Australian JP Faulkner’s hat trick against Sri Lanka at Col-RPS on 24.08.16 was in a losing cause to provide the eighth occasion of a bowler’s hat trick going in vain in the history of one day games. All such occasions are listed below

No	Player	Match	Venue	Date	Res
1	Shahadat Hossain	Ban v Zim	Harare	02.08.06	L
2	SE Bond	NZl v Aus	Hobart	14.01.07	L
3	SL Malinga	Srl v RSA	Guyana	28.03.07	L
4	DT Christian	Aus v Srl	Melbourne	02.03.12	L
5	CJ McKay	Aus v Eng	Cardiff	14.09.13	L
6	P Utseya	Zim v RSA	Harare	29.08.14	L
7	ST Finn	Eng v Aus	Melbourne	14.02.15	L
8	JP Faulkner	Aus v Srl	Col-RPS	24.08.16	L

JP Faulkner became the third Australian bowler to witness his hat trick going in vain after DT Christian and CJ Mckay. The performance of these three bowlers are listed below

No	Player	Match	Venue	Date	Res
1	CJ McKay	Aus v Eng	Cardiff	14.09.13	L
2	DT Christian	Aus v Srl	Melbourne	02.03.12	L
3	JP Faulkner	Aus v Srl	Col-RPS	24.08.16	L

JP Faulkner became the second Australian bowler to witness his hat trick going in vain against Sri Lanka after DT Christian. DT Christian’s effort had goin in vain at Melbourne on 02.02.13. The performance of these two bowlers are listed below

No	Player	Match	Venue	Date	Res
1	DT Christian	Aus v Srl	Melbourne	02.03.12	L
2	JP Faulkner	Aus v Srl	Col-RPS	24.08.16	L