Son Of Coco
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Inspired by the other thread related to real cricketers, does anyone have any stories of closely missed hattricks during their own cricket 'careers'?
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Closely Missed Amateur Hattricks
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Son Of Coco
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I'll start.
Back in 2002 I'd headed off to play in the UK with my first hattrick under my belt from the season just finished out here in Australia. It was taken against Broadbeach in the Gold Coast comp, and I'd finished with 10 for the match as well, so it was a good couple of Saturdays. I thought I'd got 4 from 4 balls, nailing the next bloke in plumb in front, but it wasn't given.
Anyway, went off to Plymouth to play in the English summer and in one of our mid-season matches the opportunity arose to get the Southern/Northern hemisphere hattrick double in the same year. I can't remember how the first 2 bats were dismissed, but the next bat in edged their first ball from a good length around off straight to the wicketkeeper. It went through at the perfect catching height, hit the keeper in the stomach, and dropped to the ground.
My celebration turned from "YEEAA..." to "**** me...", and a deathly quiet enveloped the ground for quite a few overs after Irongloves ****ed it completely.
Back in 2002 I'd headed off to play in the UK with my first hattrick under my belt from the season just finished out here in Australia. It was taken against Broadbeach in the Gold Coast comp, and I'd finished with 10 for the match as well, so it was a good couple of Saturdays. I thought I'd got 4 from 4 balls, nailing the next bloke in plumb in front, but it wasn't given.
Anyway, went off to Plymouth to play in the English summer and in one of our mid-season matches the opportunity arose to get the Southern/Northern hemisphere hattrick double in the same year. I can't remember how the first 2 bats were dismissed, but the next bat in edged their first ball from a good length around off straight to the wicketkeeper. It went through at the perfect catching height, hit the keeper in the stomach, and dropped to the ground.
My celebration turned from "YEEAA..." to "**** me...", and a deathly quiet enveloped the ground for quite a few overs after Irongloves ****ed it completely.
Line and Length
International Coach
When I made my debut for our local club in the 60s I had only had a couple of practice sessions and was selected for our 2nd XI (we only had 2 teams then). After 5 overs I had taken 1 for 5. My 6th over (8 ball overs then) went 1 2 . w w drop . drop. (I kept copies of score cards of my significant games). The first drop was at point - a "dolly" as I recall - the second a sharp chance at short leg.
My only hat trick came in 1990. I had lost a lot of pace and was, again, in our 2nd XI. We were playing six ball overs by then. I had gone wicketless for 12 overs (conceding just 13 runs). Somewhat annoyed at being hit for 6 to start my 13th over, I found an extra yard and had the offender caught behind. Next ball was a repeat dismissal and the hat trick completed with an lbw. I finished with 4-25 off 18 overs that day.
My only hat trick came in 1990. I had lost a lot of pace and was, again, in our 2nd XI. We were playing six ball overs by then. I had gone wicketless for 12 overs (conceding just 13 runs). Somewhat annoyed at being hit for 6 to start my 13th over, I found an extra yard and had the offender caught behind. Next ball was a repeat dismissal and the hat trick completed with an lbw. I finished with 4-25 off 18 overs that day.
Blenkinsop
U19 Captain
I got three wickets in a season once, if that counts?
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
Man you’d think he’d still bowl the delivery though
Chin Music
International 12th Man
I have taken wickets with consecutive balls plenty of times but simply don’t remember being that close to getting a hat trick in terms of a very near miss.
Back in the gloriously erratic summer of 1987, I was on the verge of a second hat-trick in a too-short career. The third ball was perfect in length and line (more likely, it was as bad as most of my deliveries.) The batter hoicked it to cow corner when the fielder at deep mid-wicket had wandered in too far. The ball landed beyond him and, yes, where he had been asked to stay!
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Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Fairly sure I should have gotten an LBW one of two times I was on a hattrick. But in bottom grade club cricket you accept from the outset you don't get LBWs, except the odd very plumb one.
Coronis
Hall of Fame Member
Just invite Joel Wilson for a beer
thierry henry
International Coach
There's a guy in our club team who plays as a batsman/sometimes wicket keeper and doesn't bowl. Funnily enough he was apparently a gun representative level off-spinner as a kid but gave up cricket in his teens, and never really picked up bowling again when he started playing again in his 20s.
In 100+ games for us he has only bowled 3-4 times and on all bar one occasion his floaty nude off-breaks have taken a pumping. However, on one occasion he was given a bowl in a game where we were cruising to victory, and immediately found himself on a hattrick. He asked all the field to come in close, and then the hattrick ball was lobbed painfully over my head...clearly uncatchable, but definitely a teaser that would've been straight to a regulation mid-on. He still jokes about when I "dropped his hattrick" and I laugh along but tbh it annoys me because I think he's almost started to believe it's true.
We also had a guy take a triple hattrick, 5 in 5 balls. Must be exceedingly rare. The bloke bowls nothing but slowish, full in-swingers and tbf to him he is pretty accurate with them. The first wicket was lbw (given by a player umpire) and the next 4 were all bowled. Apparently the umpire was copping it for the next week from teammates for daring to give the first bloke out, as if the next 4 balls didn't indicate that it might have been on target.
In 100+ games for us he has only bowled 3-4 times and on all bar one occasion his floaty nude off-breaks have taken a pumping. However, on one occasion he was given a bowl in a game where we were cruising to victory, and immediately found himself on a hattrick. He asked all the field to come in close, and then the hattrick ball was lobbed painfully over my head...clearly uncatchable, but definitely a teaser that would've been straight to a regulation mid-on. He still jokes about when I "dropped his hattrick" and I laugh along but tbh it annoys me because I think he's almost started to believe it's true.
We also had a guy take a triple hattrick, 5 in 5 balls. Must be exceedingly rare. The bloke bowls nothing but slowish, full in-swingers and tbf to him he is pretty accurate with them. The first wicket was lbw (given by a player umpire) and the next 4 were all bowled. Apparently the umpire was copping it for the next week from teammates for daring to give the first bloke out, as if the next 4 balls didn't indicate that it might have been on target.