CRICKET TIME ABOUT HATTRIK first Test hat-trick was recorded on 2 January 1879, in only the third Test match to take place, by the Australian pace bowler Fred Spofforth, nicknamed The Demon Bowler, who dismissed three English batsmen with consecutive deliveries at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. At least one bowler from each of the ten nations that play Test cricket has taken a Test hat-trick. 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 Africas first and second innings, both taken on 28 May 1912. He completed both hat-tricks by dismissing South Africas Tommy Ward. Only two other cricketers have taken more than one Test hat-trick: Australian off spinner Hugh Trumble (two years apart, between the same teams at the same ground) and Pakistani fast bowler Wasim Akram (just over a week apart, in consecutive matches between the same teams). Three players have taken a hat-trick on their Test debut, English medium pace bowler Maurice Allom in 1930, New Zealand off-spinner Peter Petherick in 1976, and Australian pace bowler Damien Fleming in 1994.[3] Geoff Griffin took the fewest total Test wickets of any player who recorded a hat-trick, taking only eight wickets in his entire Test career.[3] During the match in which he took his hat-trick, Griffin was repeatedly called for throwing by the umpires and never bowled again in a Test match.[5] Australian Peter Siddle is the only bowler to take a hat-trick on his birthday,[6] and Bangladeshi off spinner Sohag Gazi is the only player to score a century and take a hat-trick in the same Test match.[7] In the five-match series between a Rest of the World XI and England in 1970, a hat- trick was taken by South African Eddie Barlow in the fourth match, at Headingley (the last three of four wickets in five balls) .[8] These matches were considered to be Tests at the time, but that status was later removed.[9] Test hat-tricks Australian bowler Fred Spofforth took the first hat-trick in Test cricket on 2 January 1879, in only the third Test match. Billy Bates was the first player to take a hat-trick for England, four years after Spofforth achieved the feat. Hugh Trumble is one of only three players to take more than one Test hat-trick, achieving the feat in 1902 and 1904. Courtney Walshs hat-trick in 1988 was spread across two innings. In Australias first innings he dismissed the last two batsmen with consecutive deliveries and then took a third wicket with the first ball of the second innings. Wasim Akram took two hat-tricks in the space of nine days in 1999. When Peter Siddle took a hat-trick for Australia in 2010, his final victim was Stuart Broad. Nine months later Broad himself would be the next man to take a Test match hat-trick #sGrIsM
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