page_title: List of Test cricket hat-tricks
section_title: Test hat-tricks
hierarchical_section_title: List of Test cricket hat-tricks / Test hat-tricks
caption_attribution_description: William Bates
context_page_description: In the sport of cricket, a hat-trick is an occasion where a bowler takes three wickets in consecutive deliveries, dismissing three different batsmen. As of February 2020, this feat has only been achieved 45 times in more than two thousand 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 Australian pace bowler Fred Spofforth, nicknamed "The Demon Bowler", who dismissed three English batsmen with consecutive deliveries at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The most recent hat-trick was taken by Pakistan's pace bowler Naseem Shah against Bangladesh in February 2020.
  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.
caption: Billy Bates was the first player to take a hat-trick for England, four years after Spofforth achieved the feat.
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