Double Hat Trick Meaning In Cricket

When a player takes four wickets in four consecutive balls it is either called a four in four or more commonly a double hat trick.

Double hat trick meaning in cricket. There have been only 41 hat tricks till date in Test cricket. The first use of this phrase was in cricket for the feat of a bowler who took three wickets with three successive balls for which he would be presented with a new hat by the cricket club. Matthews who took two hat-tricks in a Test match against South Africa in the.

Veteran slinger a week after turning 36 takes four wickets in as many balls in an astonishing. Watch top 5 best hat-tricks in cricket history everHat-trick in cricket is taking three wickets on three consecutive ballsThis video is compilation of 5 be. Double Hat-trick bowler taking a wicket off each of four consecutive deliveries that he bowls.

A bowler taking a wicket off each of three consecutive deliveries that he bowls in a single match whether in the same over or split up in two consecutive overs or two overs in two different spells or even spread across two innings of a test match or first-class cricket game. What may well have influenced the choice of words was the sudden popularity of stage conjurers Hat Tricks which immediately preceded the first use of the term on the cricket. Noun the retiring of three batsmen with three consecutive balls by a bowler in cricket.

Achieved once in international cricket by Lasith Malinga at the 2007 World Cup. The feat is difficult and is quite a rarity in cricket there having been only 37 hat tricks in Test cricket history but trick doesnt seem the obvious word for it. The term hat trick comes from cricket first documented use circa 1850 and in cricket a double hat trick is defined as 4 wickets in 4 deliveries a triple hat trick 5 wickets in 5 deliveries etc.

36 in ODIs and 3 in the new format Twenty20. The only instance in Test cricket before Wasim Akrams feat of a double hat-trick was in 1912 by an Australian T. JP Duminy - South Africa Angelo Mathews Nuwan Kulasekara Tharindu Kaushal vs Sri Lanka 2015.

Malinga makes history with devastating double hat-trick. It later was transferred to ice hockey. Sri Lanka v New Zealand T20Is - Mens.