Australian bowler Pat Cummins became the second Australian bowler to pick up a hat-trick in T20 world history. Pat Cummins said that he had no idea he had accomplished the feat of becoming the second Australian bowler to score a hat-trick in the T20 World Cup before it came on screen. Pat Cummins’s hat-trick and David Warner’s 34-ball half-century titled Australia’s 28-run victory over Bangladesh through the DLS method in the rain-reduced clash in the Super 8 match of the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024 at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium on Thursday(local time).The 31-year-old speedster writing history in Antigua. After this, he becomes the second Australian player and seventh overall to claim a hat-trick in an ICC T20 World Cup match.
Cummins the pacer who is back to the team after a rest now joins compatriot Brett Lee as the only Australian bowler to have taken a hat-trick in a Men’s T20 world cup, after the legendary right-armed achieved the feat in 2007 against Bangladesh.
Cummins indicated his satisfaction at the post-match presentation for taking Hridoy’s wicket and limited Bangladesh’s total of 140 runs.
Pat Cummins told in a post-match presentation ” I had no idea, then saw when it came up on the screen, set batter in, playing the innings, you never know how it will go about, so that was a big wicket(on Hridoy’s wicket) and happy to have restricted them,”
Cummins collected two quick crowns to end Australia’s 18th over and then took the wicket of Hridoy upon return to start over 20, finishing the tournament’s first hat-trick. It concluded a strong fightback for Pat Cummins with the ball, completing with figures of 29/3 off his four overs.
He added “Few hat-tricks in juniors, never, never for Australia. Nathan Ellis and Ashton Agar on the bench, have hat-tricks and joined their club. It is pretty awesome to tick that off. Good club to be part of,”
He stated that the team’s primary goal was to win and the team’s performance against Bangladesh was fairly polished. The win moved Australia to the top of Group 1 surpassing India on net run rate, now the Australian team will meet Afghanistan today.