Hat Trick Heroes Trivia Quiz

Answer: Frederick Spofforth

Frederick Spofforth took his only test match hat trick in the first test of the 1878-79 series against England. The match was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the three English batsmen dismissed were Vernon Royle, Francis MacKinnon and Thomas Emmett. Australia won the match by ten wickets. Francis Allan, Thomas Garrett and Henry Boyle were the other bowlers for Australia.

Answer: William Bates

William Bates took his hat trick in the second test against Australia in the 1882-83 series, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Percy McDonnell, George Giffen and George Bonnor were the batsmen dismissed. William Bates ended up with 14 wickets in the match as England won by an innings and 27 runs. John Briggs took the third, George Lohmann took the fourth, and John Hearne took the fifth hat tricks in test cricket.

Answer: He took a hat trick in both innings

This test was played at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, as part of a triangular series. Australia won the match by an innings and 88 runs. In the first innings, Thomas Matthews took the wickets of Rolland Beaumont, Sidney Pegler and Thomas Ward.

He followed this up by taking the wickets of Herbert Taylor, Reginald Schwarz and Thomas Ward off consecutive balls in the second innings. These were the only wickets he took in the match.

Answer: Wesley Hall

West Indies won the third test of the 1959 tour of Pakistan by an innings and 156 runs. In the first innings at the Bagh-e-Jinnah ground in Lahore, Wesley Hall took a hat trick comprising the batsmen Mushtaq Mohammad, Fazal Mahmood and Nasim-Ul-Ghani. Lance Gibbs took a hat trick against Australia at the Adelaide Oval in 1961. Courtney Walsh took a hat trick against Australia at the Brisbane Cricket Ground (Woolloongabba) in 1988. Jermaine Lawson took a hat trick against Australia at Kensington Oval, Barbados, in 2003.

Answer: James Franklin

Peter Petherick took a hat trick against Pakistan on his test debut at the Gadaffi Stadium, Lahore, in 1976. In 2004, James Franklin took New Zealand's second test hat trick against Bangladesh at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dacca. He dismissed Manjural Islam Rana, Mohammad Rafique and Tapash Baisya. Richard Hadlee took 431 test wickets but no hat trick. Chris Cairns took 218 test wickets but no hat trick.

Answer: England

Geoffrey Griffin took his hat trick against England in the second test at Lord's, London, in the 1960 series. He dismissed Michael Smith, Peter Walker and Fred Trueman. However, it was not enough to stop England from winning by an innings and 73 runs.

Answer: Sri Lanka

Wasim Akram took both hat tricks against Sri Lanka in March, 1999, as part of the Asian Championship. The first was at Gadaffi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan, where the match was drawn. The second was at Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dacca, Bangladesh, where Pakistan won by an innings and 175 runs.

Answer: Stephen Waugh

In the second test match at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, Harbhajan Singh dismissed Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist and then Shane Warne in successive deliveries. India won the test by 171 runs. Stephen Waugh was the non-striking batsman.

Answer: Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar, Pakistan

In August 2003, Alok Kapali captured the wickets of Shabbir Ahmed, Danish Kaneria and Umar Gul to record Bangladesh's first test match hat trick. Despite Alok Kapali's efforts, Pakistan won the second test of the series by nine wickets.

Answer: 2004

Zimbabwe became the tenth test playing nation to achieve a hat trick when Andy Blignaut captured three wickets in three balls at the Harare Sports Club. Hannan Sarkar, Mohammed Ashraful and Mushfiqur Rahman were the three batsmen to fall to his bowling in February, 2004. Zimbabwe went on to win the match by 183 runs.