The 2024 T20 World Cup has seen everything from low scores to big hitting to super overs, and now even a bowling hat-trick. And it’s no surprise that an Australian bowler in prime form has put his name in the T20 World Cup hat-tricks list. We’re talking about Pat Cummins who has been working his magic across all formats in the last couple of years in international cricket.
Cummins bowled an expensive first over for 12 runs but the best in the business usually make good comebacks. Similarly, the captain in ODI and Test formats picked up crucial wickets in the death overs, entrusted with bowling the 18th and 20th overs of the Bangladesh innings. He picked up 2 wickets off the final 2 deliveries of the 18th over (his third).
Pat Cummins hat-trick in T20 World Cup 2024
Cummins picked up a wicket in the first ball of the final over, which was also the fourth over of his own spell. The celebrations were subdued because the hat-trick has broken up into two different overs. He ended with figures of 3/29 after going for 0/12 in his first over, helping restrict Bangladesh to 140/8 in both teams’ respective first games in the Super 8’s stage.
He also became the second Australian to enter the T20 World Cup hat-tricks list, after Brett Lee did so many years ago in the 2007 T20 World Cup. Lee became the first person in ICC T20 World Cup history to bag a hat-trick, and that was incidentally also against the same opposition, Bangladesh. Cummins joins the elite list in this format, without having played a single T20I in 2023 fir Australia!
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His victims on the day included Mahmudullah, Mahedi Hasan, and Towhid Hridoy. All these batsmen were capable of putting on an additional 10-15 runs on the board, which meant Australia went into the break high on confidence. Rain came in to disturb play during the chase and Australia managed an easy 28 run win by the DLS method, 72/2 when rain stopped play for the last time.
Australia is always a favourite when it comes to major international competitions, and they’re proving the same once again. They thumped Bangladesh in their first encounter of the Super 8s and also have games against India and Afghanistan lined up before the knockout stages begin.
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