On this day in 1879, Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth dismissed three English batsmen with consecutive deliveries at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to complete Test cricket's first "hat-trick".

Most football fans will understand what is meant when a player is said to have scored a hat-trick, but what are the roots of the word? Scoring goals is the chief aim of any striker, but there is a ...

Dimitar Berbatov and Nwankwo Kanu have scored two of the Premier League's greatest hat-tricks Getty Images Eberechi Eze made history in the north London derby on Sunday. Not only was his hat-trick the ...

You may have noticed that the 2023-24 Premier League season was blessed with what feels like an inordinately high number of hat tricks scored. In April alone we witnessed three top-flight trebles in ...

Irfan Pathan is mobbed by his team-mates after taking a hat-trick in the first over of the 2006 Karachi Test AFP The article is presented in three parts. In the first, I present tables created using ...

You may have noticed that the 2023-24 Premier League season was blessed with what feels like an inordinately high number of hat tricks scored. Despite spending just two seasons as a Premier League ...