Complete Test Cricket Hat-Tricks List

The longest format of the game of cricket has often been considered the most challenging and the ultimate test of skill and talent. Hence, the name given to this format was TEST Cricket. Those who have done well in this format have gone down in the history books of international cricket and here on this page, we’ll talk about this format.

In particular, we’ll discuss each time there’s been a Test hat-trick taken by bowlers. For those who don’t know, wickets off three consecutive deliveries to the bowler, is considered a hat-trick. While batsmen try to hit the ball in shorter formats, hat-tricks are more common there. So, Test hat-tricks are less frequent, but considered bigger achievements for sure.

Complete Test Cricket hat-tricks list

The first cricketer in the history of the game to bag a test hat-trick was Australia’s Fred Spofforth who was often considered a nightmare for batsmen, and was also referred to as ‘The Demon Bowler’. Till date, a total of 46 Test hat-tricks have been bagged, and you can check out our complete Test hat-tricks list (last updated 27th April 2024) below:

Sr.	Date	Bowler	Team vs Opponent	Victims
1	2 Jan 1879	Fred Spofforth	Australia vs England	Vernon Royle, Francis MacKinnon, Tom Emmett
2	20 Jan 1883	Billy Bates	England vs Australia	Percy McDonnell, George Giffen, George Bonnor
3	2 Feb 1892	Johnny Briggs	England vs Australia	Walter Giffen, Jack Blackham, Sydney Callaway
4	14 Feb 1896	George Lohmann	England vs South Africa	Frederick Cook, Bonnor Middleton, Joseph Willoughby
5	30 Jun 1899	Jack Hearne	England vs Australia	Clem Hill, Syd Gregory, Monty Noble
6	4 Jan 1902	Hugh Trumble	Australia vs England	John Gunn, Arthur Jones, Sydney Barnes
7	8 Mar 1904	Hugh Trumble (2)	Australia vs England	Bernard Bosanquet, Plum Warner, Dick Lilley
8	28 May 1912	Jimmy Matthews	Australia vs South Africa	Rolland Beaumont, Sid Pegler, Tommy Ward
9	28 May 1912	Jimmy Matthews (2)	Australia vs South Africa	Herbie Taylor, Reggie Schwarz, Tommy Ward
10	10 Jan 1930	Maurice Allom	England vs New Zealand	Tom Lowry, Ken James, Ted Badcock
11	26 Dec 1938	Tom Goddard	England vs South Africa	Dudley Nourse, Norman Gordon, Billy Wade
12	25 Jul 1957	Peter Loader	England vs West Indies	John Goddard, Sonny Ramadhin, Roy Gilchrist
13	3 Jan 1958	Lindsay Kline	Australia vs South Africa	Eddie Fuller, Hugh Tayfield, Neil Adcock
14	29 Mar 1959	Wes Hall	West Indies vs Pakistan	Mushtaq Mohammed, Fazal Mahmood, Nasim-ul-Ghani
15	24 Jun 1960	Geoff Griffin	South Africa vs England	Mike Smith, Peter Walker, Fred Trueman
16	30 Jan 1961	Lance Gibbs	West Indies vs Australia	Ken Mackay, Wally Grout, Frank Misson
17	9 Oct 1976	Peter Petherick	New Zealand vs Pakistan	Javed Miandad, Wasim Raja, Intikhab Alam
18	18-20 Nov 1988	Courtney Walsh	West Indies vs Australia	Tony Dodemaide, Mike Veletta, Graeme Wood
19	3-4 Dec 1988	Merv Hughes	Australia vs West Indies	Curtly Ambrose, Patrick Patterson, Gordon Greenidge
20	9 Oct 1994	Damien Fleming	Australia vs Pakistan	Aamer Malik, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Saleem Malik
21	29 Dec 1994	Shane Warne	Australia vs England	Phil DeFreitas, Darren Gough, Devon Malcolm
22	30 Jul 1995	Dominic Cork	England vs West Indies	Richie Richardson, Junior Murray, Carl Hooper
23	2 Jan 1999	Darren Gough	England vs Australia	Ian Healy, Stuart MacGill, Colin Miller

Getting a Test match hat-trick needs a lot of talent and resilience and there are as many as four (4) bowlers who have done this on multiple occasions – all of Hugh Trumble, Jimmy Matthews, Wasim Akram, and Stuart Broad have got 2 entries each in the all-time Test hat-tricks list. Trumble was the first to do so, while Akram’s two hat-tricks came over a span of only 9 days.

Three bowlers even managed to get a Test hat-trick on debut and these include Maurice Allom (England), Peter Petherick (New Zealand), and Damien Fleming (Australia). In 1988, fast bowling legend Courtney Walsh became the first to pick up a Test hat-trick across two innings, but the others to do so after him included Merv Hughes (Australia) and Jermaine Lawson (West Indies).

Sr.	Date	Bowler	Team vs Opponent	Victims
24	6 Mar 1999	Wasim Akram	Pakistan vs Sri Lanka	Romesh Kaluwitharana, Niroshan Bandaratilleke, Pramodya Wickramasinghe
25	14 Mar 1999	Wasim Akram (2)	Pakistan vs Sri Lanka	Avishka Gunawardene, Chaminda Vaas, Mahela Jayawardene
26	26 Nov 1999	Nuwan Zoysa	Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe	Trevor Gripper, Murray Goodwin, Neil Johnson
27	21 Jun 2000	Abdul Razzaq	Pakistan vs Sri Lanka	Romesh Kaluwitharana, Rangana Herath, Ravi Pushpakumara
28	1 Dec 2000	Glenn McGrath	Australia vs West Indies	Sherwin Campbell, Brian Lara, Jimmy Adams
29	11 Mar 2001	Harbhajan Singh	India vs Australia	Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne
30	8 Mar 2002	Mohammad Sami	Pakistan vs Sri Lanka	Charitha Buddhika, Nuwan Zoysa, Muttiah Muralitharan
31	2-5 May 2003	Jermaine Lawson	West Indies vs Australia	Brett Lee, Stuart MacGill, Justin Langer
32	29 Aug 2003	Alok Kapali	Bangladesh vs Pakistan	Shabbir Ahmed, Danish Kaneria, Umar Gul
33	22 Feb 2004	Andy Blignaut	Zimbabwe vs Bangladesh	Hannan Sarkar, Mohammad Ashraful, Mushfiqur Rahman
34	3 Apr 2004	Matthew Hoggard	England vs West Indies	Ramnaresh Sarwan, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ryan Hinds
35	20 Oct 2004	James Franklin	New Zealand vs Bangladesh	Manjural Islam Rana, Mohammad Rafique, Tapash Baisya
36	29 Jan 2006	Irfan Pathan	India vs Pakistan	Salman Butt, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf
37	8 Mar 2008	Ryan Sidebottom	England vs New Zealand	Stephen Fleming, Mathew Sinclair, Jacob Oram
38	25 Nov 2010	Peter Siddle	Australia vs England	Alastair Cook, Matt Prior, Stuart Broad
39	30 Jul 2011	Stuart Broad	England vs India	MS Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar
40	13 Oct 2013	Sohag Gazi	Bangladesh vs New Zealand	Corey Anderson, BJ Watling, Doug Bracewell
41	20 Jun 2014	Stuart Broad (2)	England vs Sri Lanka	Kumar Sangakkara, Dinesh Chandimal, Shaminda Eranga
42	5 Aug 2016	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka vs Australia	Adam Voges, Peter Nevill, Mitchell Starc
43	31 Jul 2017	Moeen Ali	England vs South Africa	Dean Elgar, Kagiso Rabada, Morne Morkel
44	31 Aug 2019	Jasprit Bumrah	India vs West Indies	Darren Bravo, Shamarh Brooks, Roston Chase
45	9 Feb 2020	Naseem Shah	Pakistan vs Bangaldesh	Najmul Hossain Shanto, Taijul Islam, Mahmudullah
46	21 Jun 2021	Keshav Maharaj	South Africa vs West Indies	Kieran Powell, Jason Holder, Joshua Da Silva

The international cricketing calendar wasn’t as packed as it is today when the game begin more than a century ago. Now, there’s a lot more participating countries but the longest gap between two entries into the Test hat-tricks list is 19 years, between Tom Goddard (1938) and Peter Loader (1957), both representing England.

Among the most noteworthy Test hat-tricks has to be the couple of hat-tricks by Jimmy Matthews, in the SAME TEST! On 28 May 1912, he picked up a hat-trick twice, as South Africa’s Tommy Ward was the third victim in both those hat-tricks. Those who have been a hat-trick victim and also got their own Test hat-trick include Australia’s Shane Warne and England’s Stuart Broad.

History created in St Lucia – Test hat-trick for Keshav Maharaj against West Indies. #WIvSA pic.twitter.com/LctFgfIzzi
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) June 21, 2021

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