If you’ve read the headline, we’ll first tell you that this isn’t even the first hat-trick of the 2021 T20 World Cup in UAE. During the Qualifiers, we had a double hat-trick (4 wickets in 4 balls) from Ireland’s Curtis Campher followed by a hat-trick from superstar Sri Lankan spinner, Wanindu Hasaranga. And today, we saw South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada pick up a T20 World Cup hat-trick.
It would’ve been a bitter sweet one for him because if multiple reasons. Firstly, they ended the Super 12s with 4 wins in their 5 games but because of a lower net run rate than Australia and England, had to pack their bags and go home, despite beating England today. Next, he had a very poor day with the ball, being hit for 0/45 in 3 overs before he was given the responsibility to bowl the 20th over, with 14 to defend.
In his third over, he was smashed for three consecutive sixes by middle order batsman Liam Livingstone and that would’ve broken his confidence But he came back strong in the final over, getting wickets off the first three deliveries of the over. He picked up Chris Woakes on the boundary, then Eoin Morgan on the boundary and finally Chris Jordan on the boundary as well.
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After that, England needed 14 runs to win in 3 balls and it was more or less South Africa’s game but Kagiso couldn’t manage more than one bright smile to celebrate the milestone, as his teammates rushed up to congratulate him. He gave three singles off the next three balls of the over and South Africa won by 10 runs, ending England’s unbeaten streak in the T20 World Cup 2021.
As for Rabada, he becomes the first South African to get a hat-trick in T20I as well as ODI formats, while also becoming the first from his country to get a World Cup in the T20 World Cup. This comes a few hours after Rassie van der Dussen registered the highest score by a South African in the T20 World Cup history. For more cricketing updates, stay tuned to ReadScoops.com…
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