Pat Cummins registers first hat-trick of ICC T20 World Cup 2024
Pat Cummins became the seventh player in the history of the T20 World Cups to take a hat-trick. He is now the second Australian bowler to record a hat-trick after Brett Lee
Australian bowler Pat Cummins registered the first hat-trick of the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 against Bangladesh in their Super Eight match in Antigua on Thursday.
Cummins became the seventh player in the history of the T20 World Cups to take a hat-trick. He is now the second Australian bowler to record a hat-trick after Brett Lee, who achieved the feat against the same opposition, in the inaugural edition of the World Cup in 2007.
Cummins returned with figures of 3/29 in his four overs.
The Australian ODI skipper joins Curtis Campher, Wanindu Hasaranga, Kagiso Rabada, Karthik Meiyappan and Josh Little in the elite list of players who took a hat-trick in T20 World Cups.
The Australian bowler achieved the feat in the 18th and 20th overs of Bangladesh’s innings. He castled, inducing an inside edge, Mahmudullah with a short of a length delivery and had Mahedi Hasan caught at deep third with the same type of delivery in the last two balls of the 18th over.
He then foxed Towhid Hridoy with a slower one in the first ball of the last over, which the batter could only scoop to a short, fine leg where Josh Hazlewood held on to a catch.
Meanwhile, Cummin’s newball partner, Mitchell Starc, became the most prolific bowler in the history of white-ball cricket when he took his 95th World Cup wicket. Starc had Tanzid Hasan clean bowled with a fullish delivery that took the toe end of the bat and crashed on to the stumps.
Starc overtook Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga to become the highest wicket taker in World Cups.
It was Starc, Cummins and Adam Zampa (2/24) who helped Australia restrict Bangladesh to 140/8 in their 20 overs before David Warner and Travis Head gave their team a good start as Australia won the match by 28 runs by the Duckworth-Lewis method.
Hat-tricks in T20 World Cups:
Brett Lee (AUS) vs Bangladesh in 2007
Curtis Campher (SA) vs Netherlands in 2021 (he took four wickets in four balls)
Wanindu Hasaranga (SL) vs South Africa in 2021
Kagiso Rabada (SA) vs England in 2021
Karthik Meiyappan (UAE) vs Sri Lanka in 2022
Josh Little (IRE) vs New Zealand in 2022
Pat Cummins (AUS) vs Bangladesh in 2024