Pat Cummins: The Super Round of the T20 World Cup is underway. In this, the Australia team in the first division and the Bangladesh team clashed today. In this match Australia team won the toss and chose to bowl first.
Accordingly, the Bangladesh team, which came into the field to bat, could not cope with the Australian team’s bowling and added runs. As a result, they lost 8 wickets in 20 overs and scored only 140 runs. Pat Cummins took 3 wickets out of the 8 wickets taken by the Australian team.
All the 3 wickets he took were ‘hat-trick’. Thus, Pat Cummins has set a record as the first bowler to take a hat-trick in the ongoing 20-over World Cup series. That is, Pat Cummins bowled the 18th over of the match.
On the 5th ball of the over, Bangladeshi player Mahmudullah Bould. Mehdi Hasan then got out in the last ball of the over. This ended the over with 2 wickets in 2 balls, and then he bowled the last and 20th over.
Cummins had a chance to take a hat-trick in the first ball of that over. He used it well and was amazing as he took the wicket of Hiraidai Scoop. Through this, Cummins took a hat-trick of wickets and set a record.
With this, former Australia player Bradley took a hat-trick against Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup in 2007. It is noteworthy that Pat Cummins has now taken a hat-trick against Bangladesh after 17 years.
Also, with this hat-trick, Pat Cummins became the 7th player in the T20 World Cup history to take a hat-trick. Before him, Bradley, Kurtis Comber, Hazaranga, Rabada, Karthik Meiyappan and Joshua Little have taken hat-trick wickets.