Who has most hat-trick in cricket?
Lasith Malinga with the most hat-tricks in international cricket, breaks a tie with Wasim Akram on 4!
The Caribbean making it to the 6 ball 6 sixes record list in International cricket is Kieron Pollard. Pollard is known for his hard-hitting and match-winning knocks. This particular knock came in 2021 in a home game against Sri Lanka, chasing a paltry total.
Who has taken most hat-tricks in T20 internationals? Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga is the first bowler to record 2 hat-tricks in the men's T20I format.
Lasith Malinga took his first hat trick in 2007 during a One Day International (ODI) match against South Africa. In fact, in this match he has taken four wickets in four consecutive deliveries.
Timed at six minutes 12 seconds, Salah came off the bench to score the fastest Champions League treble; Newell still holds the record for quickest ever 'perfect' hat-trick, scoring with his left foot, right foot and head.
Maximum men: Batters with most sixes in international cricket. Amongst active cricketers, Rohit Sharma (519) has hit the most number of sixes in international cricket. Hitting a six is widely considered to be one of the biggest game-changing abilities that a batter could possess in modern-day cricket.
Tich Freeman achieved it three times and three other players – W. G. Grace, Hedley Verity and Jim Laker – have done it twice. Laker (in 1956), Anil Kumble (in 1999) and Ajaz Patel (in 2021) have achieved this feat in Test cricket.
The longest six in cricket history was hit by English cricketer Albert Trott recorded during a Test match against Australia in 1899 at the Lord's, when he had smashed Monty Noble for a six that travelled nearly 120-125 meters.
West Indies opener Chris Gayle is the only batsman to smash a six off the first ball of a test match. Gayle achieved the feat against Bangladesh in Mirpur in November 2012, when he smashed 18 in the first over, which was bowled by debutant off-spinner Sohag Gazi.
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Most Hat Tricks in IPL.
Player Name | Year | How Many? |
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Amit Mishra | IPL 2008, IPL 2011, IPL 2013 | 3 hattricks |
Yuvraj Singh | IPL 2009, IPL 2009 | 2 hattrick |
Who is the only player to score hattrick?
Geoff Hurst (1966) & Kylian Mbappé (2022) are the only players to have scored a hat-trick in the final. Two players have scored a hat-trick in the second group stage of the World Cup, Paolo Rossi and Zbigniew Boniek, both in 1982.
In 1912, Australian Jimmy Matthews achieved the feat twice in one game against South Africa. The only other players to achieve two hat-tricks are Australia's Hugh Trumble, against England in 1902 and 1904, Pakistan's Wasim Akram, in separate games against Sri Lanka in 1999, and England's Stuart Broad in 2011 and 2014.

Bowler takes a 5-wicket haul within 6 balls for 1st time in T20I cricket history. Bahrain's Rizwan Butt on Wednesday became the first player to take a five-wicket haul in T20I cricket within six consecutive deliveries. Rizwan achieved the feat against Singapore in a T20I in Bangi, Malaysia.
Only 7 bowlers have ever managed to reach the 500 wicket mark in test match cricket. Muttiah Muralitharan leads the pack followed by India's Anil Kumble and Australia's Shane Warne.
One man who has everyone on this list beaten, though, is the Sheffield Sunday League footballer Alex Torr, who fired in an astonishing 70-second hat-trick in a match in 2013.
Robbie Fowler has scored more perfect hat-tricks than any other player, with three.
Sadio Mane has broken Robbie Fowler's record for the fastest Premier League hat-trick in history after scoring three goals inside three minutes during Southampton's match against Aston Villa.
India batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad has created a huge List A cricket record by slamming 7 sixes in an over. Gaikwad did the same in the Vijay Hazare Trophy quarter-final clash on Monday. On the receiving end was Uttar Pradesh bowler Shiva Singh, who was hit for 6 6 6 6 6nb 6 6.
Updated Odi batsman ranking - updated on 18 Jan 2023
As per the latest ICC rankings for Odi batsmen updated on 18 Jan 2023, Pakistan Babar Azam with 887 ratings is placed on the top of the table. South Africa Rassie van der Dussenwith 766 ratings is occupies the second spot in the rankings.
Former Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar is the fastest bowler in the world, breaking the 100 miles per hour (mph) barrier against England for the first time in international cricket. Here, we look at the fastest bowlers in the world.
Has anyone taken 20 wickets in a Test match?
In 1956, he achieved a still-unequalled world record when he took nineteen (of a maximum twenty) wickets in a Test match at Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Manchester, enabling England to defeat Australia in what has become known as "Laker's Match".
In Kuala Lumpur, of all places, Garry Sobers ran through the hosts with 5 wickets in 5 balls on March 28, 1964. Abhishek Mukherjee takes a look at an oft-forgotten amazing feat.
Bowlers | Country | Ground |
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A E E Vogler G A Faulkner | South Africa | Old Wanderers |
J C Laker G A R Lock | England | Old Trafford |
Fazal Mahmood Khan Mohammad | Pakistan | National Stadium (Karachi) |
D K Lillee R A L Massie | Australia | Lord's |
South Africa's AB de Villiers holds the record for the fastest one-day international (ODI) century of all time - he took just 31 balls to reach the milestone in a match against the West Indies in Johannesburg in 2015.
The longest six in cricket. Shahid Afridi (158 metres) is the only cricketer to hit a six longer than 150 metres. Hitting sixes is the quickest way to score runs in cricket and there are some players who have a penchant for plundering the ball to record distances.
Afghanistan opener Hazatullah Zazai entered the record books when he launched six sixes in an over against left-arm spinner Abdullah Mazari in the 2018 Afghanistan Premier League.
Andre Russell –
In a season, he scored 52 sixes and some blinders.
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Fastest 50 in T20 International: Top 10 Player List.
Player | Ramesh Satheesan |
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Balls Taken to Score 50 | 14 |
Team | Romania |
Against | Serbia |
Year | 2021 |
The Australian Adam Gilchrist was the first cricketer ever to do so. The 50-year-old played 96 Test matches for the Kangaroos and hit 100 sixes in Test cricket. Brendon McCullum became the second cricketer to achieve this feat.
Test hat-tricks
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 four players to take more than one Test hat-trick, achieving the feat in 1902 and 1904. Courtney Walsh's hat-trick in 1988 was spread across two innings.
Who is most sixes in IPL?
- Chris Gayle. 357. TEAM[S]: Royal Challengers Bangalore,Kolkata Knight Riders,Punjab Kings. ...
- AB de Villiers. 251. ...
- Rohit Sharma. 240. ...
- 229. TEAM[S]: Chennai Super Kings,Rising Pune Supergiant. ...
- Kieron Pollard. 223. ...
- 218. TEAM[S]: Royal Challengers Bangalore. ...
- David Warner. 216. ...
- Suresh Raina. 203.
Which player has the most hat tricks without penalties? It is precisely the Argentine Lionel Messi. The current Paris Saint-Germain player has scored a total of 40 hat tricks without having to score from the penalty spot. A record that glorifies even more the figure of the rosarino in the world of soccer.
Jamie Carragher was the first to score two own goals in a Premier League match, in 1999/2000, with the added insult that it was against Liverpool's arch-rivals Manchester United.
Lasith Malinga (SL) vs New Zealand in 2019
Lasith Malinga is the only player in history who has taken 5 hat-tricks across formats. Two of which are double hat-tricks. His T20I double hat-trick came against New Zealand in 2019 at Pallekele.
In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") occurs when a bowler takes five or more wickets in a single innings. This is regarded by critics as a notable achievement, equivalent to a century from a batsman.
World Cup 2010.
Across all formats, three cricketers have taken five wickets in a six-ball over: Neil Wagner (New Zealand; W-W-W-W-dot-W), for Otago against Wellington in the Plunket Shield at the Queenstown Events Centre, New Zealand, on 6 April 2011; Al-Amin Hossain (Bangladesh; W-2-W-W-W-W), for the UCB-BCB XI against Abahani ...
Jim Laker, Anil Kumble, and Ajaz Patel are the three cricketers who took 10 wickets in an innings in a test match. The stunt got achieved in 1956, 1999, and 2021 respectively. Anil Kumble holds the record for getting 10 wickets in a single inning of a test match. He took 56 wickets in Sharjah Cricket Stadium.
Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, New Zealand's Sir Richard Hadlee became the first player in history to claim 400 Test wickets when he dismissed India's Sanjay Manjrekar in Christchurch on February 4, 1990.
Who take 7 wickets in an innings?
Pakistan leg-spinner Abrar Ahmed bowled a magical spell in his maiden international game. Playing on Day 1 of Pakistan's second Test match vs England on Friday, Abrar claimed 7 wickets for 114 runs in 22 overs.
- ANIL KUMBLE. Anil Kumble became the first Indian bowler to record a six-wicket haul in International limited overs cricket. ...
- SREESANTH. ...
- AMIT MISHRA. ...
- YUZVENDRA CHAHAL.
In limited overs, Lasith Malinga is the only one to achieve this feat.
Afghanistan cricket team's star spinner Rashid Khan has taken the fastest 100 wickets in ODI cricket so far, scalping a century of wickets in just 44 matches. The closest to him is Australian pace bowler Mitchell Starc, who managed to attain the milestone in 52 games.
1. Ricky Ponting (Australia)
As per the latest ODI rankings on 21 Oct. 2022, Shakib Al Hasan is the best all rounder in the world in ODI cricket. He has 372 rating points in the ODI all rounder rankings.
In 1912, Australian Jimmy Matthews achieved the feat twice in one game against South Africa. The only other players to achieve two hat-tricks are Australia's Hugh Trumble, against England in 1902 and 1904, Pakistan's Wasim Akram, in separate games against Sri Lanka in 1999, and England's Stuart Broad in 2011 and 2014.
POS | Player | Matches |
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3 | Makhaya Ntini | 9 |
4 | Ajit Chandila | 12 |
5 | Samuel Badree | 12 |
6 | Rohit Sharma | 213 |
The most recent hat-trick was taken by South Africa's spin bowler Keshav Maharaj against the West Indies in June 2021 at Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet, Saint Lucia.
Picking up a hat-trick in cricket is quite a rare feat in itself, but there have been few instances where the bowlers have gone a notch ahead and picked up 4 wickets in 4 balls. This is a feat so rare that it has happened only once in international cricket.
Who took 1 hat-trick in IPL?
First Hat Trick in IPL was taken on 10th May 2008 in the first edition of IPL T20 by Lakshmipathy Balaji against Punjab Kings. Thus, L Balaji become the first bowler to take hat trick in IPL. Finally Yuzvendra Chahal from Rajasthan Royals became first player to take hat trick in 2022 against KKR.
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored three hat-tricks; in January 2008, in March 2022, and in April 2022.
On March 23, 1952, though, Bill Mosienko scored a hat trick in an incredible 21 seconds - a feat that most likely will never be broken.