HMRKB Herath performed the hat trick in the ongoing second test against Australia at Galle to provide the 42^nd occasion of a bowler performing the hat trick in the annals of test cricket. The list includes the hat tricks performed by TJ Matthews who had accomplished the feat in  both innings of the test. His feats are separately counted as two hat tricks. The following table list all the 42 hat tricks in chronological order

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 RSA	P 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	Aus v RSA	Manchester	1912
9	TJ Matthews	Aus v RSA	Manchester	1912
10	MJC Allom	Eng v NZl	Christchurch	1929-30
11	TWJ Goddard	Eng v RSA	Johannesburg	1938-39
12	PJ Loader	Eng v Win	Leeds	1957
13	LF Kline	Aus v RSA	Cape Town	1957-58
14	WW Hall	Win v Pak	Lahore	1958-59
15	GM Griffin	RSA 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	1999-00
27	Abdul Razzaq	Pak v Srl	Galle	1999-00
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

HMRKB Herath became the second Sri Lankan bowler to perform hat trick in a test after DNT Zoysa. DNT Zoysa had performed the feat against Zimbabwe at Harare in 1999-00

No	Bowler	Match	Ground	season
1	DNT Zoysa	Srl v Zim	Harare	1999-00
2	HMRKB Herath	Srl v Aus	Galle	2016

HMRKB Herath became the ninth bowler to perform the hat trick against Australia. The nine bowlers list is furnished below

No	Bowler	Match	Ground	season
1	W Bates	Eng v Aus	Melbourne	1882-83
2	J Briggs	Eng v Aus	Sydney	1891-92
3	JT Hearne	Eng v Aus	Leeds	1899
4	LR Gibbs	Win v Aus	Adelaide	1960-61
5	CA Walsh	Win v Aus	Brisbane	1988-89
6	D Gough	Eng v Aus	Sydney	1998-99
7	Harbhajan Singh	Ind v Aus	Kolkata	2000-01
8	JJC Lawson	Win v Aus	Bridgetown	2002-03
9	HMRKB Herath	Srl v Aus	Galle	2016