A double hat-trick in cricket means four wickets in four balls. It has happened eight times in men’s international cricket: once in an ODI and seven times in T20Is. The most recent was Namibia’s Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, against Malawi at Harare on 30 September 2025, and Lasith Malinga is the only bowler to have done it twice.

While a double hat-trick might suggest six wickets in six balls, in cricket terminology it refers to a bowler dismissing four batters with consecutive deliveries in the same match. No bowler has done it in a Test.

Bowlers with a double hat-trick in cricket

Bowler Team Opponent Format Venue Date Figures
Lasith Malinga Sri Lanka South Africa ODI Providence, Guyana 28 March 2007 4/54
Rashid Khan Afghanistan Ireland T20I Dehradun 24 February 2019 5/27
Lasith Malinga Sri Lanka New Zealand T20I Pallekele 6 September 2019 5/6
Curtis Campher Ireland Netherlands T20I Abu Dhabi 18 October 2021 4/26
Jason Holder West Indies England T20I Bridgetown 30 January 2022 5/27
Waseem Yaqoob Lesotho Mali T20I Dar-es-Salaam 25 September 2024 6/18
Hernan Fennell Argentina Cayman Islands T20I Buenos Aires 15 December 2024 5/14
Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton Namibia Malawi T20I Harare 30 September 2025 4/10

Men’s international cricket. Source: ESPNcricinfo’s ODI and T20I hat-trick records, with dates and figures from Statsguru, as of 29 September 2026.

Lasith Malinga v South Africa, 2007 World Cup

Malinga was the first bowler to take four wickets in four balls in international cricket, in a 2007 World Cup match against South Africa at Providence, Guyana. It is still the only instance in ODIs.

With the Proteas needing four runs off 32 balls, the Sri Lankan fast bowler dismissed Shaun Pollock and Andrew Hall with the last two deliveries of the 45th over. Returning for his next over, he removed Jacques Kallis and Makhaya Ntini with its first two balls. Sri Lanka still lost the game by one wicket with 10 balls to spare.

Lasith Malinga v New Zealand, 2019

Malinga did it again in a T20I at Pallekele in September 2019, with New Zealand chasing 126. He dismissed Colin Munro, his 100th T20I wicket and the first time any bowler had reached 100 in the format, then Hamish Rutherford, Colin de Grandhomme and Ross Taylor with the next three balls. He finished with 5/6 and remains the only bowler with two double hat-tricks.

Rashid Khan v Ireland, 2019

Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan was the first to take four in four in a T20I, six months before Malinga’s second, against Ireland at Dehradun in India in February 2019. He took 5/27.

Curtis Campher v Netherlands, 2021 T20 World Cup

Ireland’s Curtis Campher became the first bowler to take four wickets in four balls at a T20 World Cup, against the Netherlands at Abu Dhabi in October 2021.

In the 10th over he removed Colin Ackermann, Ryan ten Doeschate and Scott Edwards, which made him only the second bowler after Brett Lee to take a hat-trick at a T20 World Cup. Roelof van der Merwe then fell for a golden duck to the fourth ball.

Jason Holder v England, 2022

West Indies’ Jason Holder took four in four in the fifth T20I against England at Bridgetown on 30 January 2022. With England needing 20 runs from the last over to chase 180, he dismissed Chris Jordan, Sam Billings, Adil Rashid and Saqib Mahmood with consecutive deliveries and finished with 5/27.

Waseem Yaqoob, Hernan Fennell and Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton

Since Holder, three bowlers from Associate nations have joined the list. Waseem Yaqoob of Lesotho took 6/18 against Mali at Dar-es-Salaam in September 2024. Argentina’s Hernan Fennell, who already had a T20I hat-trick against Panama in 2021, took 5/14 against the Cayman Islands at Buenos Aires in December 2024.

The latest is Namibia’s Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, who took 4/10 against Malawi at Harare in September 2025, all four wickets in four consecutive balls.

Author: William Paul

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