Bowlers with most ODI hat tricks in career

Bowlers with most ODI hat tricks in career

There are some of the fastest bowlers in the world renowned for their rapid-fire ability and there are these history makers. Bowlers with ODI hat tricks in career are the players who did the job for their sides in just half an over. Typically, let’s say, with three specialist bowlers included in a team, each gets apportioned with the responsibility of getting a minimum of three wickets. Though this is never the case but for the moment let’s set the same standard and when a bowler has taken three wickets on three ball, he has pretty much done his job. The trend of making ODI hat tricks is not an ancient one as the first ever hat trick maker did the same in 1982-83. The former Pakistani seamer Jalal-ud-Din was the first player to record his name in the earliest ODI hat tricks list. Born on June 12, 1959, Jalal-ud-Din only played eight One Day International and six test matches. As for the first hat trick is concerned it as just his second ODI game when he dismissed Rod Marsh, Bruce Yardley and Geoff Lawson on three successive deliveries in Hyderabad in 1982-83.

Interestingly, ODI hat tricks list is also filled with the further remarkable stats. Lasith Malinga is the only bowler so far that has completed the hat trick of ODI hat tricks in his career. The sling arm wicket taking specialist has done the job against South Africa, Kenya and Australia on three different occasions in ODI games. Apart from his heroics, there are some bowlers in cricket history with two ODI hat tricks on their name. The former Pakistani legend who also features in most test wicket takers list – the king of swing Wasim Akram comes atop of them with two of his hat trick benchmarks against West Indies and Australia. Similarly the former Sri Lankan bowler Chaminda Vaas is yet another entry in the list with two ODI hat tricks in his career.

Saqlain Mushtaq, the former Pakistani spin bowler who is busy coaching the present generation of ball-turners around the globe has also taken two hat tricks in his impressive cricket career. The list is full with many past and present best cricket bowlers however all of them with the feat accomplished once in their career span. No wonders, modern day game is much favored to the batsmen still there are some expert bowlers ready to strike whenever given the opportunity. The full list of bowlers with one or more ODI hat tricks goes as under.

Bowlers with most ODI hat tricks in career

Player	Match	Venue	Date
Jalal-ud-Din	Pakistan v Australia	Hyderabad (P)	20/09/1982
BA Reid	Australia v New Zealand	Sydney	29/01/1986
C Sharma	India v New Zealand	Nagpur	31/10/1987
Wasim Akram	Pakistan v West Indies	Sharjah	14/10/1989
Wasim Akram	Pakistan v Australia	Sharjah	04/05/1990
Kapil Dev	India v Sri Lanka	Calcutta	04/01/1991
Aaqib Javed	Pakistan v India	Sharjah	25/10/1991
DK Morrison	New Zealand v India	Napier	25/03/1994
Waqar Younis	Pakistan v New Zealand	East London	19/12/1994
Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan v Zimbabwe	Peshawar	03/11/1996
EA Brandes	Zimbabwe v England	Harare	03/01/1997
AM Stuart	Australia v Pakistan	Melbourne	16/01/1997
Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan v Zimbabwe	The Oval	11/06/1999
WPUJC Vaas	Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe	Colombo (SSC)	08/12/2001
Mohammad Sami	Pakistan v West Indies	Sharjah	15/02/2002
WPUJC Vaas	Sri Lanka v Bangladesh	Pietermaritzburg	14/02/2003
B Lee	Australia v Kenya	Durban	15/03/2003
JM Anderson	England v Pakistan	The Oval	20/06/2003
SJ Harmison	England v India	Nottingham	01/09/2004
CK Langeveldt	South Africa v West Indies	Barbados	11/05/2005
Shahadat Hossain	Bangladesh v Zimbabwe	Harare	02/08/2006
JE Taylor	West Indies v Australia	Mumbai (BS)	18/10/2006
SE Bond	New Zealand v Australia	Hobart	14/01/2007
SL Malinga	Sri Lanka v South Africa	Guyana	28/03/2007
A Flintoff	England v West Indies	St Lucia	03/04/2009
MF Maharoof	Sri Lanka v India	Dambulla	22/06/2010
Abdur Razzak	Bangladesh v Zimbabwe	Dhaka	03/12/2010
KAJ Roach	West Indies v Netherlands	Delhi	28/02/2011
SL Malinga	Sri Lanka v Kenya	Colombo (RPS)	01/03/2011
SL Malinga	Sri Lanka v Australia	Colombo (RPS)	22/08/2011
DT Christian	Australia v Sri Lanka	Melbourne	02/03/2012
CJ McKay	Australia v England	Cardiff	14/09/2013
Rubel Hossain	Bangladesh v New Zealand	Dhaka	29/10/2013
Prosper Utseya	Zimbabwe v South Africa	Harare	29/08/2014
Taijul Islam	Bangladesh v Zimbabwe	Dhaka	01/12/2014
ST Finn	England v Australia	Melbourne	14/02/2015
JP Duminy	South Africa v Sri Lanka	Sydney	18/03/2015
K Rabada	South Africa v Bangladesh	Mirpur	10/07/2015