Hat-trick actually means to take three wickets with three consecutive deliveries. It can be in two different matches or in different over of same match.. but a no or wide ball shouldn't be bowled in between.
Following is the list of bowlers who have got hattricks in ODI cricket, with Pakistani bowlers Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq taking two hat-tricks in their One day career.
Lasith Malinga of Sri Lanka is the only bowler to take 4 wickets in 4 balls, doing it in a world cup 2007 match against South Africans, although his effort couldn't win the game for his country. Aaqib Javed is the youngest bowler to take a hattrick in one day internationals.
The most recent bowler to enter the list is Farveez Maharoof of Sri Lanka who grabbed 3 back to back wickets (last one thanks to special catch by wicket keeper Kumar Sangakkara) after Lankans had taken a runout off the last ball of previous over.. it was another example of 4 wickets off 4 balls but Maharoof contributed just 3 of them.
| List of bowlers to take hattrick of wickets in one day internationals. |
| Batsman (Country) |
Versus |
Venue |
Date |
Batsmen |
| Jalal-ud-din (Pak) |
Australia |
Hyderabad |
20 Sept 1982 |
R Marsh bowled, B Yardley c Bari, G Lawson bowled |
| Bruce Reid (Aus) |
New Zealand |
Sydney |
29 Jan 1986 |
B Blair c Mathews, E McSweeney c Border, S Gillespie bowled |
| Chetan Sharma (India) |
New Zealand |
Nagpur |
31 Oct 1987 |
K Rutherford bowled, I Smith bowled, E Chatfield bowled |
| Wasim Akram (Pak) |
West Indies |
Sharjah |
14 Oct 1989 |
J Dujon bowled, M Marshall bowled, C Ambrose bowled |
| Wasim Akram (Pak) |
Australia |
Sharjah |
4 May 1990 |
M Hughes bowled, C Rackerman bowled, T Alderman bowled |
| Kapil Dev (India) |
Sri Lanka |
Kolkata |
4 Jan 1991 |
Mahanama c More, R Ratnayke lbw, Jayasuriya c Manjrekar |
| Aaqib Javed (Pak) |
India |
Sharjah |
25 Oct 1991 |
R Shastri lbw, M Azharuddin lbw, S Tendulkar lbw |
| Danny Morrison (NZ) |
India |
Napier |
25 Mar 1994 |
Kapil Dev bowled, S Ankola bowled, N Mongia lbw |
| Waqar Younis (Pak) |
New Zealand |
East London |
12 Dec 1994 |
C Harris bowled, C Pringle bowled, de Groen bowled |
| Saqlain Mushtaq (Pak) |
Zimbabwe |
Peshawar |
3 Nov 1996 |
G Flower c Moin, J Rennie c Moin, A Whittall c S Mallik |
| Eddo Brandes (Zim) |
England |
Harare |
3 Jan 1997 |
N Knight c A Flower, J Crawley lbw, N Hussain c Flower |
| AM Stuart (Aus) |
Pakistan |
Melbourne |
16 Jan 1997 |
I Ahmed c Healy, M Wasim c Healy, M Khan c Taylor |
| Saqlain Mushtaq (Pak) |
Zimbabwe |
The Oval |
11 Jun 1999 |
H Olonga st Moin, A Huckle st Moin, M Mbangwa lbw |
| Chaminda Vaas (SL) |
Zimbabwe |
Colombo |
8 Dec 2001 |
S Carlisle c Perera, c Wishart lbw, T Taibu lbw |
| Mohammad Sami (Pak) |
West Indies |
Sharjah |
15 Feb 2002 |
R Jacobs lbw, c Collymore lbw, c Cuffy bowled |
| Chaminda Vaas (SL) |
Bangladesh |
P'burg |
14 Feb 2003 |
Sarkar bowled, Ashraful c & b, E Haque c Mahela |
| Brett Lee (Aus) |
Kenya |
Durban |
15 Mar 2003 |
K Otieno bowled, B Patel c Ponting, D Obuya bowled |
| James Anderson (Eng) |
Pakistan |
The Oval |
20 Jun 2003 |
A Razzaq c Trescothick, S Akhtar c Read, Sami bowled |
| Steve Harmison (Eng) |
India |
Nottingham |
1 Oct 2004 |
M Kaif c G Jones, L Balaji c flintoff, A Nehra c & b |
| Charl Lengeveldt (SA) |
West Indies |
Barbados |
11 May 2005 |
I Bradshaw bowled, D Powell bowled, C Collymore lbw |
| Shahadat Hossain (Bdesh) |
Zimbabwe |
Harare |
2 Aug 2006 |
Mufambisi c Mashud, Chigumbura lbw, Utseya c Mashud |
| Jerome Taylor (WI) |
Australia |
Mumbai |
18 Oct 2006 |
M Hussey bowled, B Lee lbw, G Hogg bowled |
| Shane Bond (NZ) |
Australia |
Hobart |
14 Jan 2007 |
C Whte c & b, A Symonds C & b, N Bracken bowled |
| Lasith Malinga (SL)) |
South Africa |
Guyana |
28 Mar 2007 |
Pollock bowled, Hall c Tharanga, Kallis c S'kkara, Ntini bowled |
| Andrew Flintoff (Eng) |
West Indies |
St Lucia |
3 Apr 2009 |
D Ramdin bowled, R Rampual lbw, S Benn bowled |
| Farveez Maharoof (SL) |
India |
Dambulla |
22 Jun 2010 |
R Jadeja lbw, P Kumar bowled, Z Khan c Sangakkara |
Hat-trick actually means to take three wickets with three consecutive deliveries. It can be in two different matches or in different over of same match.. but a no or wide ball shouldn't be bowled in between.