thumb|right|210px|alt=Lasith Malinga tossing a cricket ball at practice|[[Sri Lanka national cricket team|Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga is the only cricketer to have taken three ODI hat-tricks.]]

A hat-trick in cricket is when a bowler takes three wickets on consecutive deliveries, dismissing three different batsmen. It is a relatively rare event in One Day International (ODI) cricket with only 52 occurrences in over 4800 matches since the first ODI match between Australia and England on 5 January 1971. The first ODI hat-trick was taken by Pakistan's Jalal-ud-Din against Australia in Hyderabad, Sindh, in September 1982. The most recent player to achieve this feat is Dilshan Madushanka of Sri Lanka against Zimbabwe in August 2025.

The only bowler to have taken three ODI hat-tricks is Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga. Five other bowlers Pakistan's Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq, Sri Lanka's Chaminda Vaas, New Zealand's Trent Boult and India's Kuldeep Yadavhave taken two hat-tricks in the format. Vaas is the first and only bowler to claim a hat-trick on the first three balls of any form of international cricket; he achieved the feat against Bangladesh during the 2003 World Cup. Malinga is the only player to claim four wickets in consecutive balls; he achieved the feat against South Africa in the 2007 World Cup. Four players have taken a hat-trick on their ODI debuts: Bangladesh's Taijul Islam against Zimbabwe in 2014, South Africa's Kagiso Rabada against Bangladesh in 2015, Sri Lanka's Wanindu Hasaranga against Zimbabwe in 2017, and Sri Lanka's Shehan Madushanka against Bangladesh in 2018. India's Chetan Sharma was the first cricketer to take a hat-trick in a World Cup match. Eleven hat-tricks have been taken in World Cup matches.

Pakistan's Wasim Akram and Mohammad Sami are the only players to have taken hat-tricks in ODIs and Tests. Brett Lee (Australia), Lasith Malinga, Thisara Perera, Wanindu Hasaranga (all 3 from Sri Lanka) and Kagiso Rabada are the only players to have taken hat-tricks in ODIs and Twenty20 matches.

Hat-tricks

thumb|[[Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium is involved in both most number ODI of hat-tricks (5) as well as most number of hat-tricks by debutants (3)]]

Key

{| class="wikitable"

! Symbol

! Meaning

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| border="1" style="background:#def;" | <sup>W</sup> || Hat-trick taken in a World Cup match

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| border="1" style="background:#ffc;" | <sup>D</sup> || Hat-trick taken by a debutant player

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| (b) || Bowled

|-

| (c) || Caught

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| (c & b) || Caught and bowled

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| (lbw) || Leg before wicket

|-

| (st) || Stumped

|-

| || Wicket-keeper

|}

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="font-size:85%"

|-

|+List of Hat-tricks in One Day Internationals

! No. !! ODI No. !! Bowler !! For !! Against !! class="unsortable" | Wickets !! Venue !! Date !! class="unsortable" | Ref.

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| 1. ||

!scope="row"| Jalal-ud-Din

|| || ||

  • Rod Marsh (b)
  • Bruce Yardley (c Wasim Bari)
  • Geoff Lawson (b)

|| Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad ||

||

|-

| 2. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Bruce Blair (c Greg Matthews)
  • Ervin McSweeney (c Allan Border)
  • Stu Gillespie (b)

|| Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney||

||

|- style="background:#def;"

| 3. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Ken Rutherford (b)
  • Ian Smith (b)
  • Ewen Chatfield (b)

|| Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur || <sup>W</sup>

||

|-

| 4. ||

!scope="row"| (1/2)

|| || ||

  • Jeff Dujon (b)
  • Malcolm Marshall (b)
  • Curtly Ambrose (b)

|| Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah ||

||

|-

| 5. ||

!scope="row"| (2/2)

|| || ||

  • Merv Hughes (b)
  • Carl Rackemann (b)
  • Terry Alderman (b)

|| Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah ||

||

|-

| 6. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Roshan Mahanama (c Kiran More)
  • Rumesh Ratnayake (lbw)
  • Sanath Jayasuriya (c Sanjay Manjrekar)

|| Eden Gardens, Calcutta ||

||

|-

| 7. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Ravi Shastri (lbw)
  • Mohammad Azharuddin (lbw)
  • Sachin Tendulkar (lbw)

|| Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah ||

||

|-

| 8. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Kapil Dev (b)
  • Salil Ankola (b)
  • Nayan Mongia (b)

|| McLean Park, Napier ||

||

|-

| 9.||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Chris Harris (b)
  • Chris Pringle (b)
  • Richard de Groen (b)

|| Buffalo Park, East London ||

||

|-

| 10. ||

!scope="row"| (1/2)

|| || ||

  • Grant Flower (c Moin Khan)
  • John Rennie (c Moin Khan)
  • Andy Whittall (c Saleem Malik)

|| Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar ||

||

|-

| 11. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Nick Knight (c&nbsp;Andy Flower)
  • John Crawley (lbw)
  • Nasser Hussain (c Andy Flower)

|| Harare Sports Club, Harare ||

||

|-

| 12. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Ijaz Ahmed (c Ian Healy)
  • Mohammad Wasim (c Ian Healy)
  • Moin Khan (c Mark Taylor)

|| Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne ||

||

|- style="background:#def;"

| 13. ||

!scope="row"| (2/2)

|| || ||

  • Henry Olonga (st Moin Khan)
  • Adam Huckle (st Moin Khan)
  • Pommie Mbangwa (lbw)

|| The Oval, London|| <sup>W</sup>

||

|-

| 14. ||

!scope="row"| (1/2)

|| || ||

  • Stuart Carlisle (cSuresh Perera)
  • Craig Wishart (lbw)
  • Tatenda Taibu (lbw)

|| Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo ||

||

|-

| 15. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Ridley Jacobs (lbw)
  • Corey Collymore (b)
  • Cameron Cuffy (b)

|| Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah ||

||

|- style="background:#def;"

| 16. ||

!scope="row"| (2/2)

|| || ||

  • Hannan Sarkar (b)
  • Mohammad Ashraful (c&b)
  • Ehsanul Haque (c Mahela Jayawardene)

|| Pietermaritzburg Oval, Pietermaritzburg ||

||

|- style="background:#def;"

| 17. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Kennedy Otieno (b)
  • Brijal Patel (c Ricky Ponting)
  • David Obuya (b)

|| Kingsmead, Durban || <sup>W</sup>

||

|-

| 18. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Abdul Razzaq (c Marcus Trescothick)
  • Shoaib Akhtar (c Chris Read)
  • Mohammad Sami (b)

|| The Oval, London||

||

|-

| 19. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Mohammad Kaif (c Geraint Jones)
  • Lakshmipathy Balaji (c Andrew Flintoff)
  • Ashish Nehra (c&b)

|| Trent Bridge, Nottingham ||

||

|-

| 20. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Ian Bradshaw (b)
  • Daren Powell (b)
  • Corey Collymore (lbw)

|| Kensington Oval, Barbados||

||

|-

| 21. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Tafadzwa Mufambisi (c Khaled Mashud)
  • Elton Chigumbura (lbw)
  • Tawanda Mupariwa (c Khaled Mashud)

|| Harare Sports Club, Harare ||

||

|-

| 22. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Michael Hussey (b)
  • Brett Lee (lbw)
  • Brad Hogg (b)

|| Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai ||

||

|-

| 23. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Cameron White (c Craig McMillan)
  • Andrew Symonds (c Brendon McCullum)
  • Nathan Bracken (b)

|| Bellerive Oval, Hobart ||

||

|- style="background:#def;"

| 24. ||

!scope="row"| (1/3)

|| || ||

  • Shaun Pollock (b)
  • Andrew Hall (c Upul Tharanga)
  • Jacques Kallis (c Kumar Sangakkara)
  • Makhaya Ntini (b)

|| Providence Stadium, Georgetown || <sup>W</sup>

||

|-

| 25. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Denesh Ramdin (b)
  • Ravi Rampaul (lbw)
  • Sulieman Benn (b)

|| Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet ||

||

|-

| 26. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Ravindra Jadeja (lbw)
  • Praveen Kumar (b)
  • Zaheer Khan (c Kumar Sangakkara)

|| Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla ||

||

|-

| 27. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Prosper Utseya (c Naeem Islam)
  • Ray Price (lbw)
  • Christopher Mpofu (lbw)

|| Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur ||

||

|- style="background:#def;"

| 28. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Pieter Seelaar (lbw)
  • Bernard Loots (lbw)
  • Berend Westdijk (b)

|| Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi||

||

|- style="background:#def;"

| 29. ||

!scope="row"| (2/3)

|| || ||

  • Tanmay Mishra (lbw)
  • Peter Ongondo (b)
  • Shem Ngoche (b)

|| R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo || <sup>W</sup>

||

|-

| 30.||

!scope="row"| (3/3)

|| || ||

  • Mitchell Johnson (b)
  • John Hastings (lbw)
  • Xavier Doherty (b)

|| R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo ||

||

|-

| 31.||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Thisara Perera (c Michael Hussey)
  • Sachithra Senanayake (lbw)
  • Nuwan Kulasekara (lbw)

|| Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne ||

||

|-

| 32.||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Younis Khan (c Kumar Sangakkara)
  • Shahid Afridi (c Dinesh Chandimal)
  • Sarfraz Ahmed (c Mahela Jayawardene)

|| R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo ||

||

|-

| 33.||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Kevin Pietersen (lbw)
  • Jonathan Trott (c Aaron Finch)
  • Joe Root (c Shane Watson)

|| Sophia Gardens, Cardiff ||

||

|-

| 34.||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Corey Anderson (b)
  • Brendon McCullum (c Shamsur Rahman (sub))
  • Jimmy Neesham (c Mushfiqur Rahim)

|| Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur ||

||

|-

| 35.||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Quinton de Kock (c Tendai Chatara)
  • Rilee Rossouw (c John Nyumbu)
  • David Miller (lbw)

|| Harare Sports Club, Harare ||

||

|- style="background:#ffc;"

| 36. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Tinashe Panyangara (b)
  • John Nyumbu (lbw)
  • Tendai Chatara (b)

|| Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur || <sup>D</sup>

||

|- style="background:#def;"

| 37. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Brad Haddin (c Stuart Broad)
  • Glenn Maxwell (c Joe Root)
  • Mitchell Johnson (c James Anderson)

|| Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne ||

||

|- style="background:#def;"

| 38. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Angelo Mathews (c Faf du Plessis)
  • Nuwan Kulasekara (c Quinton de Kock)
  • Tharindu Kaushal (lbw)

|| Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney || | <sup>W</sup>

||

|- style="background:#ffc;"

| 39.||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Tamim Iqbal (b)
  • Litton Das (c Farhaan Behardien)
  • Mahmudullah Riyad (lbw)

|| Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur || <sup>D</sup>

||

|-

| 41. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Asela Gunaratne (c Soumya Sarkar)
  • Suranga Lakmal (c Mustafizur Rahman)
  • Nuwan Pradeep (b)

|| Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla ||

||

|- style="background:#ffc;"

| 42.||

!scope="row"|

|| ||||

  • Malcolm Waller (b)
  • Donald Tiripano (lbw)
  • Tendai Chatara (b)

|| Galle International Stadium, Galle || <sup>D</sup>

||

|-

| 43.||

!scope="row"| (1/2)

|| ||||

  • Matthew Wade (b)
  • Ashton Agar (lbw)
  • Pat Cummins (c MS Dhoni)

|| Eden Gardens, Kolkata ||

||

|- style="background:#ffc;"

| 44. ||

!scope="row"|

|| || ||

  • Mashrafe Mortaza (c Kusal Mendis)
  • Rubel Hossain (b)
  • Mahmudullah (c Upul Tharanga)

|| Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur || <sup>D</sup>

||

|-

| 45. ||

!scope="row"|

|| ||||

  • Sean Williams (st Heinrich Klaasen)
  • Peter Moor (lbw)
  • Brandon Mavuta (b)

|| Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein ||

||

|-

| 46.||

!scope="row"| (1/2)

|| || ||

  • Fakhar Zaman (b)
  • Babar Azam (c Ross Taylor)
  • Mohammad Hafeez (lbw)

|| Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi ||

||

|- style="background:#def;"

| 47.||

!scope="row"|

|||| ||

  • Mohammad Nabi (c Hardik Pandya)
  • Aftab Alam (b)
  • Mujeeb Ur Rahman (b)

|| The Rose Bowl, Southampton|| <sup>W</sup>

||

|-

|- style="background:#def;"

| 48.||

!scope="row"| (2/2)

|||| ||

  • Usman Khawaja (b)
  • Mitchell Starc (b)
  • Jason Behrendorff (lbw)

|| Lord's Cricket Ground, London|| <sup>W</sup>

||

|-

| 49.||

!scope="row"| (2/2)

|| ||||

  • Shai Hope (c Virat Kohli)
  • Jason Holder (st Rishabh Pant)
  • Alzarri Joseph (c Kedar Jadhav)

|| ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam ||

||

|-

| 50.||

!scope="row"|

|| ||||

  • Colin Ackermann (st Clive Madande)
  • Teja Nidamanuru (b)
  • Paul van Meekeren (b)

|| Harare Sports Club, Harare ||

||

|-

| 51.||

!scope="row"|

|| ||||

  • Nathan Smith (c Kamindu Mendis)
  • Matt Henry (c Nuwanidu Fernando)

|| Seddon Park, Hamilton ||

||

|-

|-

| 52.||

!scope="row"|

|| ||||

  • Brad Evans (c Asitha Fernando)
  • Richard Ngarava (b)

|| Harare Sports Club, Harare || ||

|}

By team

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"

|+ODI hat-tricks by team

!scope="col" |Team

!scope="col" |Hat-tricks

! No. of bowlers

|-

!scope="row"|

| 11 || 8

|-

!scope="row"|

| 8 || 6

|-

!scope="row"|

| 6 || 6

|-

!scope="row"|

| 5 || 5

|-

!scope="row"|

| 5 || 4

|-

!scope="row"|

| 4 || 4

|-

!scope="row"|

| 4 || 4

|-

!scope="row" |

| 4 || 3

|-

!scope="row"|

| 3 || 3

|-

!scope="row"|

| 2 || 2

|-

!Total|| 52 || 45

|}

By bowler

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"

|+Bowlers with multiple ODI hat-tricks

! Bowler !! Hat-tricks

|-

!scope="row"|

|style="text-align:center" rowspan="1"|3

|-

!scope="row"|

|style="text-align:center" rowspan="5"|2

|-

!scope="row"|

|-

!scope="row"|

|-

!scope="row"|

|-

!scope="row"|

|}

By type of bowling

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"

|+ODI hat-tricks by type of bowling

!scope="col" |Bowling type

!scope="col" |Hat-tricks

!scope="col" |Sub-type

!scope="col" |Hat-tricks

!scope="col" |Bowlers

|-

| rowspan="2" | Fast bowling || rowspan="2" | 40 || Right-arm fast || 31 || Jalal-ud-Din, Chetan Sharma, Kapil Dev, Aaqib Javed, Danny Morrison, Waqar Younis, Eddo Brandes, Anthony Stuart, Mohammad Sami, Brett Lee, James Anderson, Steve Harmison, Charl Langeveldt, Shahadat Hossain, Jerome Taylor, Shane Bond, Lasith Malinga (3), Andrew Flintoff, Farveez Maharoof, Kemar Roach, Dan Christian, Thisara Perera, Clint McKay, Rubel Hossain, Steven Finn, Kagiso Rabada, Taskin Ahmed, Shehan Madushanka, Mohammed Shami

|-

| Left-arm fast || 9 || Bruce Reid, Wasim Akram (2), Chaminda Vaas (2), James Faulkner, Trent Boult (2), Dilshan Madushanka

|-

| rowspan="4" | Spin bowling || rowspan="4" | 12 || Off spin || 6 || Saqlain Mushtaq (2), Prosper Utseya, JP Duminy, Wessly Madhevere, Maheesh Theekshana

|-

| Leg spin || 2 || Wanindu Hasaranga, Imran Tahir

|-

| Left-arm orthodox spin || 2 || Abdur Razzak, Taijul Islam

|-

| Left-arm unorthodox spin || 2 || Kuldeep Yadav (2)

|-

!scope="row"| Total || 52 || || 52 ||

|}

By ground

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"

|+Grounds involved in multiple ODI hat-tricks

! Ground !! Hat-tricks

|-

! scope=row| Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur

| rowspan=2| 5

|-

! scope=row| Harare Sports Club, Harare

|-

! scope=row| R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

| rowspan=2| 4

|-

! scope=row| Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah

|-

! scope=row| Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne

|3

|-

! scope=row| Eden Gardens, Kolkata

| rowspan=4| 2

|-

! scope=row| Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney

|-

! scope=row| The Oval, London

|-

! scope=row| Dambulla Cricket Stadium, Dambulla

|}

See also

  • List of Test cricket hat-tricks
  • List of Twenty20 International cricket hat-tricks
  • List of women's international cricket hat-tricks

Notes

A. Last three wickets of the innings

B. Aaqib Javed ended with 7–37, then the best bowling figures in an ODI.

C. Four wickets in five deliveries

D. First three wickets of the innings

E. Vaas took 8–19; this is the only time () that a bowler has taken eight wickets in an ODI.