Afg vs Aus T20 World Cup 2024 Pat Cummins wants next hat-trick: ‘You miss this one’

After taking a hat-trick against Bangladesh in Antigua, he did it again in his last two overs at St Vincent’s. With the last ball of the 18th over he had Rashid Khan caught at long-on, and with the first ball of the 20th he dismissed Karim Janat in a similar fashion before Gulbadin Naib drove to deep midwicket during Afghanistan’s final push for runs. .

“Yeah, I remembered this one,” Cummins told the broadcaster between innings, referring to him forgetting that he had scored a hit against Bangladesh. “It’s crazy to get two in a row after playing 100 plus games for Australia.”

He could have claimed four wickets in four balls – a feat achieved by Ireland’s Curtis Campher during the 2021 World Cup – but David Warner missed a chance at deep square when Nangeyalia Kharote swung down the leg side.

Cummins joined Lasith Malinga, Tim Southee, Serbia’s Mark Pavlovic, Malta’s Waseem Abbas who scored two T20I hat-tricks. In the question of a short time between them, Pavlovic took his on consecutive days in 2023, although he had played three games in that time.

Cummins became the second player to take a hat-trick in consecutive internationals after Wasim Akram who took consecutive Tests against Sri Lanka in March 1999. Jimmy Matthews had hat-tricks in each innings of the Test match against South Africa in 1912 with both. coming that day.