It isn’t usually {that a} ‘double hat-trick‘ is completed in a sport of cricket, which implies a bowler taking 4 wickets in 4 consecutive balls, however Argentina‘s Hernan Fennell achieved the rarest-of the-rare feat in a match of the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup Sub Regional Americas Qualifier.
The 36-year-old right-arm pacer registered his identify in cricket’s historical past books within the match in opposition to Cayman Islands, changing into solely the sixth participant within the sport’s historical past to take a ‘double hat-trick’.
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His victims had been Troy Taylor, Alistair Ifill, Ronald Ebanks and Alessandro Morris, as he dismantled the opposition batting lineup. The excellent bowling efficiency culminated in spectacular figures of 5 for 14.
With this achievement, Fennell joined an elite group of T20I bowlers who’ve secured double hat-tricks, alongside Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan, Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga, Eire’s Curtis Campher, West Indies’ Jason Holder and Lesotho’s Waseem Yaqoobr.
Fennell’s landmark second additionally made him the sixth bowler to take a number of hat-tricks in T20Is. His earlier hat-trick got here in opposition to Panama in Antigua throughout the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup Americas Area Qualifier occasion in 2021.
The unique listing of gamers with a number of T20I hat-tricks consists of Malta’s Waseem Abbas, Australia’s Pat Cummins, Serbia’s Mark Pavlovic, New Zealand’s Tim Southee, Sri Lanka’s Malinga and now Fennell.
However Fennell will rue the truth that his file did not are available in a successful trigger, as Argentina had been bowled out for 94 whereas chasing Cayman Islands’ 116 to lose the match by 22 runs.
