# List of Test cricket hat-tricks

In cricket, a hat-trick occurs when a bowler takes a wicket with each of three consecutive deliveries. Although hat-tricks can carry over between innings, meaning a batter can be dismissed twice as part of the same hat-trick, they do not carry over between matches. As of January 2025, this feat has only been achieved 48 times, by 44 different bowlers, in more than 2,000 men's Test matches, the form of the sport in which national representative teams compete in matches of up to five days' duration.
The first Test hat-trick was recorded on 2 January 1879, in only the third Test match to take place, by the Australia pace bowler Fred Spofforth, nicknamed "The Demon Bowler", who dismissed three England batters with consecutive deliveries at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The most recent Test hat-trick was taken by Noman Ali in January 2025.
This article relates to men's cricket only. There have been three hat-tricks in women's Test cricket.

## Notable Test hat-tricks
### Bowlers with multiple Test hat-tricks

A player has taken two hat-tricks in the same Test match only once. Playing for Australia against South Africa in the first match of the 1912 Triangular Tournament at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, leg spinner Jimmy Matthews took a hat-trick in South Africa's first and second innings, both taken on 28 May 1912. He completed both hat-tricks by dismissing South Africa's Tommy Ward.
Only three other cricketers have taken more than one Test hat-trick: Australian off spinner Hugh Trumble (two years apart, between the same teams at the same ground), Pakistan fast bowler Wasim Akram (just over a week apart, in consecutive matches between the same teams) and England fast bowler Stuart Broad.

### Test hat-tricks spread over two innings

Australian Merv Hughes is the only bowler to take a hat-trick where the wickets fell over three overs. This was at WACA, Perth in 1988. He took a wicket (Curtly Ambrose) with the final ball of an over. With the first ball of his next over he took the final wicket of the West Indies innings (Patrick Patterson). He then removed the opener Gordon Greenidge with the first ball of the West Indies second innings. Even more unusually, Hughes's two first-innings wickets were not consecutive, since Tim May had bowled an over himself in between Hughes's two deliveries, and took the wicket of Gus Logie.
Two other hat-tricks have taken place over two innings rather than one, both taken by West Indians against Australia – Courtney Walsh and Jermaine Lawson. Walsh's, at the Gabba in 1988, was unusual since, like Hughes' (which was in the very next Test in the series), other wickets fell between the beginning and end of the hat-trick. After dismissing Dodemaide to finish off Australia's first innings, Walsh did not open the bowling in the Australian second innings, and in fact did not bowl until Australia had already lost two wickets and were 65 for 2: then with his first two deliveries he dismissed Wood and Veletta. Lawson's hat trick was at the Kensington Oval in 2003. He removed tail-enders Lee and MacGill in successive deliveries before Australia declared their first innings (at 605/9), and then took the wicket of Langer with the first delivery of Australia's second innings.

### Other notable Test hat-tricks

* Three players have taken a hat-trick on their Test debut: English medium pace bowler Maurice Allom in 1930, New Zealand off-spinner Peter Petherick in 1976, and Australian pace bowler Damien Fleming in 1994.
* Alok Kapali took the fewest total Test wickets of any player who recorded a hat-trick, taking only six wickets in his entire Test career.
* Australian Peter Siddle is the only bowler to take a hat-trick on his birthday.
* Bangladeshi off spinner Sohag Gazi is the only male player to score a century and take a hat-trick in the same Test match.
* Sri Lankan seamer Nuwan Zoysa became the first player in the history to take a hat-trick off the first three balls of a Test match. He achieved this against Zimbabwe at Harare in November 1999, dismissing Trevor Gripper, Murray Goodwin and Neil Johnson. Indian pacer Irfan Pathan is the second bowler to take a hat-trick in the first over of a Test match, against Pakistan in 2006.
In the five-match series between a Rest of the World XI and England in 1970, a hat-trick was taken by South African Eddie Barlow in the fourth match, at Headingley (the last three of four wickets in five balls). These matches were considered to be Tests at the time, but that status was later removed.

## Test hat-tricks

Key :
| Symbol | Meaning |
| | Hat-trick taken in debut match |
| Bowler | The name of the bowler |
| For | The team for which the bowler was playing |
| Against | The team against which the bowler was playing |
| Inn. | The innings (first or second) in which the hat-trick was achieved |
| Test | The number of the Test within the overall series between the two teams |
| Dismissals | The three players dismissed by the bowler |
| Venue | The venue where the hat-trick was achieved |
| Date | The date on which the hat-trick was achieved |
| Ref. | Reference |
List of Test cricket hat-tricks :
| No. | Bowler | For | Against | Inn. | Test | Dismissals | Venue | Date |
| 1 | Fred Spofforth | Australia | England | 1 | 1/1 | Vernon Royle (b) Francis MacKinnon (b) Tom Emmett (c Tom Horan) | MCG, Melbourne | 2 January 1879 |
| 2 | Billy Bates | England | Australia | 1 | 2/3 | Percy McDonnell (b) George Giffen (c and b) George Bonnor (c Walter Read) | MCG, Melbourne | 20 January 1883 |
| 3 | Johnny Briggs | England | Australia | 2 | 2/3 | Walter Giffen (b) Jack Blackham (lbw) Sydney Callaway (c W. G. Grace) | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney | 2 February 1892 |
| 4 | George Lohmann | England | South Africa | 2 | 1/3 | Frederick Cook (b) Bonnor Middleton (b) Joseph Willoughby (c Tom Hayward) | St. George's Park, Port Elizabeth | 14 February 1896 |
| 5 | Jack Hearne | England | Australia | 2 | 3/5 | Clem Hill (b) Syd Gregory (c Archie MacLaren) Monty Noble (c Ranjitsinhji) | Headingley, Leeds | 30 June 1899 |
| 6 | Hugh Trumble (1/2) | Australia | England | 2 | 2/5 | John Gunn (c Sammy Jones) Arthur Jones (c Joe Darling) Sydney Barnes (c and b) | MCG, Melbourne | 4 January 1902 |
| 7 | Hugh Trumble (2/2) | Australia | England | 2 | 5/5 | Bernard Bosanquet (c Algy Gehrs) Plum Warner (c and b) Dick Lilley (lbw) | MCG, Melbourne | 8 March 1904 |
| 8 | Jimmy Matthews (1/2) | Australia | South Africa | 1 | 1/3 | Rolland Beaumont (b) Sid Pegler (lbw) Tommy Ward (lbw) | Old Trafford, Manchester | 28 May 1912 |
| 9 | Jimmy Matthews (2/2) | Australia | South Africa | 2 | 1/3 | Herbie Taylor (b) Reggie Schwarz (c and b) Tommy Ward (c and b) | Old Trafford, Manchester | 28 May 1912 |
| 10 | Maurice Allom | England | New Zealand | 1 | 1/4 | Tom Lowry (lbw) Ken James (c Tich Cornford) Ted Badcock (b) | Lancaster Park, Christchurch | 10 January 1930 |
| 11 | Tom Goddard | England | South Africa | 1 | 1/5 | Dudley Nourse (c and b) Norman Gordon (st Les Ames) Billy Wade (b) | Old Wanderers, Johannesburg | 26 December 1938 |
| 12 | Peter Loader | England | West Indies | 1 | 4/5 | John Goddard (b) Sonny Ramadhin (c Fred Trueman) Roy Gilchrist (b) | Headingley, Leeds | 25 July 1957 |
| 13 | Lindsay Kline | Australia | South Africa | 2 | 2/5 | Eddie Fuller (c Richie Benaud) Hugh Tayfield (lbw) Neil Adcock (c Bob Simpson) | Newlands, Cape Town | 3 January 1958 |
| 14 | Wes Hall | West Indies | Pakistan | 1 | 3/3 | Mushtaq Mohammed (lbw) Fazal Mahmood (c Garfield Sobers) Nasim-ul-Ghani (b) | Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore | 29 March 1959 |
| 15 | Geoff Griffin | South Africa | England | 1 | 2/5 | M. J. K. Smith (c John Waite) Peter Walker (b) Fred Trueman (b) | Lord's, London | 24 June 1960 |
| 16 | Lance Gibbs | West Indies | Australia | 1 | 4/5 | Ken Mackay (lbw) Wally Grout (c Garfield Sobers) Frank Misson (b) | Adelaide Oval, Adelaide | 30 January 1961 |
| 17 | Peter Petherick | New Zealand | Pakistan | 1 | 1/3 | Javed Miandad (c Richard Hadlee) Wasim Raja (c and b) Intikhab Alam (c Geoff Howarth) | Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore | 9 October 1976 |
| 18 | Courtney Walsh | West Indies | Australia | 1 & 2 | 1/5 | Tony Dodemaide (c Viv Richards) Mike Veletta (c Carl Hooper) Graeme Wood (lbw) | The Gabba, Brisbane | 18–20 November 1988 |
| 19 | Merv Hughes | Australia | West Indies | 1 & 2 | 2/5 | Curtly Ambrose (c Ian Healy) Patrick Patterson (c Tony Dodemaide) Gordon Greenidge (lbw) | WACA, Perth | 3–4 December 1988 |
| 20 | Damien Fleming | Australia | Pakistan | 2 | 2/3 | Aamer Malik (c Michael Bevan) Inzamam-ul-Haq (lbw) Saleem Malik (c Ian Healy) | Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi | 9 October 1994 |
| 21 | Shane Warne | Australia | England | 2 | 2/5 | Phil DeFreitas (lbw) Darren Gough (c Ian Healy) Devon Malcolm (c David Boon) | MCG, Melbourne | 29 December 1994 |
| 22 | Dominic Cork | England | West Indies | 2 | 4/6 | Richie Richardson (b) Junior Murray (lbw) Carl Hooper (lbw) | Old Trafford, Manchester | 30 July 1995 |
| 23 | Darren Gough | England | Australia | 1 | 5/5 | Ian Healy (c Warren Hegg) Stuart MacGill (b) Colin Miller (b) | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney | 2 January 1999 |
| 24 | Wasim Akram (1/2) | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 1 | 3/4 | Romesh Kaluwitharana (c Moin Khan) Niroshan Bandaratilleke (b) Pramodya Wickramasinghe (b) | Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore | 6 March 1999 |
| 25 | Wasim Akram (2/2) | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 2 | 4/4 | Avishka Gunawardene (c Shahid Afridi) Chaminda Vaas (b) Mahela Jayawardene (c Wajahatullah Wasti) | Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka | 14 March 1999 |
| 26 | Nuwan Zoysa | Sri Lanka | Zimbabwe | 1 | 2/3 | Trevor Gripper (lbw) Murray Goodwin (c Romesh Kaluwitharana) Neil Johnson (lbw) | Harare Sports Club, Harare | 26 November 1999 |
| 27 | Abdul Razzaq | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 1 | 2/3 | Romesh Kaluwitharana (c Moin Khan) Rangana Herath (lbw) Ravi Pushpakumara (lbw) | Galle International Stadium, Galle | 21 June 2000 |
| 28 | Glenn McGrath | Australia | West Indies | 1 | 2/5 | Sherwin Campbell (c Ricky Ponting) Brian Lara (c Stuart MacGill) Jimmy Adams (c Justin Langer) | WACA, Perth | 1 December 2000 |
| 29 | Harbhajan Singh | India | Australia | 1 | 2/3 | Ricky Ponting (lbw) Adam Gilchrist (lbw) Shane Warne (c Sadagoppan Ramesh) | Eden Gardens, Calcutta | 11 March 2001 |
| 30 | Mohammad Sami | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 1 | 3/3 | Charitha Buddhika (lbw) Nuwan Zoysa (lbw) Muttiah Muralitharan (b) | Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore | 8 March 2002 |
| 31 | Jermaine Lawson | West Indies | Australia | 1 & 2 | 3/4 | Brett Lee (b) Stuart MacGill (b) Justin Langer (lbw) | Kensington Oval, Bridgetown | 2–5 May 2003 |
| 32 | Alok Kapali | Bangladesh | Pakistan | 1 | 2/3 | Shabbir Ahmed (c Mashrafe Mortaza) Danish Kaneria (lbw) Umar Gul (lbw) | Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar | 29 August 2003 |
| 33 | Andy Blignaut | Zimbabwe | Bangladesh | 2 | 1/2 | Hannan Sarkar (lbw) Mohammad Ashraful (c sub (Travis Friend)) Mushfiqur Rahman (c Tatenda Taibu) | Harare Sports Club, Harare | 22 February 2004 |
| 34 | Matthew Hoggard | England | West Indies | 2 | 3/4 | Ramnaresh Sarwan (c Ashley Giles) Shivnarine Chanderpaul (lbw) Ryan Hinds (c Andrew Flintoff) | Kensington Oval, Bridgetown | 3 April 2004 |
| 35 | James Franklin | New Zealand | Bangladesh | 1 | 1/2 | Manjural Islam Rana (c Brendon McCullum) Mohammad Rafique (c Scott Styris) Tapash Baisya (b) | Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka | 20 October 2004 |
| 36 | Irfan Pathan | India | Pakistan | 1 | 3/3 | Salman Butt (c Rahul Dravid) Younis Khan (lbw) Mohammad Yousuf (b) | National Stadium, Karachi | 29 January 2006 |
| 37 | Ryan Sidebottom | England | New Zealand | 2 | 1/3 | Stephen Fleming (c Alastair Cook) Mathew Sinclair (c Alastair Cook) Jacob Oram (lbw) | Seddon Park, Hamilton | 8 March 2008 |
| 38 | Peter Siddle | Australia | England | 1 | 1/5 | Alastair Cook (c Shane Watson) Matt Prior (b) Stuart Broad (lbw) | Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane | 25 November 2010 |
| 39 | Stuart Broad (1/2) | England | India | 1 | 2/4 | Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c James Anderson) Harbhajan Singh (lbw) Praveen Kumar (b) | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | 30 July 2011 |
| 40 | Sohag Gazi | Bangladesh | New Zealand | 2 | 1/2 | Corey Anderson (lbw) BJ Watling (c Mushfiqur Rahim) Doug Bracewell (c Shakib Al Hasan) | Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong | 13 October 2013 |
| 41 | Stuart Broad (2/2) | England | Sri Lanka | 1 | 2/2 | Kumar Sangakkara (c Ian Bell) Dinesh Chandimal (c Alastair Cook) Shaminda Eranga (c Matt Prior) | Headingley, Leeds | 20 June 2014 |
| 42 | Rangana Herath | Sri Lanka | Australia | 1 | 2/3 | Adam Voges (c Dimuth Karunaratne) Peter Nevill (lbw) Mitchell Starc (lbw) | Galle International Stadium, Galle | 5 August 2016 |
| 43 | Moeen Ali | England | South Africa | 2 | 3/4 | Dean Elgar (c Ben Stokes) Kagiso Rabada (c Ben Stokes) Morné Morkel (lbw) | The Oval, London | 31 July 2017 |
| 44 | Jasprit Bumrah | India | West Indies | 1 | 2/2 | Darren Bravo (c KL Rahul) Shamarh Brooks (lbw) Roston Chase (lbw) | Sabina Park, Kingston | 31 August 2019 |
| 45 | Naseem Shah | Pakistan | Bangladesh | 2 | 1/2 | Nazmul Hossain Shanto (lbw) Taijul Islam (lbw) Mahmudullah Riyad (c Haris Sohail) | Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi | 9 February 2020 |
| 46 | Keshav Maharaj | South Africa | West Indies | 2 | 2/2 | Kieran Powell (c Anrich Nortje) Jason Holder (c Keegan Petersen) Joshua Da Silva (c Wiaan Mulder) | Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet | 21 June 2021 |
| 47 | Gus Atkinson | England | New Zealand | 1 | 2/3 | Nathan Smith (b) Matt Henry (c Ben Duckett) Tim Southee (lbw) | Basin Reserve, Wellington | 7 December 2024 |
| 48 | Noman Ali | Pakistan | West Indies | 1 | 2/2 | Justin Greaves (c Babar Azam) Tevin Imlach (lbw) Kevin Sinclair (c Babar Azam) | Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan | 25 January 2025 |

## By team

England and Australia combined have taken over half of all Test match hat-tricks to date, 26 of 48.
Test hat-tricks by team :
| Team | Hat-tricks | No. of bowlers |
| England | 15 | 14 |
| Australia | 11 | 9 |
| Pakistan | 6 | 5 |
| West Indies | 4 | 4 |
| India | 3 | 3 |
| Bangladesh | 2 | 2 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 2 |
| South Africa | 2 | 2 |
| Sri Lanka | 2 | 2 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 48 | 44 |

## By bowler

Bowlers with multiple hat-tricks :
| Bowler | Hat-tricks |
| Hugh Trumble | 2 |
| Jimmy Matthews | 2 |
| Wasim Akram | 2 |
| Stuart Broad | 2 |

## By type of bowling

Test hat-tricks by type of bowling :
| Bowling type | Hat-tricks | Sub-type | Hat-tricks | Bowlers |
| Fast bowling | 30 | Right-arm fast | 24 | Fred Spofforth, George Lohmann, Jack Hearne, Maurice Allom, Peter Loader, Wes Hall, Geoff Griffin, Courtney Walsh, Merv Hughes, Damien Fleming, Dominic Cork, Darren Gough, Abdul Razzaq, Glenn McGrath, Mohammad Sami, Jermaine Lawson, Andy Blignaut, Matthew Hoggard, Peter Siddle, Stuart Broad (2), Jasprit Bumrah, Naseem Shah, Gus Atkinson |
| Fast bowling | 30 | Left-arm fast | 6 | Wasim Akram (2), Nuwan Zoysa, James Franklin, Irfan Pathan, Ryan Sidebottom |
| Spin bowling | 18 | Off spin | 9 | Billy Bates, Hugh Trumble (2), Tom Goddard, Lance Gibbs, Peter Petherick, Harbhajan Singh, Sohag Gazi, Moeen Ali |
| Spin bowling | 18 | Leg spin | 4 | Jimmy Matthews (2), Shane Warne, Alok Kapali |
| Spin bowling | 18 | Left-arm orthodox spin | 4 | Noman Ali, Johnny Briggs, Rangana Herath, Keshav Maharaj |
| Spin bowling | 18 | Left-arm unorthodox spin | 1 | Lindsay Kline |
| Total | 48 | | 48 | |

## By ground

Grounds involved in multiple Test hat-tricks :
| Ground | Hat-tricks |
| Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne | 5 |
| Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore | 3 |
| Headingley, Leeds | 3 |
| Old Trafford, Manchester | 3 |
| Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi | 2 |
| Bangabandhu Stadium, Dhaka | 2 |
| The Gabba, Brisbane | 2 |
| Galle International Stadium, Galle | 2 |
| Kensington Oval, Bridgetown | 2 |
| Harare Sports Club, Harare | 2 |
| Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney | 2 |
| WACA Ground, Perth | 2 |