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Photos: From Chetan Sharma to Mohammed Shami, meet hat-trick heroes of World Cup (1987 to 2019)

First Published Jun 23, 2019, 12:40 AM IST

Southampton: India fast bowler Mohammed Shami became the ninth bowler in World Cup history to take a hat-trick. He dismissed three Afghanistan batsmen in three deliveries to help India clinch an 11-run victory in the ICC World Cup 2019 on Saturday (June 22). Shami took the hat-trick in the final over of the match when Afghanistan needed 16 to win. Meet the men who have taken hat-tricks at the World Cup, from Chetan Sharma to Shami. So far, 10 hat-tricks have been taken in the World Cup with Lasith Malinga being the only one to achieve the feat twice.

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1. Chetan Sharma (India) (Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith, Ewen Chatfield) vs New Zealand, 1987. Chetan was the first bowler to take a World Cup hat-trick. All of his victims were bowled
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2. Saqlain Mushtaq (Pakistan) (Henry Olonga, Adam Huckle, Pommie Mbangwa) vs Zimbabwe, 1999
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3. Chaminda Vaas (Sri Lanka) (Hannan Sarkar, Mohammad Ashraful, Ehsanul Haque) vs Bangladesh, 2003
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4. Brett Lee (Australia) (Kennedy Otieno, Brijal Patel, David Obuya) vs Kenya, 2003. Lee poses with the ball which he took hat-trick with
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5. Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka) (Shaun Pollock, Andrew Hall, Jacques Kallis, Makhaya Ntini) vs South Africa, 2007 (four in four balls)
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6. Kemar Roach (West Indies) (Pieter Seelaar, Bernard Loots, Berend Westdijk) vs The Netherlands, 2011
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7. Malinga (Tanmay Mishra, Peter Ongondo, Shem Ngoche) vs Kenya, 2011
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8. Steven Finn (England) (Brad Haddin, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Johnson) vs Australia, 2015
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9. JP Duminy (South Africa) (Angelo Mathews, Nuwan Kulasekara, Tharindu Kaushal) vs Sri Lanka, 2015
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10. Mohammed Shami (India) (Mohammad Nabi, Aftab Alam, Mujeeb ur Rahman) vs Afghanistan, 2019
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