leg spinner jimmy matthews is the only bowler to have taken a hat-trick in both innings of test match.
who is only bowler to have taken a hat-trick in both innings of test match?
leg spinner jimmy matthews
a player has taken two hat-tricks in the same test match only once. playing for australia against south africa in the first match of the 1912 triangular tournament at old trafford, manchester, england, leg spinner jimmy matthews took a hat-trick in south africa's first and second innings, both taken on 28 may 1912. he completed both hat-tricks by dismissing south africa's tommy ward. only three other cricketers have taken more than one test hat-trick: australian off spinner hugh trumble (two years apart, between the same teams at the same ground), pakistani fast bowler wasim akram (just over a week apart, in consecutive matches between the same teams) and english fast bowler stuart broad. three players have taken a hat-trick on their test debut: english medium pace bowler maurice allom in 1930, new zealand off-spinner peter petherick in 1976, and australian pace bowler damien fleming in 1994. geoff griffin took the fewest total test wickets of any player who recorded a hat-trick, taking only eight wickets in his entire test career. during the match in which he took his hat-trick, griffin was repeatedly called for throwing by the umpires and never bowled again in a test match. australian peter siddle is the only bowler to take a hat-trick on his birthday, and bangladeshi off spinner sohag gazi is the only player to score a century and take a hat-trick in the same test match.
list of test cricket hat-tricks
after playing in one test match against the south african team on a stopover when returning from england to australia, trumble retired from test cricket, aged 35. when australia lost to the english tourists in the first test in sydney in 1903–04, trumble was persuaded to return for the second test under the captaincy of noble. he was immediately successful taking 4 wickets for 107 runs in the first innings and 5 for 34 in the second, but was unable to prevent england from winning the test by 185 runs selected for the remaining four tests, his 24 wickets in four tests made trumble the most successful australian bowler in the series. the writer roland perry described trumble's final test match as "the most dramatic and memorable farewell performance ever by a bowler". in front of his home town supporters in melbourne, he took 7 wickets for 28 runs, including a hat-trick, to bowl australia to victory; "wisden" describing his bowling in the second innings as "practically unplayable". the hat-trick, his second in test cricket, consisted of the dismissals of bernard bosanquet, plum warner and dick lilley on 7 march. he went on to take the wicket of ted arnold, ending the match and his career in international cricket.
hugh trumble