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Hat-trick is one of the biggest feats for a bowler. To take three wickets in successive deliveries requires a lot of consistence and concentration. One cannot afford to get perturbed while running in to bowl successive wicket-taking deliveries. Travour brings to you all details of hat-tricks in Cricket World Cup 2007.
Very few bowlers have had the privilege of claiming hat-tricks in Cricket World Cups. This area is still quite unexplored, as far as World Cups are concerned. In the ninth edition of this quadrennial event, bowlers had a golden chance of claiming hat-tricks and registering their names among the best in the world.
There have been just five instances of hat-tricks in Cricket World Cups till date. The first one is in the name of Indian Chetan Sharma. In an India-New Zealand game at Nagpur during Cricket World Cup 1987, Sharma claimed the wickets of Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield, all bowled in a brilliant fashion. Sharma has not been a very famed cricketer, but he will always be remembered for this marathon feat of his.
The second hat-trick in World Cup Cricket came when Pakistan spinner Saqlain Mushtaq claimed the wickets of Zimbabweans Henry Olonga (stumped), Huckle (stumped) and Mbangwa (lbw), at The Oval during the 1999 Cricket World Cup.
Chaminda Vaas of Sri Lanka also performed a hat-trick by pocketing three Bangladeshi wickets at Pietermaritzburg during a game of Cricket World Cup 2003. Similarly, Australian Brett Lee picked three Kenyan wickets at Durban in the same tournament.
And Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga took four consecutive wickets in World Cup 2007 against South Africa.
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