- Hat-trick completed in three different overs
It is another very rare instance of a hat-trick that a bowler completes this memorable feat in three different overs. It is naturally only possible in the first-class cricket (including Test cricket) where a team gets two innings bat/bowl.
In international cricket, it happened only once till date and that was in Test cricket. Australian fast bowler, Merv Hughes had completed a hat-trick in three different overs against West Indies at Perth in December 1988.
At first, Hughes dismissed Curtly Ambrose in the last ball of his 36th over and then he dismissed Patrick Patterson on his first ball of his next over which had also ended West Indies’ first innings. Then in the first ball of the second innings of West Indies, Hughes got the wicket of Gordon Greenidge thus completing his hat-trick.
It was so unusual hat-trick that Hughes had not realized about that incredible feat at that moment and had to be told about it later. However, there were some hat-tricks in the first-class cricket which are spread over two innings.