ICC ODI Cricket Records and Statistics: List of Hat Tricks in ODI
As for hat-tricks, there have been 49 in ODIs.Australians have scored twenty hat tricks across all formats. Pakistan and Sri Lanka are tied for second with 16 combined hat-tricks.
Image Credit: twitter.com/@ICCIn cricket, a hat trick means getting three wickets in three consecutive deliveries. Cricket has been played for over a hundred years, but only some bowlers have gotten hat tricks. The Cricket World Cup Hat-Tricks make a hat-trick even more special. Hat tricks in ODI world cup games are always unique. India’s Chetan Sharma got the first Hat-Trick in 1987 when India played New Zealand. Lasith Malinga is the only bowler to have gotten a hat-trick in two World Cups. In the 2007 world cup, he got his first hat trick against South Africa. In that game, he took four wickets in a row with four consecutive deliveries. Malinga’s second hat trick was against Kenya at the 2011 World Cup.
Check out these five bowlers who have all picked hat tricks in the past and entered their names into the record books. Take a look:
| No. | Bowler | Team | Span | No. of Hat-tricks |
| 1 | Lasith Malinga | Sri Lanka | 2004-2019 | 3 |
| 2 | Kuldeep Yadav | India | 2017-2021 | 2 |
| 3 | Trent Boult | New Zealand | 2012-2021 | 2 |
| 4 | Wasim Akram | Pakistan | 1984-2003 | 2 |
| 5 | Saqlain Mushtaq | Pakistan | 1995-2004 | 2 |
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- Lasith Malinga
Year: 2004-2019
Lasith Malinga is one of the greatest cricket bowlers. He has had many great stretches and wowed fans throughout his long career. ODI hat-tricks leader Lasith Malinga. He has the most one-day international hat tricks with three. Malinga scored his maiden World Cup hat-trick against South Africa in 2007.
Lasith Malinga’s spell will live on in cricket fans’ memories. Lasith Malinga almost won the game with four wickets in four deliveries. He took 6 for 38 against Kenya in the 2011 World Cup, his second hat trick. In 2011, he took Mitchell Johnson, John Hastings, and Xavier Doherty for his third hat-trick against Australia in Colombo.
- Kuldeep Yadav
Year: 2017-2019
Kuldeep Yadav is the only Indian player to have ever taken two hat-tricks in an international cricket match. He is currently ranked third among the top five bowlers with the most hat-tricks in one-day internationals. Kuldeep Yadav’s performance in international cricket over the past few years has seen him make significant advancements in his game.
In 2017, he scored his first hat trick while playing Australia at Eden Gardens. The game was in Australia. His first hat trick in an international competition came when he dismissed Matthew Wade, Ashton Agar, and Pat Cummins with three consecutive balls. Kuldeep completed his second hat trick of 2019 against the batters for the Windies while playing at Visakhapatnam. He successfully got Shai Hope, Jason Holder, and Alzarri Joseph out of the game.
- Trent Boult
Year: 2018-2019
Trent Boult one of the best players in the New Zealand setup in recent history, has always taken the reins and set the tone. The man who thrives in the biggest games has already scored two hat tricks in one-day internationals. Against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi in 2018, Boult took three wickets in one over, including Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam, and Mohammad Hafeez, as New Zealand won by 47 runs. This was the first of Boult’s two hat tricks. Boult became only the 10th bowler in World Cup history to take a hat-trick, and he did so in the second ODI at the “home of cricket,” Lord’s, against their trans-Tasman rivals, Australia, made it even more impressive. With the dismissal of Usman Khawaja, Mitchell Starc, and Jason Behrendorff, Boult has now taken a perfect 3-0 record.
- Wasim Akram
Year: 1989-1990
Akram has achieved two hat-tricks at the highest level possible in One-Day Internationals (ODIs). His ODI hat-tricks came in 1989 and 1990 at Sharjah, the venue for both of those matches.
Wasim Akram scored a hat-trick in a one-day match for the second time in the past six months, and Pakistan defeated Australia in the final of the Sharjah tournament by a score of 36 runs. Wasim ended things by bowling Merv Hughes, Carl Rackemann, and Terry Alderman in rapid succession. Wasim is the only player to have ever accomplished this feat in both one-day and five-match formats of international cricket.
- Saqlain Mushtaq
Year:1996-1999
The legendary Pakistani spinner Saqlain Mushtaq caused much trouble for batters during his time on the field. Mushtaq single-handedly won many games for Pakistan. Two appearances are on the select list since the off-spinner took a hat trick in an ODI. In a 1996 match against Zimbabwe in Peshawar, Mushtaq claimed his first three scalps by dismissing Grant Flower, John Rennie, and Andy Whittet. Mushtaq’s second hat trick was likewise recorded against Zimbabwe, but this time it occurred in the 1999 World Cup. He got rid of Henry Olonga, Adam Huckle, and Pommie Mbangwa, joining an exclusive club of bowlers who have achieved this feat in a World Cup.
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