Watch: Pat Cummins registers first hat-trick of T20 World Cup 2024

TOI Sports Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Jun 21, 2024, 08:16 IST

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Pat Cummins took a hat-trick against Bangladesh in their T20 World Cup Super 8 clash at Antigua on Friday. Cummins, Australia's Test and ODI captain, dismissed Mahmudullah, Mahedi Hasan, Towhid Hridoy to become the fourth Australian to take a hat-trick in T20Is. Cummins became only the second Aussie, after Brett Lee, to take a hat-trick in the T20 World Cup.

Watch: Pat Cummins registers first hat-trick of T20 World Cup 2024

Pat Cummins celebrates his hat-trick against Bangladesh. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images)

NEW DELHI: Just a few hours after he was presented the Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for winning the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year award 2023, Pat Cummins took a hat-trick against Bangladesh in their T20 World Cup Super 8 clash at Antigua on Friday.
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Cummins, Australia's Test and ODI captain, dismissed Mahmudullah, Mahedi Hasan, Towhid Hridoy to become the fourth Australian to take a hat-trick in T20Is.

Bowling the 18th over of Bangladesh innings, Cummins first got rid of Mahmudullah on the penultimate delivery as he edged a slower ball onto his stumps off the inside edge.

Mahedi Hasan played the next ball straight into the hands of Adam Zampa at third man for a first ball duck.
Towhid Hridoy scooped the first ball of the next over into the hands of Josh Hazlewood at short fine-leg as Cummins became only the second Aussie, after Brett Lee, to take a hat-trick in the T20 World Cup.

Riding on the fine bowling performance, Australia restricted Bangladesh to 140/8.
HAT-TRICKS IN MEN'S T20 WORLD CUP:

Brett Lee (AUS) vs BAN, Cape Town, 2007
Curtis Campher (IRE) vs NED, Abu Dhabi, 2021
Wanindu Hasaranga (SL) vs SA, Sharjah, 2021
Kagiso Rabada (SA) vs ENG, Sharjah, 2021
Karthik Meiyappan (UAE) vs SL, Geelong, 2022
Joshua Little (IRE) vs NZ, Adelaide, 2022
Pat Cummins (AUS) vs BAN, Antigua, 2024

AUSTRALIA BOWLERS TO TAKE HAT-TRICKS IN T20Is:

Brett Lee vs Bangladesh, Cape Town, 2007
Ashton Agar vs South Africa, Johannesburg, 2020
Nathan Ellis vs Bangladesh, Mirpur, 2021
Pat Cummins vs Bangladesh, Antigua, 2024

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