Scoring a boundary, six, fifty or a century does instill joy among fans and cricketers alike but that magic is only done with the bat and there is another side of the game which has its own importance which is bowler’s trickery with the ball.
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Bowlers often get a four-wicket or five-wicket haul in the world cup but nothing can be compared to the satisfaction and delight which is received after claiming a hat-trick – getting three wickets in three balls.
Not many have experienced that feeling and the first man to taste it was India’s Chetan Sharma when he took the hat-trick against New Zealand in 1987 World Cup.
It took 12 years for any bowler to take hat-trick in a world cup after its advent in 1975 and the ecstasy was next lived further 12 years down the road when the inventor of ‘doosra’ Saqlain Mushtaq baffled Zimbabwe in 1999.
By numbers two hat-tricks in six world cup and the span of 24 years but the 2003 world cup saw two bowlers achieveing the feat. Sri Lankan Chaminda Vaas achieved the bowling nirvana against Bangladesh as he ended up with six wickets while Brett Lee followed it soon against Kenya.
Lasith Malinga then created history of his own in 2007 when he got four wickets in four balls against South Africa, before becoming the first man to take a second World Cup hat-trick, against Kenya in 2011.
West Indian Kemar Roach also had the pleasure of a threesome in 2011 event when he picked up with six wickets.
2015 could see the record of two hat-tricks in one world cup upstaged.
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