Double Hat Trick Meaning In Cricket

November 27 2010 300am.

Double hat trick meaning in cricket. Noun the retiring of three batsmen with three consecutive balls by a bowler in cricket. Best Hat tricks In Cricket History By Indian Bowlers Ultimate Best Hattricks by Indian Players1. Malinga makes history with devastating double hat-trick.

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. Three in three balls - but no hat-trick. Trumbles double hat-trick still a unique Ashes feat.

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. The only instance in Test cricket before Wasim Akrams feat of a double hat-trick was in 1912 by an Australian T. There have been only 41 hat tricks till date in Test cricket.

Middlesex was eventually bundled-out for 121. Double normally the scoring of a 1000 runs and the taking of 100 wickets in the same season. Chetan Sharma 1st World Cup Hat-Trick in 19872.

Damien Fleming Australia v. 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. Achieved once in international cricket by Lasith Malinga at the 2007 World Cup.

Malinga is the only man to take two Cricket World Cup hat-tricks and hes also the only man to take a double hat-trick four wickets in four balls. Hat trick later came to be used for threefold feats in other sports such as horse racing soccer baseball and hockey. While a hat-trick is a rare feat in cricket these five memorable hat-tricks are even rarer.