List of Hat-Trick Wickets in Test Matches
The test cricket have completed around 142 years of its journey. The first test match was played between England and Australia from 15 to19 March 1877.
As of now around 12 teams are test playing nations. Currently, India is leading ICC Men's Test Team Rankings with 119 ratings, New Zealand is on second rank.
The hat-trick of wickets is a special phenomenon in the test match. It is considered the rarest feat in the test match. There are 44 hat-trick of wickets have been taken in test matches so far.
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne is the only ground that witnessed 5 hat-tricks in test matches.
The first Test hat-trick was claimed by the Australian pace bowler ‘Fred Spofforth’ against England on 2 January 1879. The latest Test hat-trick was earned by the Indian bowler Jasprit Bumrah against West Indies on 31 August 2019.
Before Bumrah two other Indians Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan have achieved this feat in the test match.
Now let’s have a look on the list of Hat-Trick Wickets in test matches;
| Player name |
Opponent |
Hat trick date |
| 1. Fred Spofforth (Australia) |
England |
2 January 1879 |
| 2. Billy Bates (England) |
Australia |
20 January 1883 |
| 3. Johnny Briggs (England) |
Australia |
2 February 1892 |
| 4. George Lohmann (England) |
South Africa |
14 February 1896 |
| 5. Jack Hearne (England) |
Australia |
30 June 1899 |
| 6. Hugh Trumble (Australia) |
England |
4 January 1902 |
| 7. Hugh Trumble (Australia) |
England |
8 March 1904 |
| 8. Jimmy Matthews (Australia) |
South Africa |
28 May 1912 |
| 9. Maurice Allom (England) |
New Zealand |
10 January 1930 |
| 10. Tom Goddard (England) |
South Africa |
26 Dec. 1938 |
| 11. Peter Loader(England) West |
Indies |
25 July 1957 |
| 12. Lindsay Kline (Australia) |
South Africa |
3 January 1958 |
| 13. Wes Hall (West Indies) |
Pakistan |
29 March 1959 |
| 14. Geoff Griffin (South Africa) |
England |
24 June 1960 |
| 15. Lance Gibbs(West Indies) |
Australia |
30 January 1961 |
| 16. Peter Petherick (New Zealand) |
Pakistan |
9 October 1976 |
| 17. Courtney Walsh (West Indies) |
Australia |
18–20 Nov. 1988 |
| 18. Merv Hughes (Australia) |
West Indies |
3–4 Dec. 1988 |
| 19. Damien Fleming (Australia) |
Pakistan |
9 October 1994 |
| 20. Shane Warne (Australia) |
England |
29 Dec. 1994 |
| 21. Dominic Cork (England) |
West Indies |
30 July 1995 |
| 22. Darren Gough (England) |
Australia |
2 January 1999 |
| 23. Wasim Akram (Pakistan) |
Sri Lanka |
6 March 1999 |
| 24. Wasim Akram (Pakistan) |
Sri Lanka |
14 March 1999 |
| 25. Nuwan Zoysa (Sri Lanka) |
Zimbabwe |
26 November 1999 |
| 26. Abdul Razzaq (Pakistan) |
Sri Lanka |
21 June 2000 |
| 27. Glenn McGrath ( Australia) |
West Indies |
1 Dec. 2000 |
| 28. Harbhajan Singh(India) |
Australia |
11 March 2001 |
| 29. Mohammad Sami (Pakistan) |
Sri Lanka |
8 March 2002 |
| 30. Jermaine Lawson (West Indies) |
Australia |
2–5 May 2003 |
| 31. Alok Kapali (Bangladesh) |
Pakistan |
29 August 2003 |
| 32. Andy Blignaut (Zimbabwe) |
Bangladesh |
22 February 2004 |
| 33. Matthew Hoggard (England) |
West Indies |
3 April 2004 |
| 34. James Franklin (New Zealand) |
Bangladesh |
20 October 2004 |
| 35. Irfan Pathan (India) |
Pakistan |
29 January 2006 |
| 36.Ryan Sidebottom (England) |
New Zealand |
8 March 2008 |
| 37.Peter Siddle (Australia) |
England |
25 November 2010 |
| 38. Stuart Broad (England) |
India |
30 July 2011 |
| 39. Sohag Gazi (Bangladesh) |
New Zealand |
13 October 2013 |
| 40. Stuart Broad (England) |
Sri Lanka |
20 June 2014 |
| 41. Rangana Herath (Sri Lanka) |
Australia |
5 August 2016 |
| 42. Moeen Ali (England) |
South Africa |
31 July 2017 |
| 43. Jasprit Bumrah (India) |
West Indies |
31 August 2019 |
Some Interesting Records of Hat-trick in Test Matches
1. England’s cricket players have earned most hat-tricks in the test matches. There are 14 hat-tricks of wickets in matches have been claimed by the 13 players. Followed by the 9 Australian players who claimed 11 hat-tricks.
2. Sohag Gazi (Bangladesh) is the only player who take a hat-trick and scored a century in the same test match.
3. There are 3 players have taken hat-trick on their Test debut. Their name are; English medium pace bowler Maurice Allom (1930), New Zealand's Peter Petherick (1976), and Australian pace bowler Damien Fleming in 1994.
4. There are 4 bowlers have taken more than one hat-trick in test cricket.
5. Wasim Akram (Pakistan) had took two hat-tricks in the duration of nine days in 1999.
So this was the complete list of players who have taken hat-trick in test matches.
List of cricketers who have taken hat-trick wicket in ODI