Sydney 1985/86
C Sharma India v New Zealand Nagpur 1986/87
Wasim Akram Pakistan v West Indies Sharjah 1989/90
Wasim Akram Pakistan v Australia Sharjah 1989/90
Kapil Dev India v Sri Lanka Calcutta 1990/91
Aaqib Javed Pakistan v India Sharjah 1991/92
DK Morrison New Zealand v India Napier 1993/94
Waqar Younis Pakistan v New Zealand East London 1994/95
Saqlain Mushtaq Pakistan v Zimbabwe Peshawar 1996/97
EA Brandes Zimbabwe v England Harare 1996/97
AM Stuart Australia v Pakistan Melbourne 1996/97
Saqlain Mushtaq Pakistan v Zimbabwe The Oval 1999
WPUJC Vaas Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe Colombo (SSC) 2001/02
Mohammad Sami Pakistan v West Indies Sharjah 2001/02
WPUJC Vaas Sri Lanka v Bangladesh Pietermaritzburg 2002/03
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