Hat-tricks at 10, 17 and 31: Pat Cummins jokingly recalls milestones across career

Australia pacer Pat Cummins picked up his first-ever T20I hat-trick while playing Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup 2024. Cummins’ brilliance late in the first innings, helped Australia restrict Bangladesh to just 140 runs, at least 30 below the par total. The Australian fast bowler was asked about previous hat-tricks in his career, and Cummins joked that the last to came when he was still playing junior cricket. Speaking at the press conference after the Australia vs Bangladesh Super 8 game, Cummins said that the last two times he picked up a hat-trick was at the ages of 10 and 17.

Cummins laughed while recalling those memories and said that his hat-trick at 17 was pretty much the same as how things unfolded today against Bangladesh.

“I think I got one in grade cricket, maybe fourth grade. And I think I got one in second XI when I was 17. And I think the hat trick ball was similar. It was the first ball of the last day when it was Joe Burns. And I went to bowl a slower ball and he ducked underneath it and it hit the bail on the full. So yeah, not too dissimilar to today’s,” Cummins said at the post-match press conference in Antigua.

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Cummins picked up the wickets of Mahmudullah and Mahedi Hasan in the 18th over, before getting the hat-trick in the first ball of the final over of the Bangladesh innings. Cummins’ hat-trick helped Australia restrict Bangladesh to 140 runs. David Warner’s 53 would then help Australia secure the win in the match that was affected by rain before being called off in the end as the Aussies secured a 28-run win via DLS method.

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The fast bowler said that he was unaware about picking up the hat-trick but Marcus Stoinis came running in towards him and reminded him of the feat.

“You give me too much credit because no, I didn’t know I was on a hat-trick. I did the previous over, I saw it come up on the screen and by the time my next over came around I totally forgot about it. So, I think Stoinis ran in from the deep, was cheering and I was like, oh yeah, forgot about that. So, yeah, nice one,” Cummins said.

Australia dominated the proceedings from start to end as they beat Bangladesh in the rain-curtailed game. Australia will face Afghanistan and India in their next two matches in Super 8.

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