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Australian fast bowler Pete Cummins created history by becoming the first in the world to take 2 hat-tricks in a T20 World Cup in 3 days and the 5th bowler in the world to take 3 wickets twice in 3 balls in the shortest format.
Afghanistan defeated Australia for the first time in the history of cricket in the important match of the Super 8 stage of the ongoing ICCT20 World Cup 2024 between America and West Indies. While playing, he scored 148 runs in the allotted 20 overs, while in reply, the entire Australian team was bowled out for 127 runs, thus losing by 21 runs.
While Afghanistan made history by winning the match, Australia’s fast bowler Pete Cummins also made a unique record. After dismissing Rashid Khan on the last ball of the 18th over, Kareem guided Jannat to the pavilion on the first ball of the 20th over and dismissed Gulbuddin Naib on the very next ball.
In the match against Afghanistan, he could have taken four wickets in four balls, but David Warner dropped a catch at deep square, while earlier the feat of taking four wickets in four balls was achieved by Ireland’s Curtis Kaempfer in the 2021 T20 World Cup. was performed during
After Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga, New Zealand’s Tim Southee, Serbia’s Mark Pavlovic, and Malta’s Wasim Abbas, Pete Cummins also joined the list of players who have scored 2 hat-tricks in T20 cricket.
Pete Cummins became the second player in the world to take 2 hat-tricks in 2 consecutive matches after Wasim Akram, Pakistan’s star bowler took 2 hat-tricks in 2 consecutive Tests against Sri Lanka in March 1999.
His predecessor Jimmy Mathews took 2 hat-tricks on the same day in both innings of a Test match against South Africa in 1912.
