KA Maharaj of South Africa performed the Hat trick against West Indies in the just concluded test Gros Islet to provide the 46^th occasion of a bowler performing the hat trick in the annals of test cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below. KA Maharaj became the 44^th bowler to perform the feat. TJ Matthews of Australia and Wasim Akram have performed the feat on two occasions.

KA Maharaj became the second South African bowler to perform the hat trick after GM Griffin. GM Griffin had performed the feat at Lord’

No	Bowler	Match	Ground	Season
1	FR Spofforth	Aus v Eng	Melbourne	1878-79
2	W Bates	Eng v Aus	Melbourne	1882-83
3	J Briggs	Eng v Aus	Sydney	1891-92
4	GA Lohmann	Eng v SAF	Port Elizabeth	1895-96
5	JT Hearne	Eng v Aus	Leeds	1899
6	H Trumble	Aus v Eng	Melbourne	1901-02
7	H Trumble	Aus v Eng	Melbourne	1903-04
8	TJ Matthews  {FI}	Aus v SAF	Manchester	1912
9	TJ Matthews  {SI}	Aus v SAF	Manchester	1912
10	MJC Allom	Eng v NZl	Christchurch	1929-30
11	TWJ Goddard	Eng v SAF	Johannesburg	1938-39
12	PJ Loader	Eng v Win	Leeds	1957
13	LF Kline	Aus v SAF	Cape Town	1957-58
14	WW Hall	Win v Pak	Lahore	1958-59
15	GM Griffin	SAF v Eng	Lord’s	1960
16	LR Gibbs	Win v Aus	Adelaide	1960-61
17	PJ Petherick	NZl v Pak	Lahore	1976-77
18	CA Walsh	Win v Aus	Brisbane	1988-89
19	MG Hughes	Aus v Win	Perth	1988-89
20	DW Fleming	Aus v Pak	Rawalpindi	1994-95
21	SK Warne	Aus v Eng	Melbourne	1994-95
22	DG Cork	Eng v Win	Manchester	1995
23	D Gough	Eng v Aus	Sydney	1998-99
24	Wasim Akram	Pak v Srl	Lahore	1998-99
25	Wasim Akram	Pak v Srl	Dhaka	1998-99
26	DNT Zoysa	Srl v Zim	Harare	1999-2000
27	Abdul Razzaq	Pak v Srl	Galle	1999-2000
28	GD McGrath	Aus v Win	Perth	2000-01
29	Harbhajan Singh	Ind v Aus	Kolkata	2000-01
30	Mohammad Sami	Pak v Srl	Lahore	2001-02
31	JJC Lawson	Win v Aus	Bridgetown	2002-03
32	Alok Kapali	Ban v Pak	Peshawar	2003
33	AM Blignaut	Zim v Ban	Harare	2003-04
34	MJ Hoggard	Eng v Win	Barbados	2003-04
35	JEC Franklin	NZl v Ban	Dhaka	2004-05
36	IK Pathan	Ind v Pak	Karachi	2005-06
37	RJ Sidebottom	Eng v NZl	Hamilton	2007-08
38	PM Siddle	Aus v Eng	Brisbane	2010-11
39	SCJ Broad	Eng v Ind	Nottingham	2011
40	Sohag Gazi	Ban v NZl	Chittagong	2013-14
41	SCJ Broad	Eng v Srl	Leeds	2014
42	HMRKB Herath	Srl v Aus	Galle	2016
43	MM Ali	Eng v SAF	The Oval	2017
44	JJ Bumrah	Ind v Win	Kingston	2019
45	Naseem Shah	Pak v Ban	Rawalpindi	2020
46	KA Maharaj	SAF v Win	Gros Islet	2021

Notes: Allom, Petherick and Fleming did the hat-trick on debut. The second Trumble and the Griffin hat-tricks were in the final Test of these players. The Walsh, Hughes and Lawson hat-tricks involved two innings. Matthews did the hat-trick in each innings. Petherick has the most expensive innings analysis of somebody doing the hat trick (3 for 103). Largest total to include a hat-trick is 537 by Pakistan at Rawalpindi, 1994-95. Least number of career Test wickets for a bowler doing a hat- trick is 6 by Alok Kapali. Zoysa’s hat-trick was from the first three balls he delivered in the Test Pathan took his hat-trick in the first over of the Test.

KA Maharaj became the fifth bowler to perform the hat trick against West Indies. The following table lists all these five bowlers

No	Bowler	Team	Opp	Ground	Season
1	DG Cork	Eng	Win	Manchester	1995
2	GD McGrath	Aus	Win	Perth	2000-01
3	MJ Hoggard	Eng	Win	Barbados	2003-04
4	JJ Bumrah	Ind	Win	Kingston	2019
5	KA Maharaj	SAF	Win	Gros Islet	2021